MYSURU: District cops have uncovered an illegal adoption racket by cracking three cases in less than two months.

A 60-year-old woman and her 31-year-old daughter were arrested for trafficking two newborns and selling the infants to childless couples in Hassan and Kollegal, while another case is being investigated in HD Kote. The mother-daughter duo had collected Rs 7.5 lakh from the couples adopting unlawfully.

Superintendent of police R Chethan on Wednesday said he suspected there could be more cases of illegal adoptions. “As of now two cases have been unearthed from the mother and daughter. Teams have been formed to dig deep into the illegal racket,” he said.

As of now, cops have not found any similarities in the two cases in Nanjangud. Srimathi aka Saraswathi and her daughter Lakshmi allegedly contacted financially poor new mothers and childless couples, and worked as mediators between them to make money. We suspect the involvement of a staff of a private hospital in Mysuru where both the babies were delivered, the SP added.

Srimathi has allegedly collected Rs 4 lakh from a Hassan couple to give them a baby boy while Rs 3.5 lakh was collected from Kollegal couple for a baby girl. The money has been seized from Srimathi. Mothers may not have been aware of money transactions by Srimathi, the SP stated. Srimathi, a resident of Nanjangud, rents autos and does odd jobs for a living, police said.

The Government has published a new National Adoption Strategy which, it says, "is set to improve adoption services in England by putting in place better recruitment across the country and removing any unnecessary delays, through more training for front line staff, improving approval process and funding for targeted recruitment campaigns".

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that DNA tests cannot

be ordered to establish the legitimacy of a child born during the

subsistence of a marriage if there is no primary evidence of adultery.

A bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari set aside the

orders of a lower court and Bombay high court which had allowed a plea

In 2001, a family discovered a baby in the arms of a young girl and disappeared into thin air The young girl is now 20 years old, and having accepted her as their own, the family still struggles with the adoption process The family narrated their struggle to adopt Rami, who is a special girl, continues

She was only seven days old when they discovered her in 2001. Nancy Amati’s late mom, a teacher, came home to find one of her nieces seated outside the gate and holding another baby she had never seen before. Rami's family: Nancy Amati, Rashma, Rami, Amati (l), Rami and Sylvia (top right), Rami (bottom right). Photo: Nancy Amati. Source: UGC No one knows how the baby ended up in another baby’s arms. “But my mom took the little one in as one of her own as that, to her, was the right thing to do. My youngest sister had just cleared high school. She fell in love with the baby and took care of her like her own, clinic, feeding (cow's milk) and would cuddle the baby in her stomach for the baby not to freeze to death. The child was underweight and helpless. Formula was not even a consideration because of the cost,” Amati told TUKO.co.ke.

They named the little girl Ildiko Rami, meaning “you are loved”. Rami was a special kid Gradually, Amati’s late mom, nicknamed “Angel, " noticed that young Rami was late in hitting some milestones. But her friends quickly dissuaded her and assured her that it was normal. Their late mom adopted her because no one else of legal age in the family was able to. “In preschool and early primary, her excellent mathematical ability as well as outstanding neat handwriting were obvious. At around age seven, she seemed rude, uncooperative and unruly. At first, we would get angry, frustrated with her before we suspected that it might be more than it seemed,” Amati recalled.

Concerned, Amati’s mom took her to the doctor for diagnosis and was informed that Rami needed special education. A school was recommended. READ ALSO 10-Year-Old Girl Hailed as Hero for Getting Family to Safety during Home Invasion On attending, Amati said they discovered that she ended up being used to care for the other special kids as she was not too badly off. But, unfortunately, her condition continued in regression. So, the family decided to pull her out. “My youngest sister, who was by then an adult, wanted to adopt her. Other than loving her, she was in a position to get her the help she needed, better health care, youthful energy as well as a break for mom, who was now retired and taking care of my sick dad. We were introduced to a lawyer who started the adoption process,” Amati told TUKO.co.ke. Seven years later and with lots of money, the adoption ‘went through’, or so they thought.

"It's much later that we learnt that it was all a sham. Meanwhile, both of our parents had passed on, and her regression was steep and rapid. She automatically came into my care. She has been through various tests, scans and all but no doctor so far has been able to tell us what the problem is. Two more lawyers later, no adoption,” Amati said.

