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The Commission has asked the country’s apex body on adoption, the Central Adoption Resource Authority, for data on children who are returned after adoption.

NEW DELHI: Worried at the rising instance of adopted children being surrendered, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has decided to carry out a fact- finding exercise to understand whether the problem lies in the regulations, implementation or with the adoptive parents.

The Commission has also asked the country’s apex body on adoption, the Central Adoption Resource Authority, for data on children who are returned after adoption.

There were about 4,000 in-country and inter-country adoptions of orphaned or surrendered children in India last year. Many of the children who were eventually returned had special needs.

“It has been decided to study such surrendering of children as such situations not only result in trauma to the children but also shake their faith in the institution of family,” a senior official in the NCPCR said.

Bathinda, October 17

The minor pregnant rape victim has given birth to a baby girl at Women and Children Hospital here. A day after the delivery, the newborn was handed over to the District Child Welfare Committee.

The mother and the infant are healthy after a normal delivery that took place two days ago at the hospital. The infant weighs around 3.8 kg which is a sign of a healthy baby, said a doctor.

Sukhjinder Singh Gill, Senior Medical Officer, Women and Children Hospital, Bathinda, said, “Since both mother and infant were healthy, the latter has been handed over to the District Child Welfare Committee on family members’ request. Now, they will follow up the process of child’s adoption further.”

Talking to Bathinda Tribune, Ravneet Sidhu, District Child Protection Officer, said, “Since the newborn has been surrendered by the mother and her family, she will be under observation for two months at the child adoption agency. Thereafter, we will seek approval for her adoption from the local court before the process of adoption can be initiated. It seems that adoption will take a few months. During the two-month period, parents or family members of the baby can claim the child after which (if they don’t) we will initiate the process of adoption.”

Bathinda, October 17

The minor pregnant rape victim has given birth to a baby girl at Women and Children Hospital here. A day after the delivery, the newborn was handed over to the District Child Welfare Committee.

The mother and the infant are healthy after a normal delivery that took place two days ago at the hospital. The infant weighs around 3.8 kg which is a sign of a healthy baby, said a doctor.

Sukhjinder Singh Gill, Senior Medical Officer, Women and Children Hospital, Bathinda, said, “Since both mother and infant were healthy, the latter has been handed over to the District Child Welfare Committee on family members’ request. Now, they will follow up the process of child’s adoption further.”

Talking to Bathinda Tribune, Ravneet Sidhu, District Child Protection Officer, said, “Since the newborn has been surrendered by the mother and her family, she will be under observation for two months at the child adoption agency. Thereafter, we will seek approval for her adoption from the local court before the process of adoption can be initiated. It seems that adoption will take a few months. During the two-month period, parents or family members of the baby can claim the child after which (if they don’t) we will initiate the process of adoption.”

For the first time, we are hearing from some of the pregnant Marshallese women who are part of a far-reaching adoption fraud scheme allegedly run by Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen.

Seven Marshallese mothers and their multiple young children, crammed into two east valley apartments. They're pregnant and alone, caught in the middle of an international adoption scandal.

"After the incident took place they're wondering how are they going to be fed, and get all the other needs," said the women through a translator.

With the help of a local pastor who translated their words, the women expressed the abandonment they feel after Paul Petersen's promises amounted to lies.

"They were promised that it would be an open adoption, until they're children are 18, that their kids will come here and grow up in the United States and be able to provide for their families back home," said the women.Words that couldn't be further from the truth. As roaches crawl across the floor, the women talk about running out of food and money. Their thoughts constantly returning to their unborn children.

April 2019

Reactivation of the India-Australia intercountry adoption program

Australia is reactivating the India-Australia intercountry adoption program using a careful, staged approach.

During the initial stage of the reactivation, two jurisdictions – Queensland and Northern Territory (NT) – will be assessing a small number of people and forwarding files of suitable applicants to the Indian adoption authority for consideration and action.

The remaining state and territory governments will monitor processes and be guided by key learnings before determining their future involvement.

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AHMEDABAD: Continuing probe of the child-bride (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/child-bride) sale incident, a video

of which had gone viral pushing the social justice department to act, has revealed that the 10-year-old’s father was a jobless

labourer. His desperation for money to feed his family was exploited by a village agent who arranged a ‘marriage’ of his

daughter, against Rs 50,000, to a 37-year-old Ahmedabad man. A team from Ahmedabad city women’s crime branch had on

Tuesday raided a house in Asarwa, rescued the girl and sent her to a women’s protection home in Odhav. Hadad police is

During the course of the investigation, hundreds of children have lost out on their education as several of them were sent back to their poverty-ridden lives

Exonerating Muslim orphanages in Kerala of child trafficking charges going back to 2014, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a closure report in the Ernakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate Court.In the report submitted to the court, CBI has stated that parents and guardians of minor children had insisted that they had sent their children to Kerala hoping that they would get educated, free food and other facilities free of cost. In the report, they have stated that “no kind of exploitation was noticed by any witness”.The sensational case saw the Railway Police detaining 589 children — who had arrived in two trains from Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal —in May 2014 at the Palakkad Junction railway station. All the detained children were from extremely poor families and the majority of them did not have documents to prove their identity. However, some of the children had identity cards of Mukkam Muslim Orphanage in Kozhikode.Even when the children had been detained, the orphanage authorities had stated that some of these children were orphans and some others were there with parental permission as they were sent to Kerala hoping that they would get better education and care. The Kerala State Minority Commission said insisted then that no trafficking was involved.It was then alleged by a few child rights activists and Central agencies that it was a case of child trafficking as none of them possessed the mandatory documents such as admission papers and certificates related to birth, age, income. Eight persons too had been arrested in the case and were released on bail only nine months later.When the case did not make much progress, the Kerala High Court ordered a CBI investigation into the multi-state case in July 2015. After fours years, it has been found that it was a false alarm and a case of persecution of Muslim orphanages due to the prevailing anti-Muslim rhetoric.The case shook political circles in Kerala after the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) had alleged ‘prejudice’ while filing the FIR. Former Kerala BJP president and the current MoS Parliamentary Affairs V Muraleedharan was one of the first to demand a CBI enquiry. Even the then Union minister for women and child development Maneka Gandhi had said it was a clear case of child trafficking and she had sought a report from the state government, which was then headed by Congress-backed United Democratic Front (UDF).During the course of the investigation, CBI officials found that Idris Alam, one of the cooks at an orphanage, had admitted his daughter and son at Mukkam Muslim Orphanage and Manassery Muslim orphanage respectively in Kozhikode. His wife was also working in the orphanage as a cleaner. During their summer vacations when they went back to Bihar and Jharkhand, their neighbours and relatives, who are all daily wage labourers, requested the couple to take their children as well since most of them had at least seven children each.

MADURAI: A lady doctor, charged with illegally selling a child born at her clinic, will not face criminal trial now, as Madras high

court (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/madras-high-court) has spared her of the ‘ordeal of trial’ citing four-year delay in

the complaint by the child’s biological mother.

Since a new mother, J Selva Rani, could not pay delivery charges of Rs 18,000 to the hospital in Dindigul district

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dindigul-district), she had to leave the new-born behind at the hospital to arrange for