A woman has received a jail sentence of three months for the manslaughter and neglect of a newborn baby that she put in a bin after giving birth.

Three years of the sentence were suspended for a period of three years by Justice Eugene O'Kelly who said it was a "sad and tragic" case with

the woman's "grave" actions meaning her baby girl was "left to die by the one and only person who knew of her birth".

However, when handing down the sentence, the judge said that the woman, now 23, had herself acknowledged that "she has to live with consequences of what she has done and what she has failed to do for the rest of her life", in a letter handed up to the court.

He said her actions went "so much against the natural instincts of any parent", but that there was little risk of her reoffending.

A new Family Planning scandal is erupting in China, this one taking place in Quanzhou, Guangxi Province.

In September 1989, a boy was born to a couple with six previous children, father Deng Zhen Sheng and mother Tang Yue Ying. Soon after the boy was born, Family Planning paid a visit to the family and assessed a fine of 6,000 yuan, and the family was given 15 days to pay the fine. The family put together and paid 1,380 yuan, all they had. Family Planning then confiscated some furniture and other possessions of the family.

Nearly a year later, in August 1990, Ms. Gao Li Jun, head of the Quanzhou Family Planning office, tricked the family into bringing the boy to the her office, even sending a driver to the family’s village to pick them up. While in the Family Planning office, the boy garnered the attention of the Family Planning leader. Ms. Gao invited the family to her house for dinner. While eating, she tried to talk them into allowing her to find a rich family to adopt their son, since they were poor. “No,” the husband angrily replied, “who wants to adopt my son? I won’t give my son to anyone.” The subject was dropped.

After dinner, Ms. Gao arranged for a room for the family at a hostel across the street from the Family Planning office. Ms. Gao told them to not leave the room. Less than an hour later, five “comrades” from Family Planning broke into the room where the mother, daughter, and the son were (the father had gone to the market). They took the boy.

The family attempted for years to retrieve the boy, asking for information about their son. Ms. Gao repeatedly told them that when he turned 30 he would return to them.

How I tracked down the mother who left me in a Romanian orphanage...by a TV actress who was brought to safety by a British couple and educated privately here. So what happened when she confronted her past?

Surveying the derelict building, once a notorious Romanian orphanage where hundreds of infants were left starving in bare metal cots, actress Ionica Adriana was moved to tears.

With her northern British accent and her private education, you'd never guess that this orphanage was part of her own heart-breaking history.

But it was here, in a fly-infested room closely packed with other unnaturally silent, nappy-less and filthy infants, that Ionica spent the first two and a half years of her life.

She was one of the lucky ones. In the grimmest of life's lotteries, Ionica was picked for adoption by a couple who each ran a business in rural North Yorkshire and were struggling to have children of their own. As an uncomprehending toddler, she went from the harshest deprivation — even of food and water — to wanting for nothing.

Romania caught between opposing demands of EU and NATO

8 apr. 2002 (updated: 29 jan. 2010)

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The US Congress could hamper Romania’s bid to join NATO unless the country lifts its moratorium on child adoptions. Romania banned international adoptions of children in June 2001 under pressure from the EU that condemned the practice as human trafficking.

The US Mission in Brussels has sent a letter to the Commission, arguing that many families in the US want to adopt Romanian children. The note warns that a continued moratorium on adoptions would “create potential problems in our Congress at the time of congressional debates on Romania’s candidacy for Nato accession”.

La Roumanie tiraillée entre les exigences opposées de l’UE et de l’OTAN

8 apr. 2002 (mis à jour: 29 jan. 2010)

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Le Congrès des Etats-Unis pourrait entraver l’adhésion de la Roumanie à l’OTAN si le pays ne lève son moratoire sur les adoptions d’enfants. La Roumanie a interdit l’adoption d’enfants en juin 2001 sous la pression de l’UE qui comparait cette pratique à du trafic d’êtres humains.

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Véronique and Jean-Noël Piaser adopted a Sri Lankan baby in 1985. In 2018, they discovered that the little orphan had in fact been stolen from her mother. A huge shock. After a careful investigation, they decided to file a complaint this Friday.

