A HISTORY OF THE ETHIOPIAN ADOPTION

When in 2017, Zahara Jolie-Pitt's biological mother tries to get in touch with her daughter, this is the outcry. One tears up: between those who proclaim loudly that she wants money and those who insist that she remains her legitimate mother, the mother insists to make it clear that she does not want money or her child but just spend some time with her.

This story could inspire many adopted children whose parents are unknown or dead, even though most of them are naturally frustrated by the brutal separation of intercountry adoption.

But unfortunately, from their complexes, another arises, bigger and more formidable than that of not knowing: to be used for pecuniary purposes.

Because unfortunately, despite all the information circulating about the seemingly endless growth of Ethiopia, its booming economy is not adapting to the Ethiopian people, who are still without the Internet, facing drought and a terrible recurrence of famine - almost usual.

Three cases registered; five people arrested; two babies handed over to orphanages

Investigations into the abduction of an infant outside Mahim railway station in June have uncovered a racket of selling babies, with two more cases being registered with the Mumbra and Khandeshwar police. While the agents remain the same, the seller and purchaser are different in every case.

On June 26, a two-month-old baby, who was sleeping with his twin brother and parents on the pavement outside Mahim station, was stolen after midnight. Around 2 a.m., when the mother found the baby missing, the family approached the Government Railway Police in Dadar.

Senior inspector Prasad Pandhre and team found the baby and arrested kidnapper Shahbaz Shaikh (26). Since the case came under the jurisdiction of the Mahim police, the case was transferred to them along with the accused.

An officer from Mahim police station said, “On interrogation, Mr. Shaikh revealed that he was promised ?25,000 for providing a baby boy to one Raju and Sujata in Panvel. He was to meet them near Panvel railway station, but they did not turn up. So we nabbed them at their residence and later, they were arrested.”

Legal experts have said the Attorney General's advice to the Government that it is unconstitutional to give adopted people unrestricted access to their birth information is "incorrect".

Earlier this month, Katherine Zappone wrote to adoption rights stakeholders about the paused Adoption Information and Tracing Bill, advising them that it was the Attorney General's view that it is "constitutionally unacceptable to allow unrestricted access to birth information for adopted people".

However, a legal opinion signed by nine legal experts - including three specialising in Constitutional Law and the current special rapporteur on child protection Dr Conor O'Mahony - has been sent to Ms Zappone advising her that this view is "incorrect".

Under the legislation, Tusla will attempt to locate and contact both natural parents as soon as an adopted person requests access to their own early life and adoption files.

Where the natural parent does not consent to the release of the information, both parties will make their case before the Adoption Authority of Ireland.

Mother told police that she had been told the child had died

The Halasuru police registered an FIR against doctors and staff of a private hospital for allegedly giving a 17-day-old baby girl for adoption illegally without the consent of her mother. The police were able to track down the couple that had ‘adopted’ the baby and will be booking a case against them, too.

The mother, a post-graduate in computer application, approached the police on Saturday seeking their help. “She said that her mother told her the baby had died, after which she was subsequently discharged from the hospital. We questioned the hospital staff, tracked down the baby and reunited her with the mother,” said a senior police officer.

The incident was brought to the notice of the NGO Parihar, where a counsellor helped the mother file a complaint with the police seeking legal action. According to the police, the mother is 23 years old and unmarried. She was admitted to a private hospital in Cambridge Layout on November 13 for the delivery. However, the grandmother was upset and feared that the family would be ostracised. “She went behind her daughter’s back and told the doctors that they did not want the baby. We suspect she took money from the hospital to give up the child. The baby was then handed over to a childless couple for adoption without due process,” said a senior police officer.

“However, on Saturday, a hospital staff informed the woman that her baby was alive, after which she came to us,” said a police source.

Mother told police that she had been told the child had died

The Halasuru police registered an FIR against doctors and staff of a private hospital for allegedly giving a 17-day-old baby girl for adoption illegally without the consent of her mother. The police were able to track down the couple that had ‘adopted’ the baby and will be booking a case against them, too.

The mother, a post-graduate in computer application, approached the police on Saturday seeking their help. “She said that her mother told her the baby had died, after which she was subsequently discharged from the hospital. We questioned the hospital staff, tracked down the baby and reunited her with the mother,” said a senior police officer.

