A Perth couple who were accused of abusing their adopted daughter and making her sleep in a shipping container have been found guilty by a jury.

After a 10-day trial, the jury retired to deliberate on Thursday and returned with a guilty verdict late on Friday afternoon.

The couple were found guilty on two separate charges of deprivation of liberty, and having control and care of a child and engaging in conduct that could result in the child’s suffering.

The guilty verdict comes after the jury heard the girl, who along with her parents cannot be identified for legal reasons, told a child protection worker her adoptive parents beat her with a metal pipe and tennis racket and cut her hair off.

The girl said on more than one occasion, her mother dragged her out of the house and beat her with a metal pipe.

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Herman Bolhaar (@NL Rapporteur) tweeted at 8:49 pm on Mon, Jun 24, 2019:

Minister @SigridKaag commissioned an investigation into orphanage tourism. The structure for the investigation was established in close consultation with my agency; we are on the advisory committee. It is important that this research comes to better protect vulnerable children. https://t.co/5RNu8YWPXx

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Herman Bolhaar (@NLRapporteur) tweeted at 8:49 pm on Mon, Jun 24, 2019:

Volunteering and orphanage tourism abroad

Do you want to do volunteer work in a developing country? Top! It is important that Dutch people come into contact with other cultures and commit themselves to another. But prepare well and avoid involvement in projects that are harmful to vulnerable groups.

It happens regularly: Dutch people who are committed to a private development project. Or Dutch young people doing an internship or volunteering abroad. Well-known destinations are Cambodia, India, Philippines, Nepal, Kenya, Suriname, Uganda, Zambia and South Africa.

Volunteering in orphanages in particular is popular, but often has (unintended) negative consequences. The Dutch government does not recommend volunteering in orphanages.

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Wesley Mathews, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of causing injury to Sherin.

Wesley Mathews, the adoptive father of Sherin Mathews – the three-year-old who was found dead in a Texas culvert in 2017 – has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in his sentence. At his trial for murder, which happened on Monday, Wesley pleaded guilty on charges of causing injury to the child by omission. This charge comes with a lighter sentence than capital murder and tampering with evidence – the other charges against him.

Wesley, who hails from Kerala, had been charged with capital murder after his special needs adoptive daughter was found dead. If he is convicted under this charge, he faces the possibility of a life sentence without parole. However, having pled guilty to first-degree injury to a child by omission, Wesley may get probation or life imprisonment with possibility of parole after three decades.

His guilty plea was apparently not a deal with the prosecutors or a bargain.

Wesley and his wife Sini, who were natives of Kerala, adopted Sherin from an orphanage in Bihar in July 2016. Sherin disappeared in October 2017, and Wesley initially claimed that he had sent her out in the wee hours of the morning on October 6 that year as punishment for not drinking her milk. On October 22, 2017, Sherin’s body was recovered from a culvert under a road about a kilometre from the Mathews’ home. The cause of Sherin’s death could not be investigated as the body had decomposed.

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Redactie 12-11-09, 11:00 Laatste update: 30-03-17, 09:10 Bron: degelderlander

A young girl claims she was beaten, abused and made to sleep in a shipping container for at least four months by her adoptive parents, a court has heard.

The Perth couple at the centre of the claims appeared in the WA District Court on Thursday, pleading not guilty to charges including deprivation of liberty and having control and care of a child and engaging in conduct that could result in the child’s suffering.

The girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was adopted from the Phillipines by the couple after suffering an abusive childhood at the hands of her biological father and stepmother.

The couple had three biological children of their own and another adopted daughter, aged 12, when the young girl was taken into the family’s Busselton home.

The court heard the alleged victim had trouble adapting to her new life, and her behaviour took a turn for the worse when the family moved from their home in the South West to a property in Mundijong.