GOOGLE TRANSLATION:
Dozens of Spaniards had 'bought' children in a network of illegal adoption in Romania
The organization operates three months ago and receives about three million by Adopted
JAVIER Sampedro - Madrid - 01/11/1996
10 votes Vote Result
A telephone number circulating in Bucharest mouth to ear among Spanish couples wishing to adopt a child. If stakeholders demonstrate their creditworthiness, a couple of trips to the Romanian capital are sufficient to return home in three months with a child in the arms, including Romanian passport. The adoptive parents can choose from a wide range whose prices, according to age and aesthetic preferences, ranging from two to four million pesetas. The Spanish ambassador in Bucharest said: "There are adoptions, this is clearly an illegal trafficking of children."
The case has been reported to this newspaper by J. G. P. and F. R. S., 37 and 36 years, one of the couples from Madrid who started preparations but decided not used after his apparent understanding of illegality. The complainants claim that at least 50 couples have already acquired Spanish Romanian children in this way, and that dozens more are in full trámite. The ambassador in Bucharest, Antonio Ortiz, confirmed yesterday the existence of child trafficking and stressed its illegality, and Spain and Romania have signed the Hague Convention for the Protection of Children, which sets strict criteria for international adoptions. "But unfortunately, children are being sold in Bucharest" Ortiz says, "is enormously worrying."
A few months ago, J,. G. P. and F. R. S. decided to adopt a child outside of Spain, a growing practice due to demographic imbalances, and were prepared to deal with the paperwork, which typically last several years. But another couple in a similar situation persuaded them to follow a shortcut: "In Romania can be achieved in three or four months," they claimed. "We give you the phone."
As he was told, J. G. P. marked the number of Bucharest and asked for a lawyer named Eliana. The Romanian, who spoke Spanish, asked him first of all who had given him the phone. J. G. P. he said. Once verified that that name was on their list of past clients, Eliana proceeded to the next step in the protocol: "You must send its payroll, a certificate of assets and writing of their properties." So did the hombre.Unas weeks later, they called for them to travel to Bucharest. The Romanian them housed in a small urban apartment, to 16,000 pesetas each night, in which there were at least three other couples in Spain. Gave them a form to fill out: boy or girl, what age and other preferences. During the three-day stay, a guide who spoke Castilian taught the city in charge of the organization.
"The next day," says J. G. P., "led us to a kind of orphanage. We agree there with two other couples. As we had asked for girls, four girls taught us to choose from, some blonde, some brunette, some months, another one and a half years." According to the election, those responsible are identified prices, which ranged between two and four million pesetas.
At that time the adoptive returning to Spain while the organization manages the roles of the child, according to J. G. P. always in the same court in Bucharest. A couple of weeks later, the couple returns to the Romanian capital with the money, necessarily in cash and in dólares.Pasaporte rule
Once the payment, the organization delivers the child to the couple, along with a certificate of adoption issued by the said court, a birth certificate and a Romanian passport in order. Those responsible to advise couples who do not go in no time at the Spanish Embassy in Bucharest.
"In recent years," says a document from the Directorate General for Children and the Family, "have increased adoption practices contrary to the fundamental rights of children: pressures on parents for abandoning her children, sale of children, Missing Children ... It was subsequently adopted child trafficking. "Avoiding these practices is the aim of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Children recently signed by 63 countries, including Spain and Romania. The agreement governs a demanding process for international adoptions, which should always start by counseling for Social Affairs of each Autonomous Community. After their adventure Romanian, J. G. P. and F. R. S. ended up choosing this path, slowly but legal.
Decenas de españoles han 'comprado' niños en una red de adopción ilegal en Rumania