PHOENIX (AP) — A woman who acknowledged helping a former Arizona politician in an illegal adoption scheme involving women from the Marshall Islands was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday.

Lynwood Jennet, 47, took part in submitting false applications for the birth mothers to receive state-funded health coverage, even though none of the women resided in the state. She had pleaded guilty to conspiracy and theft charges for her role at the direction of Paul Petersen, a Republican who served as Maricopa County assessor for six years.

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2019, file photo, is former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen, right, with his attorney, Kurt Altman, after a court hearing in Phoenix. Prosecutors in Arkansas are seeking a 10-year prison sentence for Petersen for his conspiracy conviction in running an illegal adoption scheme involving women from the Marshall Islands. He also faces sentencings in Arizona and Utah during January for convictions related to the adoption scheme. (AP Photo/Jacques Billeaud, File)

Petersen worked as an adoption attorney before resigning his elected post and pleading guilty in three states to crimes related to the scheme. The health care fraud committed by Petersen and Jennet totaled $814,000, authorities said.

Petersen is in prison serving a total of 11 years for a conviction in Arkansas for conspiring to commit human smuggling and a health care fraud conviction in Arizona.

Vi skal i Danmark passe på med, at vi ikke krænker forældrenes ret til familieliv, som er en del af deres Menneskerettigheder. Sådan lyder det fra flere eksperter i forbindelse med aftaleteksten til Børnene Først, der lægger op til, at man kan træffe beslutning om bortadoption af børn, allerede før de er født.

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Norge blev i 2019 dømt af den Europæiske Menneskerettighedsdomstol (EMD) for at have krænket Menneskerettighedskonventionens artikel 8, der dækker over retten til privat- og familieliv. Sagen handlede om en mor, hvis tre-årige datter var blevet bortadopteret uden samtykke. Dommen lagde vægt på, at Norge ikke havde gjort et ordentligt forebyggende arbejde inden beslutning om bortadoption, og derfor var der allerede der sket en overtrædelse af konventionen.

I Danmark lægger aftaleteksten til Børnene Først og en ny Barnets Lov op til, at kommunerne skal have mulighed for at træffe afgørelse om en bortadoption, allerede før barnet er født. I udspillet til aftalen, der kom før den endelige aftaletekst, talte man endda om at ville lempe reglerne for adoption uden samtykke. Hos Institut for Menneskerettigheder, hvor Anette Faye Jacobsen er seniorforsker, holdt man meget nøje øje med netop denne del.

She is only two years old when her mother dies. Then she was sent to a Russian orphanage. A move to distant Sweden followed with everything that went with it: a new family, a new language, a kindergarten, new friends. As soon as she got used to everything, she had to go back to Russia. Because the parents supposedly regretted the adoption.

Now a lawyer and a youth welfare office are fighting to get the little one back to Sweden. The Swedish newspaper "Dagens Nyheter" reports .

When the little one, who is repeatedly torn between two worlds, was two years old, her mother died. The father is unknown. After the mother's death in Russia, the toddler did not have a single relative. No grandma, no aunt. Nobody. However, there is an uncle in Sweden. This uncle and his wife applied for adoption. However, the couple had to be screened by the Swedish Youth Welfare Office just like all other couples willing to adopt. The case was legally complicated as there has been no adoption agreement between Sweden and Russia since 2013.

Eventually, however, the couple got the green light. In autumn 2019, the two-year-old girl was allowed to move to Sweden. She now lived with her new adoptive parents in the 14,000-inhabitant town of Tranås in southern Sweden. Not much is known about these parents, but both are said to be well off and live in a stately home in Tranås.

Kindergarten switched on the youth welfare office when the girl no longer showed up

Hong Kong (CNN) — The abduction of 2-year-old Guo Xinzhen in eastern China in 1997 sparked a desperate, seemingly never-ending nationwide search by his parents

that inspired filmmakers to bring their story to the big screen.

But this week -- 24 years after his disappearance -- the search for Guo finally came to an end.

Police in Liaocheng City, Shandong province, said Monday they had found Guo, now an adult living in neighboring Henan province -- and had reunited him with his parents.

Video footage of the reunion on Sunday, released by police, shows the family in tears and embracing tightly, crying out, "We found you, you've come back."

LIMA — In Alex Butcher’s line of work, things rarely stop or slow down. There will always be kids and teenagers in need of adoption, but those who make it possible are often overlooked in those feel-good stories.

On Tuesday, Butcher was officially recognized as a recipient of the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Recruiter of the Year Award for her work with Allen County Children Services. She becomes one of three recipients of the award for 2021 out of nearly 500 recruiters across the United States and Canada.

“I am really honored to have my work recognized,” she said. “I’m really fortunate to work with such an amazing foundation as well as agencies that support this recruitment and permanency for the kiddos in the foster care system that need it most.”