The highest number of orphaned children have been recorded in Pune division (106), followed by Konkan division (104), Nashik division (94)

Acting on the Supreme Court’s direction, the state constituted task forces in each district to identify such children and avert their trafficking and illegal adoptions. (HT FILE)

The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed more than 130,000 lives in the state and has severely impacted the lives of the children. In Maharashtra, 15,793 have lost one parent to Covid-19, while nearly 490 have become orphans, revealed the data compiled by the department of women and child development (WCD).

Neelam Navale, 10, contracted Covid-19 in April along with her elder brother, Sunil, 15, and both their parents— Ramakant and Ankita. On April 13, Ramakant’s oxygen saturation dropped to 89% and he was immediately admitted to the district hospital. But he succumbed to the infection within 24 hours. Even before the family could cope up with their loss, Ankita also had to be rushed to the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) on April 15 due to breathlessness. She breathed her last on April 25. It was only in June that the relatives told the children about their parents’ deaths.

“Neelam is too young to understand the loss but Sunil has been left completely traumatised,” said their aunt Renuka Ojha. At present, the children are staying with their uncle in Banaras, Uttar Pradesh.

Notably, Mehboob Masli is the guardian of an 18-year-old Hindu girl, Pooja Vadigeri, who was orphaned a decade ago and has been taken care of by Masli as a father after her own relatives refused to bring her up.

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Notably, Mehboob Masli is the guardian of an 18-year-old Hindu girl, Pooja Vadigeri, who was orphaned a decade ago and has been taken care of by Masli as a father after her own relatives refused to bring her up.

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For years, Ling Dong didn’t want to find his parents. In 1999, he was abducted from Shanghai while his grandmother wasn’t paying attention. At the age of four, he was taken across the country to the southwestern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Like thousands of other Chinese children, he had been trafficked to be sold to childless — or sonless — couples.

But growing up, Ling was told his biological parents had abandoned and sold him. He developed a hatred for them. In recent years, as child abductions have become rare in China, the country’s thousands of victims are trying to find their biological roots aided by a national DNA database. But Ling didn’t feel a need to start searching until, in 2019, his curiosity got the better of him.

The following is his account, which he shared on the condition of using a pseudonym:

I was abducted in the fall of 1999. I only remember being taken to Guangxi by a man, first by train, then by boat, and in the end being carried into the mountains on his back. He used a large leaf to scoop mountain water for me to drink. When I cried, he played hide-and-seek with me and warned that the police would arrest me if I didn’t quiet down.

I arrived at a remote place, where “mom and dad” were waiting for me. There were small rivers, mountains, trees, and chickens and ducks. My original home did not have these things, so I was both scared and curious.

Madurai: Taking into account that there was no column in the application form to declare whether a child is natural or adopted,

Madras high court quashed the letter issued by Madurai regional passport officer summoning a man for inquiry on the ground

that he had suppressed the fact that his daughter was adopted while applying for passport for her earlier. The court also

directed the authorities to process the petitioner’s application and re-issue passport to his daughter.

The petitioner and his wife had adopted a girl child through the child welfare committee in 2015 by following the procedures

Christian Couple Wrongly Adopts Under Hindu Adoption Act; Delhi High Court Declares Them 'Adoptive Parents' As They Took Good Care Of Child

The Delhi High Court has given relief to a Christian couple who had looked after a child for six

years from her birth, although they had not followed the legal route for adoption.

The couple, who were childless, had adopted the child through an adoption deed executed under

the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, despite the fact the said Act is not applicable to

René Hoksbergen, professor of adoption René Hoksbergen saw early on that adopting children from abroad can cause problems.

Decades ago, René Hoksbergen pointed to problems with foreign adoption. This spring, the Committee on International Adoption Investigation concluded that abuses do indeed occur. As a result, all adoption procedures have been halted. There will also be an Expertise Center for identity questions, searches and aftercare.

Professor René Hoksbergen

Hoksbergen , professor emeritus at Utrecht University specializing in adoption, says he is "very happy" with the conclusions of the committee. "But it's forty years too late."

Hoksbergen (80) saw it go wrong. “Of course, in the beginning, around the 1970s, it was beautiful. In distant countries there was war, poverty and we Dutch could help. We bring the children here and give them a lot of love, then it will be all right, was the idea. It was called 'the pink cloud'. There were a lot of idealistic, passionate adoptive parents here, and the ministry was behind it. I also enthusiastically helped to bring children here.”