A magistrate considered certain of the facts alleged against the association Le Rayon de soleil de l'enfant alien to be time-barred, but she agreed to investigate the offense of concealment of fraud.

A Parisian investigating judge has been investigating since mid-April the complaint of seven French people denouncing their adoption in Mali, organized according to them fraudulently by an authorized association, Agence France-presse (AFP) learned on Friday May 26 from a close source. folder. This complaint with the constitution of a civil party, after a first simple complaint filed by the Paris prosecutor's office, targets the association Le Rayon de soleil de l'enfant alien (RSEE), and a former local manager, Danielle Boudault, for acts, revealed by Le Monde , which allegedly occurred between 1989 and 1996, which concern children born in Mali between 1984 and 1993.

The complainants accuse the association and its former manager of having “duped the Malian biological parents (…) and the French adoptive parents” . After long procedural disputes, a Parisian magistrate ruled on April 17 that part of the alleged facts were time-barred, but she agreed to investigate the offense of concealment of fraud.

Abandoned children at the airport, defrauding adoptive parents: the Belgian government was aware of abuses surrounding adoptions from South Korea in the 1970s, according to archive documents. Yet nothing was done.

Although the commission’s chairperson acknowledged the probability of the incident and the state’s responsibility, he noted it should be resolved through diplomatic measures

“There does appear to have been some likelihood of harm in the Hà My village incident. It does appear that the state bears some responsibility in connection with that issue. But there is also the potential for restitution for that harm to be received through the courts rather than the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We will move to dismiss [this matter] as not corresponding to the scope of our commission’s investigation subjects.”

As soon as the final statement had been made by Kim Kwang-dong, chairperson of South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a member nominated by the Democratic Party raised an objection.

She fainted from shock when she learned that her son had been adopted to Norway, the South Korean woman wrote to the Ministry of Children and Families. When she did not get an answer, she traveled to Norway.

It was in 2005 that the woman wrote an email to the ministry:

"Please let me - a poor woman living in a life full of tears and regrets - live."

In the email, the 45-year-old woman told how she was forced to divorce her husband.

She thought she was doing the best for her son, by letting him live with his biological father and his family, she writes.

According to a report by Bhilwara police in the court, the woman, a resident of the district, was 17 years old when she gave birth to a girl in August last year

odhpur: A nine-month-old baby was seized from her adoptive parents and returned to her biological mother on the directions of the Rajasthan high court, which observed that the infant was illegally given up for adoption by the woman’s father as he opposed her inter-faith relationship.

“When I gave birth to the child, I was not even told whether it was a boy or a girl. I was not even allowed to see her face. Now that I have got my daughter back, I cannot express my happiness in words,” the infant’s biological mother said.

According to a report by Bhilwara police in the court, the woman, a resident of the district, was 17 years old when she gave birth to a girl in August last year. She had eloped with her Muslim friend and realised she was pregnant after she returned home.

After the minor gave birth, her father, who was against the inter-faith relationship, handed over the infant to a former Child Welfare Committee (CWC) member who, in return, gave it to a childless couple in Mumbai.

A seven-judge Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a decision that the adoption of a teenage girl by her foster mother, against the wishes of her birth mother, is correct.

It followed a majority decision of the Court of Appeal (COA) overturning a June 2022 High Court judgment that found the adoption of the girl, who was 17 at the time, would not serve her best interests.

The girl, who is now a young woman and referred to as Ms B, was born with foetal alcohol syndrome with associated global development delay and a moderate general learning disability.

This syndrome was due to her birth mother drinking alcohol to excess during the first trimester of her pregnancy in order to cope with emotional, physical and sexual abuse by her husband, and not knowing she was pregnant at the time.

The High Court’s Mr Justice Max Barrett had said that, while Ms B indicated a desire to be adopted by her foster mother, who she referred to as “mum”, he was “not entirely persuaded” she fully understood the significance of adoption.

FRANKSVILLE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- On a sunny Wednesday afternoon, Josue Gonzalez, 11, Darwin Gonzalez, 9, and Abraham Gonzalez, 6, happily kick around a soccer ball in a Franksville playground. 

But this simple trip to the park has been more than two years in the making. 

The three brothers spent the last five years living in an orphanage in Ecuador. 

Little did they know, their home would soon be found in Wisconsin.

“When we first found out that we weren’t going to have biological children, adoption was our first choice," Nicole Gonzalez told CBS 58's Ellie Nakamoto-White. 

VISAKHAPATNAM: The waiting period for adoption of a child has been increasing for the prospective adoptive parents (PAPs) with each passing year in Andhra Pradesh. It is taking more than three to four years even for the referrals. For instance, only 90 children were placed for adoption in 2022-23, while thousands of PAPs registered their names for adoption with the 14 specialised adoption agencies of AP. Among the 90 children, 11 were intercountry adoptions. According to officials, more girls are being adopted in recent years, indicating a change in the society.

Speaking to TOI, Andhra Pradesh State Commission for Protection of Child Rights member Gondu Sitaram said that the long waiting period of the PAPs can be attributed to the fact that there are more waiting parents in comparison to a lesser number of children available for adoption in the state. "However, there should be no scope for any illegal adoptions, which may put the children at risk. The guidelines and rules formulated by Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) should be strictly followed for adoptions. Back in 2022, I had reported an illegal adoption case in Visakhapatnam to the police," said Sitaram.

The district children protection officer Ramesh said that the child welfare committee is taking care of these children. "Even for the children surrendered by parents due to financial issues or other problems, there will be a one month waiting period before registering them with CARA for adoptions. The limited number of adoptable children is making the wait longer for the PAPs," said Ramesh.

As per the eligibility criteria for the PAPs set in by CARA, they shall be physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially capable.

They shall not have any life-threatening medical condition. They should not have been convicted in a criminal act of any nature or accused in any case of child rights violation. No child shall be given for adoption to a couple unless they have at least two years of stable marital relationship except in the cases of relative or step-parent adoption.

With final adoption orders stalled in Maharashtra from January 11, about 170 prospective parents have been hit. However, international prospective parents are the worst hit as they have no right to foster

The joy was palpable even over the telephone. A call from a Mumbai-based adoption centre to a city in Europe in September 2022 reduced a couple in their mid-30s into a bundle of hugs and tears of joy. After a painful wait of almost 2.5 years, they were finally going to be parents to a 10-month-old. Giddy with joy, they clicked on an email attachment containing their daughter’s photograph.

The adoption process moved fast after that. In the first week of January, a District Magistrate (DM) concluded the hearing in their case, the penultimate step to adoption. The excited parents-to-be started planning their trip to India but that wasn’t to be.

On January 11, the Bombay HC directed the Maharashtra government not to transfer pending adoption proceedings to DMs, as mandated under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act, 2021. In July 2021, the Rajya Sabha (RS) had passed an Amendment that transferred the power to issue adoption orders from civil courts to the DMs. The Amendment — which aimed to “strengthen” child protection under the JJ (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, and ensure “faster” delivery of adoption cases — was passed despite protests and without any discussion in the RS.

In 2021, Kjersti Toppe (Sp) was called upon to investigate illegal adoptions to Norway. But the organization that asked for an investigation was not even given a meeting.

It was in October 2021, two weeks after Toppe had taken her seat in the minister's office in the Ministry of Children and Families, that she received a letter from the organization Romanticized immigration .

The four-page letter, which VG has seen, had a simple message: Illegal adoptions have taken place in Norway, probably on a larger scale than was known.

Romanticized immigration therefore asked for an independent investigation of Norwegian adoption practices.

The organization also asked for a meeting with Toppe.