Butcher specializes in helping put kids from foster care into their forever homes. Oftentimes, they are medically fragile, have behavioral issues or are teenagers past the desired adoption age. These groups are in need of the most help in getting adopted, which is where Alex comes in.

“Child-focused recruitment method can help make children up to two times more likely to be adopted,” she said. “We look at not only adoptive families, but we also look at people that children already have relationships with, and we try to recruit permanent families that already have an existing relationship with that child.”

LEGAL COUNSEL FOR women seeking judicial reviews of the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes report have proposed proceeding with three test cases in the High Court.

Eight women, some of whom cannot be named, are taking legal challenges against the Irish State.

A number of women have claimed that their testimony was misrepresented in the report and have taken issue with the fact they were not given a right to reply before the report was published in January.

A test case is one brought forward that would then set a precedent for future similar cases.

The Journal understands that the three proposed test cases are those being brought by high-profile survivors Philomena Lee, Mary Harney and Mari Steed.

As per data by WDCW, till May this year, around 143 children were orphaned due to COVID-19, of which 30 are from Hyderabad.

HYDERABAD: In a bid to curb illegal adoption taking place after the second COVID wave, the State Women Development and Children Welfare (WDCW) Department launched awareness campaigns and counselling sessions.

Fatalities in the second wave of the COVID pandemic have left several children orphaned. As per data by WDCW, till May this year, around 143 children were orphaned due to COVID-19, of which 30 are from Hyderabad.

Amidst this chaos, many social media platforms were flooded with adoption posts for orphaned children. Experts say that adoption through these ways can not just lead to human trafficking but also have legal repercussions.

Legally, adoptions can be done by a Specialised Adoption Agency (SAA). Regarding this, training will be given to SAA Managers and social workers from July 12 to 17 at the WDCW office.

The issue of child adoption has been a part of the legislation for a long in Nepal. The 1963 Muluki Ain favoured adoptions by closed blood relatives or persons belonging to the same clan. Dharmaputra (adopted son) and dharmaputri (adopted daughter) also have some religious connections in Nepal.

Adoption primarily is viewed as an agreement involving inheritance or care for adoptive parents. However, in terms of law, there have been some shifts since the 1963 legislation. Currently, section 169 of the Civil Code, 2017, defines adoption as a situation in which a person accepts a son or daughter of another person as his or her son or daughter.

Following are some aspects relating to adoption from the perspective of the country’s law. These rules apply to an adoptive person who is a Nepali national. We will discuss the law for foreigners willing to adopt a child in Nepal in the next article.

Conditions for adoption

Section 172 of the Civil Code lays down criteria for anyone to adopt a child. The criteria are mentioned below:

TILBURG - How strange and beautiful life can be at times. Until she found her biological family, Inja Hage-Koelemeijer had nothing to do with Korean cuisine, she will soon open her own permanent place on Willem II Street. A Korean deli where you can also take away meals. And from where they deliver.

She is 'very happy'. Tilburg's Inja Hage-Koelemeijer has come a long way, but in September will open a 'luxury toko' with professional kitchen on Willem II Street, next to Kras2 sandwich shop. Inja's Seoul Kitchen, Korean through and through. Where you can buy Korean ingredients, all kinds of kimchis (fermented cabbage) and kimbap (seaweed rolls).

The story of Inja is not just a catering story. If you want to see the beauty of your own business, you have to take a few steps back in time. In 1974, as a 5-year-old, she and her younger brother moved to the Netherlands after their adoption.

Found family

She hardly stood still for that adoption for years until the telephone rang in 2007. At the other end of the line is the Korean adoption association Arierang. Whether Inja needs contact with her mother? The first meeting follows the next day . Her biological mother has been looking for her for years, not knowing where to look. Finally she finds Inja.

Frontline, The Care Review and the lost decade …..

July 11, 2021UncategorizedChildrens Social Care Review, Frontlinedianegalpin

A decade on from the creation of Frontline and the final conclusions of the Children’s Social Care Review some individuals careers have soared, riches have been enhanced, power, privilege & elite status have been grasped, bright futures are in clear sight… but alas not for those children and families at the centre of this continuing social work saga.

In October 2012 an early career teacher in his mid 20’s decided he was going to change the future of social work with children and families. So Josh MacAlister approached Ark Ventures, a global charity set up in 2002 by hedge fund managers, seeking support to develop a new programme of social work education based on a fast track teacher leadership training programme he himself had qualified through called Teach First.

Ark responded by providing £200,000 in seed capital so a business plan for Government funding could be submitted by MacAlister to start up Frontline. Support in developing the business plan was provided by BCG (Boston Consulting Group the 2nd largest American consultancy in the world). ‘The business plan was submitted in just four months, and used to secure over £15m of government and philanthropic investment to launch the venture’ (Ark Ventures).