The incident was brought to the notice of the NGO Parihar, where a counsellor helped the mother file a complaint with the police seeking legal action. According to the police, the mother is 23 years old and unmarried. She was admitted to a private hospital in Cambridge Layout on November 13 for the delivery. However, the grandmother was upset and feared that the family would be ostracised. “She went behind her daughter’s back and told the doctors that they did not want the baby. We suspect she took money from the hospital to give up the child. The baby was then handed over to a childless couple for adoption without due process,” said a senior police officer.

“However, on Saturday, a hospital staff informed the woman that her baby was alive, after which she came to us,” said a police source.

The stories shocked and horrified the world: babies left malnourished in their cribs, sickly children starved to the bone, toddlers beaten and humiliated.

At the violent conclusion of the Romanian Revolution in 1989, an estimated 170,000 children were living in state-run institutions across the country. By 2001 — the year the country placed a moratorium on international adoptions — the number had dropped to 60,000.

It was in Romania that the Bucharest Early Intervention Project was born — an extensive, involved study comparing the outcomes of institutionalized children who were placed in foster homes by researchers early on in their lives to children who remained in institutional care.

For almost two decades, a University of Maryland professor and his two colleagues have followed the participating children. And, thanks to a recently awarded $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, the team is preparing to check in with the kids for the seventh time, now that they’re 21.

“We want to know where these kids are now and how are they dealing with becoming adults,” said Nathan Fox, a professor in this university’s human development and quantitative methodology department. “Do they have jobs, have they gone to school, are they using drugs, are they married? No one knows the effects of institutionalization on all those different domains of development.”

KOLKATA: The detective department has busted a gang of traffickers who prepared fake adoption papers of children aged

between two and five and finally pushed them into flesh trade as they turned into teenagers. Cops have rescued two girls aged

— three and 13 — and have traced two more — aged below five — in the Burtolla region who had fallen prey to this gang. One

person, identified as Rituraj Singh (24), has been arrested.

“We came to know of the gang from a 22-yerar-old girl from Agra. Adopted by the racket run by Rituraj and his parents — Pinki

A baby Indian girl from Bihar has been adopted by a Swedish couple. The young child had previously been abandoned by her parents.

Swedish couple adopted a baby Indian girl who had been abandoned by her parents. The adoption officially went through on Thursday, November 28, 2019.

The child, named Garima, had been living in a Child Protection Unit in Saran, Bihar after she was rejected by her parents sometime in May 2019.

All procedures of the court were completed to entrust the Swedish couple with the girl who had been living in the adoption centre.

The couple flew to India to pick up their seven-month-old adopted child.

Bhubaneswar: Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR) chairperson Sandhyabati Pradhan Friday emphasised that every child has the right to get a family with healthy environment. She was addressing a programme on Adoption Awareness Month-2019 organised by State Adoption Resource Agency and Odisha State Protection Society of Women and Child Development and Mission Shakti department here. Friday.

The objective of the programme is to promote and familiarise the adoption process. The district child protection officers, chief functionaries of specialised adoption agency and children’s home, adoptive parents with children were present in the programme. This apart, representatives from Governing Body of SARA and executive committees of OSCPS also participated in the programme. Three posters on adoption were unveiled on the occasion. A signature campaign was carried out by the guests and participants to promote adoption and create awareness. Some saplings were planted during the inaugural session.

Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR) chairperson Sandhyabati Pradhan, ICDS & Social Welfare director and OSCPS director Aravind Agrawal, Women and Child Development advisor Sulata Deo and Odisha State Council for Child Welfare member secretary Quamar Sultana Begum graced the occasion.

Begum highlighted that legal option is the best way to adopt a child and steps should be taken to stop the illegal adoption.

Sulata Deo emphasised on the objectives of the programme. Adoption is a noble work so everybody should follow the legal provision under Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 and Adoption Regulation, 2017.

A United Nations special rapporteur has again called for a full-scale inquiry into the scale of forced and illegal adoptions that occurred in Ireland.

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, UN special rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, reiterated her call at an event at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Dublin where she was discussing her report on Ireland.

Friday, November 29, 2019 - 04:26 PM

A United Nations special rapporteur has again called for a full-scale inquiry into the scale of forced and illegal adoptions that occurred in Ireland.

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, UN special rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, reiterated her call at an event at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Dublin where she was discussing her report on Ireland.