The Piaser couple had two boys of around ten when they decided to adopt a child. In 1985, two-week-old Maria entered their lives. But 33 years later, in 2018, when she wants to find her biological parents, the family discovers the unthinkable. Maria was stolen from her Sri Lankan mother by mobsters. The young woman and her adoptive and natural parents were victims of a sector known in Sri Lanka as a "baby business".

The Piaser couple discovered it before their daughter. Anticipating the trip, to save time in the process, they ask a Sri Lankan friend to start the research. " We gave him the adoption file, which was only 6 or 7 pages long, explains Véronique Piaser . He began to inquire (…) and called us back to tell us: it's a baby business" .

"We must tell him about this disaster"

“ There everything collapses!” Continues the adoptive mother. To tell her child: the circumstances of your adoption were villainous and we were cheated. It's super difficult, because we love him and he is our girl. And at the same time, you have to tell her about this catastrophe .

Justice Chagla was informed by advocates Gauraj Shah and Mahesh Chitnis that their client had approached the HC to probate the Will of her deceased adoptive father in February 2022

However, in the absence of an adoption deed or the consent of her biological father for the adoption, the application for probation of the Will in favour of the 70-year-old was not allowed

Mumbai Stating that if there are other documents which can sufficiently establish the claims of adoption, then an adoption deed or documents showing consent of biological parent is not needed, the Bombay high court (HC) accepted photographs and wedding invitation cards of a 70-year-old woman as proof of her adoption.

The single-judge bench of justice R I Chagla was hearing a testamentary petition of the senior citizen, who was adopted by the deceased testator in 1954 and had sought a declaration that she was the heir of the deceased. However, the Prothonotary and Senior Master had refused to probate the Will as the deed of adoption or consent of her biological father for the adoption was not available.

Justice Chagla was informed by advocates Gauraj Shah and Mahesh Chitnis that their client had approached the HC to probate the Will of her deceased adoptive father in February 2022. However, in the absence of an adoption deed or the consent of her biological father for the adoption, the application for probation of the Will in favour of the 70-year-old was not allowed.

After Andrea Kelley and her husband adopted their first child from Ethiopia in 2000, she set out on a mission to fill in the missing pieces of her son’s history by finding his mother. After thousands of hours and dollars spent, Andrea had no luck. So she created the Beteseb Felega – Ethiopian Adoption Connection organization in 2014 to help other family members and adoptees find resources to complete their history.

Andrea operates the organization full-time in Shawnee, Kansas, and has grown the Beteseb Felega – Ethiopian Adoption Connection to feature a database and new DNA project in order to help others navigate searches and provide post-adoption services.

DESCRIBE YOUR VOLUNTEER ROLE WITHIN BETESEB FELEGA – ETHIOPIAN ADOPTION CONNECTION.

I started Beteseb Felega – Ethiopian Adoption Connection after a 10-year failed search for the mother of one of my children born in Ethiopia because we didn’t have enough information in our adoption paperwork to find the family. I founded and now run the organization from my home office in Kansas City. I manage and coordinate our team of three social workers from different parts of Ethiopia and I specifically work with adult adoptees and adoptive parents who want to search for their birth family in Ethiopia. I also handle all the administrative work for the organization including running the website and our Ethiopian Adoption Search Registry Database.

The organization now provides access to birth and adoption histories for Ethiopian adoptees. We want to restore the history and relationships that have been lost through international adoption. It’s a basic human right that is sometimes overlooked in the adoption process because it’s commonly believed that children will have a better life after being adopted. I realized that if Ethiopian birth families could reach out and search for their children, there would be a higher likelihood of success for everyone. That’s why I created our Ethiopian Adoption Search Registry in 2014 — to give a voice to Ethiopian birth families.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court while dealing with a case of adoption of an unborn

child, held that no such provision as to give effect to adoption of an unborn child is

envisaged under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956.

The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 does not envisage an agreement

to adopt a child, who is not yet born.

ALLOUEZ, Wis. — Tara DeGrave has been working for the past 16 years to help people choose the right parenting plan for them.

That includes adoption.

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