Odyssey of a gesture of love.

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I am the lucky father of a child adopted now over two years ago. I'm not going to tell you about the first. Ours was a difficult adoption that lasted three years, during which emotions often took over, but in the end we managed to adopt this child from Romania.

We see Francesco for the first time on a photocopy of a photo sent by fax, one day in April 2000 at the Rome office of the Association we had contacted.

Francesco, they say, is the child highlighted by the cross, because he is photographed together with a companion, and he has a balloon in his hand.

The founder of the Prometeo Association does not stop in the fight against pedophilia.

Guest of Costanzo's broadcast he tells the drama of the children of Bucharest and the Romanian government meets urgently.

"I saw children growling in orphanages"

Those in Bergamo who followed him in his meetings on the children of Bucharest and on pedophilia are used to his strong and blunt sentences, contained with difficulty, just enough for the message to arrive. And yesterday afternoon even the viewers of Buona Domenica had to leave the fun of the festive afternoon for a moment to receive the "punch in the stomach" that Massimiliano Frassi, founder of the Prometheus Association against pedophilia in Bergamo, launched through the cameras. Guest of Maurizio Costanzo, for the second time, after the one at the Maurizio Costanzo Show, he described in a way so real as to seem surreal, the images he saw years ago in Bucharest and last time only 15 days ago. To Costanzo's statement: “Before Romania can enter Europe it would have to deal with 50. 000 children living in the sewers of Bucharest ”he urged“ Italy then has to deal with its primacy of sex tourists ”. An outlet for the charter flights that in his meetings he said also depart from Bergamo for Bucharest, for Thailand and for other countries where it is easy to find a desperate child to turn into a lover. And often in AIDS patients. “At the Bucharest station I saw an eight-year-old girl with some street educators approaching, they loaded her into the car and raped her. When we approached to take her away they told us "Go ahead, tomorrow other children will be taken away and no one knows what will happen to them". Then Frassi brought the cold to the television studio accustomed to welcoming serious stories, yes, but above all entertainment and serenity. "I've seen children in orphanages growl, left in their excrements, ”he said, his eyes shining, but above all full of anger. Those who in Bergamo who follow him know, due to the obstacles he had when he sought a seat for his association, those of a sense of powerlessness compared to the numerous cases of pedophilia that have been reported to him. And perhaps even when the attention rises to become tension on some stories, and then falls when the moment passes. “Those children remain there waiting for someone to take them away - continues the president of Prometeo - if they can resist. And if they are lucky to find someone to welcome them. " Just as it happened for six boys that Costanzo hosted yesterday, who on the documents are 17 or 18 years old, but who in the faces, in the body still as children and in the ability to express themselves much less. They were adopted by Italian families from Ravenna or Taranto. They resumed living, eating after having fed on cockroaches for a long time, having forgotten how to eat, how to feed, both their body and their emotions. Together with a doctor, Costanzo and Frassi have undertaken the commitment to follow them, to re-educate them in nutrition, including the emotional one. The next appointment is between two Sundays.

Others, however, did not make it, they weren't so lucky. "I saw them, I saw kids kissing you good night by opening the lid of a manhole - continues Frassi - underneath is their house". In the photos that are broadcast and that were taken in Bucharest, those houses can be seen: “Here it is, what you see in the garbage is not a garbage bag, but a child. He sleeps in the sewers, which are real sewers. I went down too, I saw their "rooms", but the children are still safe there. It turns out that I am no longer. " Frassi lived all this and even if only for a few minutes many other people through his words, which convey the same emotion, anger pity and bewilderment also in the book he wrote "Children from the sewers of Bucharest" - a journey into the last circle of violated childhood ". On the cover one of them, breathing glue from a bag. So for a few minutes you forget everything. All.

A Dutch court is to be asked to lift the statute of limitation on a legal action in which 19 women aim to sue the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in the Netherlands for allegedly holding them against their will as forced labour.

The Catholic congregation has previously refused to engage with claimants on the basis that action was time-barred. However, subpoenas have now been served on the order for a hearing in which the judges will be asked to use their discretion to lift the statute and allow the full case to be aired.

The basis of the application will be that the women – all of whom are now in their 70s or 80s – were deliberately traumatised during their incarceration in order to ensure their compliance and, as a result, were psychologically incapable of taking the action for most of their lives.

The Sisters of the Good Shepherd ran homes all over Europe, as well as in Canada and Australia, where women and girls were allegedly forced into lives of abuse after being incarcerated, often with the agreement of their parents or sometimes even child protection organisations, up to the 1970s.

Some of the most notorious abuse took place at the Magdalene laundries in Ireland, for which then taoiseach Enda Kenny issued an apology on behalf of the State in February 2013. A €50 million compensation scheme was set up for survivors among the 30,000 women they had incarcerated.

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Fiom stands for freedom of choice in the event of an unwanted pregnancy and the right to parentage information. The current Fiom organization originated from many predecessors and has existed since 1930.

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Due to the substantial cutbacks and the transition in healthcare, Fiom is developing as a specialist on unwanted pregnancy and parentage questions. Fiom is committed to the right of freedom of choice for pregnant women and the right to parentage information.

