Justin D’Silva

Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (EP)

Udupi, May 21: A case is registered at Kota police station against a couple that illegally gave away a child for adoption and the doctor couple who adopted the child. The case is registered on the basis of a complaint lodged by the legal observer of the district child protection cell, Prabhakar Achar. Brahmavar child welfare project officer, Kumar, Anganwadi supervisor Laxmi, Kota police station sub-inspector Santhosh BP and assistant sub-inspector Muktha were behind the operation.

The female child that was born a year ago at a private hospital in Karkala. She was illegally handed over for adoption by the child’s parents Suresh and Sukanya to Hangarkatte resident Fayaz Shahista through Udupi resident Hussain. The birth certificate of the child was made to look like from it was from government taluk hospital, Koppa. It was obtained from Dr Balakrishna, the medical officer at the hospital. A case under the Child Justice Act is registered against six people. The year and two-month-old child was rescued and rehabilitated at Krishnanugraha adoption centre, Santhekatte.

“Do not be cheated over advertisements in the media offering children for adoption. Those who want to adopt children can contact district children protection unit Rajatadri, Manipal or children’s welfare committee Udupi or contact www.cara.nic.in,” requested legal observer Prabhakar Achary with people.

An adoptive mother has recounted to TVMnews that in addition to her biological children she had always also wished to have adopted children.

Interviewed by TVMnews she said she treats her own children in the same manner while expressing her satisfaction at increasing her family through adoption.

Currently there are about 500 parents waiting to adopt children from other countries.

197 children from other countries have begun a new life in Malta after being adopted last year.

TVMnews obtained from official sources that last year the most children adopted came from Ethiopia, Cambodia and Russia. There are other countries from which adoption is favoured, including India.

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It's believed half a million British women were persuaded to give their babies up for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

Campaigners from the Movement for an Adoption Apology want the government to acknowledge that many women may have been coerced into giving up their babies against their will, and apologise.

Those women have lived with the heartache ever since, and many never saw their children again.

These are their stories.

Jean's story

HYDERABAD: As the number of Covid cases are increasing by the day, the city is also witnessing many cases of children losing their parents to Covid-19 and illegal adoptions.

Keeping the situation in mind, Telangana State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has urged people to take up adoption only by following legal procedure. It has asked officials to stay alert to curb illegal adoptions.

The Commission has asked all District Collectors to consider it as a high priority task and instruct the authorities concerned to circulate the information on ‘legal adoption’ in all departments, among NGOs and the general public.

Stating that illegal adoptions can result in child trafficking, TSCPCR officials cautioned people not to engage in such practices, and added that there was a systematic process for the same.

Abuses regarding adoption still occur today, the Joustra Committee recently noted. The substantiation of that claim is brief, responds the AdoptieVereniging Gereformeerde Gezindte (AVGG).

"Almost unchanged" is the "fraud-sensitive system" of adoption from abroad, even after the stricter regulations in 1998. That is what the investigation committee states in a letter that Minister Dekker sent to the House of Representatives last week. The list of sources that the researchers included as evidence for their claim has raised eyebrows among adoption organizations.

According to the AVGG, that list shows once again that there is "insufficient basis for the firm decision" to suspend adoption from abroad for the time being, says chairman Martin van Dam. As an example, he cites the “signs of abuse” from South Africa, where his own adopted children come from. The evidence that Joustra provides for this is a series of parliamentary questions that were asked because children from that country were not allowed to be adopted by non-Christian or gay couples. “Improper management,” say the researchers. Van Dam, however, refers to it as a 'normative framework' that has since become obsolete.

Fraud-prone

With the claim that the adoption system is "fraud sensitive", the committee is giving an "incorrect representation" in Van Dam's eyes. He calls the suggestion that adoption creates a market of supply and demand is unjustified. “Abroad people look for a solution for the child, not so much for the parents. For example, one first finds out whether there is a place in the immediate family circle or living environment where the child can go.”

SAUK COUNTY (WKOW) -- A River Valley School District teacher is now facing charges for allegedly sexually assaulting a child in the 1990s.

Michael J. Hill is facing three charges for first degree sexual assault of a child.

Melisa Trejo says she was that child, and she says Hill adopted her from Colombia in 1987. Trejo wanted to share her story because she says she's tried to for the past 30 years, but no one has listened.

"I've been praying for a miracle, because really, I just -- I didn't ever see it happening," Trejo said.

She said she's not interested in vengeance, but rather justice from events that have left her scarred for decades -- and that she has worked for decades to bring to light.

„Mager bewijs voor misstanden adoptie”

Anne Vader

20 mei 2021 18:31

Van Dam.?beeld RD, Anton Dommerholt

Van Dam.?beeld RD, Anton Dommerholt

There really is no convincing evidence that adoption abuses are still taking place, the intermediary agencies say. According to them, the fact that they could take place is not enough reason to stop adoptions.

Mediation organizations that oppose an intercountry adoption stop. It may not sound very surprising. Nevertheless, the four organizations that supervise adoptions from abroad in the Netherlands kept silent when the caretaker cabinet decided in February to stop intercountry adoptions . Consciously, says Sanne Buursink of the A New Way foundation, on behalf of all of them. Because if the Joustra Committee, whose investigation was the basis of that decision, had reason to believe that abuses such as tampering with documents and even child trafficking are still occurring, they first wanted to know exactly what the investigators were based on. “We work every day to do everything as carefully as possible,” explains Buursink. "But we thought, maybe we have a blind spot."

Yet the organizations are still speaking out strongly about the issue this week . They also find the additional information that the Joustra Committee sent to Minister Sander Dekker (legal protection) wafer thin this week.

The Joustra Committee gives some sixty examples which, according to the researchers, demonstrate that abuses still occur around intercountry adoptions. Why are you not convinced?

Buursink: “The sources cited by the Committee to substantiate that position often date from a completely different era. They relate to countries that at the time the abuse took place had not yet ratified the Hague adoption convention (an international convention in which stricter rules for intercountry adoptions have been established, ed.), But have now done so. Or they are not even related to the abuse to which the committee has linked them. ”