Online support, such as on unwanted pregnancy and abortion processing, is becoming more important because the offline help has decreased. External funding is being sought to continue to provide offline help. The amendment by Voortman below was adopted in December 2013 with broad support from the Lower House.

“ This amendment serves as an additional impetus to provide information to teens about pregnancy and to support the decision on whether to continue the pregnancy through neutral decision-making discussions. This amendment therefore regulates a targeted increase of EUR 1,000,000 for this target group and this task, without linking it to one specific institution. In consultation with the institutions that carry out the aforementioned tasks, further criteria will be drawn up for the use of these resources in such a way that more parties can make use of these resources. "

After months of probing damning allegations of fraud in the European Commission, the investigators deliver their verdict today. In an exclusive extract from his book L'Europe des Fraudes, Jean Nicolas, the man who exposed the worst scandal in the history of the EU, traces one man's web of corruption

'I offered to lend him £10,000 to buy an automatic car, a loan secured only on his word. To justify this expense, I arranged a contract for his wife in Software (one of my offshore companies) for three months. I paid this from the company's agreed profit margin with the commission.' This, described in his own words, was Claude Perry's system. It was a network of interlocking favours: a commission official in trouble is helped with a loan that need never be repaid, through a fictitious job for the official's wife in an offshore company whose only job is to work for the commission.

This is also how the man who triggered Europe's worst fraud scandal infiltrated department after department of the commission, building up favours to become its biggest sub-contractor. And this is the system of fraud, operated with the knowledge and connivance of commission officials, that launched the biggest scandal ever to hit the commission and its European ideal.

Now, his house and office are confiscated, his bank accounts blocked and his car is sold for cash. These days he travels by public bus. Still, there is a large villa in Canada, in the name of Perry's former wife, and a network of offshore companies.

The unravelling of Perry's extraordinary story began last July when a German magazine colleague in Brussels called me and said he had heard that an internal commission fraud inquiry into the misuse of some £2 million of its humanitarian budget had been passed to the Luxemburg police. They had started to interview Claude Perry and wanted to question Hubert Onidi, the official in charge of ECHO (European Commission Humanitarian Office).

The series " Adopted " opens on Monday (9), from 7:20 pm, at Investigation Discovery and should thrill viewers a lot.

Recorded in Israel, the series addresses the adoption of Brazilian children by Israeli families in the 1980s and 1990s

who, currently, between the ages of 30 and 40, are trying to nd out who their biological parents are.

This is the rst season of the series and has 7 episodes. Each is 25 minutes long and tells two different stories. All

the stories were told by the characters themselves and have the complementary support of experts and authorities

Eight Walloon officials from the French Community know today whether they risk a prison sentence for covering up adoption fraud in Congo for years. The federal prosecutor's office is convinced that they knew that “orphans” from Kinshasa who were adopted by Belgian parents were actually kidnapped. The pivotal figure is lawyer Julienne Mpemba (47) who ran the orphanage for years.

The Belgian parents of the Congolese adopted children are flocking to the Dinant justice building today. For the first time they come face to face with those who offered them a stolen child as an orphan ...

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The Supreme Court on February 10, 2020 issued notice to the Government of Jharkhand on a plea filed by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) alleging selling of children in the charity homes run by the Missionaries of Charity. The Commission, being a statutory body, approached the top court in their capacity as parens patriae of the aggrieved children.

The petition, filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, 1949 states that it “seeks to draw attention” of the Court towards “the callous approach of the State of Jharkhand in protecting children from child rights violation.”

NCPCR, in its plea seeks a court-monitored probe through the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to look into the workings of such organisations in a time-bound manner. Through the plea filed by advocate Swarupama Chaturvedi, the Commission also prays for directions to set up an SIT not only in Jharkhand, but in every state.

It has been alleged that despite "shocking revelations" which were made by victims during inquiry that children were being sold in homes were "emphatically brought" to the notice of the state government, "continuous attempts were made to sabotage and derail the inquiry". The petitioner further informs that it took suo motu cognizance of media reports, specifically one in Indian Express dated 06.07.2018 according to which a Sister from Missionaries of Charity was arrested for alleged illegal child trade. In light of other media reports about irregularities in the charity homes run by the organisation set up by Mother Teresa, the Commission informs that it wrote to the state authorities, recommended they initiate inquiry, but their responses regarding inquiry and findings thereof were unsatisfactory. NCPCR also claims that they wrote to various other states seeking information regarding the work of Missionaries of Charity, but responses remained unsatisfactory.

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DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. — A West Chicago couple is finally back together with their family after they were stranded in India while picking up their adoptive daughter.

The couple was stuck in India for 21 days while their two other children were waiting for them back in Illinois.

“We’re very excited to be home, a little tired, but we’re glad to be home,” Chris Santa Maria said.

“Basically we got there March 1. We were moving along with the adoption paperwork and then in the middle of it this lockdown occurs and everything shuts down. Once the lockdown came in, we weren’t able to travel at all,” Chris said.