Julienne Mpemba and her lawyers will perhaps finally face the trial judge in a few months in the case of alleged "fraud in the adoption of Congolese children" charged to the Belgian-Congolese by the Belgian justice. So decided on February 16, the council chamber of Dinant. Nine other people, civil servants of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, cited in this file have benefited from a dismissal.

The prospect of appearing before the criminal court suits Julienne Mpemba and her lawyers, who are calm. The case dates back to 2015. Director of the "Tumaini" Orphanage, Julienne Mpemba is asking 8 Belgian couples who have adopted Congolese children to pay the arrears they owe to the Orphanage to ensure the work of childcare workers. and by extension, the good supervision of the 22 other children. While she was within her rights, the sky fell on the director of "Tumaini". Michel Lastchenko, head of the Belgian diplomatic mission in Kinshasa at the time of the events, joins the dance. The Belgian diplomat alerted the Congolese authorities, including the then Minister of Justice, Alexis Thambwe Mwamba. At the request of the Belgian Ambassador,

Quickly, we move from words to deeds. A team of 7 agents (four Congolese policemen and three elements of the security of the Belgian Embassy) will burst into her home, to her great surprise, provided with a warrant to bring doubled that of search. Léon Nema Lemba (Papa Molière), was at that time with Mrs. Mpemba, attended the scene which he also filmed. The investigators sent to Julienne Mpemba had been given the task of finding the children adopted by Belgian parents... The latter was surprised to find that the Belgian agents of the Belgian embassy could afford this in the DRC.

She will be arrested and imprisoned for two days at the Kinshasa-Gombe High Court prosecutor's office. It didn't stop there. She was ordered to hand over the children to the Ambassador in defiance of the work of an entire Congolese team. While the Belgian parents of these children still refused to reimburse the costs of the Orphanage. The Wallonia-Brussels Federation imposed on Ms. Mpemba a sum that did not cover the costs of the children at the orphanage and, moreover, the orphanage was also indebted.

Flashback

The outbreak of the pandemic in March had brought the adoption process to a standstill for several reasons – lack of information, closure of courts and fear of contracting the infection

The ongoing pandemic has left prospective parents (PPs), hoping to adopt a child, in uncertainty.

The outbreak of the pandemic in March had brought the adoption process to a standstill for several reasons – lack of information, closure of courts and fear of contracting the infection. These reasons refrained PPs from approaching adoption centres.

After being halted for April and May 2020 owing to the Covid-19 outbreak, the process of adoptions – considered lengthy and tedious – restarted in June. Since then, 437 children have been adopted domestically and internationally in the state.

Of these 378 were adopted by domestic applicants, while 59 children were adopted by international applicants between June and December last year, data provided by the State Adoption Resource Agency (SARA) stated. During the financial year 2019-20, 539 children were adopted domestically, while 69 were adopted internationally in Maharashtra.

Following a similar investigation, the Netherlands recently suspended all foreign adoptions.

Falsification of documents, lost files, victims of child trafficking: a group of people adopted abroad and adoptive parents is asking the French government for an investigation to shed light on "illegal practices" observed during international adoptions.

"We, adopted people and French adoptive parents, ask the government and parliamentarians to set up a commission of inquiry so that illegal practices in international adoption since the 1970s are noted", write the members of this recent collective for the Recognition of illicit adoptions in France (Raif) in a petition addressed to the National Assembly and published on the Change.org site.

Mali, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Peru: illegal adoptions? Stolen children?

In recent years, several children adopted in France, now adults, have testified in books or in the media of difficulties in accessing their origins, even of fraudulent procedures during their adoption.

Jyothi Svahn was sold as a child - and adopted to Sweden without the mother's knowledge.

Israel said Monday it will compensate families whose children were taken from their parents in the early years after the state was founded, in a major development in the so-called "stolen babies" affair.

Activists and family members have for decades charged that up to several thousand babies were taken in the years after Israel gained statehood in 1948, mainly from Jewish Yemenite families, but also from immigrants of other Arab and Balkan nations.

They allege the babies were stolen and given to Jewish families of Western origin in Israel and even abroad, mainly those who could not have children themselves.

In a statement, the government expressed "regret over the events that occurred in the early days of the state and recognises the suffering of the families whose children were part of this painful affair".

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the statement called it "among the painful affairs" in Israel's history.

Ireland's mother and baby homes inquiry has "become aware of backup tapes" after it was criticised for deleting audio recordings of witness evidence.

It is not yet known if the backup tapes contain the deleted personal accounts given by former residents of the homes, but their content is to be examined.

Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman revealed the discovery on Friday.

He stressed he did not want to raise expectations unduly but very much hoped they contain the deleted testimonies.

The recordings were made when 549 people who had "lived experience" of mother and baby homes agreed to give evidence to an independent inquiry into the institutions.

VIDEOBREDA - She has been adopted, Rupika Kop from Breda. Thirty years ago she came to our country from Sri Lanka as a baby. She is incredibly happy with that, she says. Because her parents here saved her life.

Adopting children from abroad? That is no longer allowed. The cabinet's ban comes after a damning report by the Joustra Committee that investigated abuses surrounding foreign adoptions (see box).

And yes, they are terrible, those adoption excesses , Rupika Kop does not deny that. “But by now suspending those adoptions, the cabinet is affecting precisely the children who need help. This measure is far too drastic. For some of those children it is a matter of life or death. I don't hear anyone about that. ''

The Breda resident should know. If she hadn't been adopted thirty years ago, she wouldn't have lived now. Because, she says, her Dutch parents - whom she sees as her only real parents - saved her life. “My neck was completely crooked as a result of a bad pregnancy. After my adoption, I received physiotherapy at home for two years. If that hadn't happened, I wouldn't have survived. Healthcare in Sri Lanka is not as good as that in the Netherlands. The doctor involved in my adoption sent another letter to my parents a few years later. He wrote that they saved my life. ”

Adoption papers

Sander Huisman, eligible for election for the ChristenUnie and known to some as the face of the AFCA Supportersclub, does not think the adoption stop is justified. He was himself adopted from Indonesia in 1979.

The reason for the adoption stop, which was instituted last week by Minister Dekker, is an investigation by

the Joustra Committee. He concluded that a lot had gone wrong with adoptions abroad between 1967 and

1997. For example, it concerned child theft and forgery of documents.

'It is of course very sad and regrettable if abuses arise around adoption or if adoption cases simply did not

PHOENIX -- A former Arizona politician who acknowledged running an illegal adoption scheme in three states, including Arkansas, that involved birth mothers from the Marshall Islands has asked an appeals court to throw out his six-year prison sentence.

Attorneys for Paul Petersen argue that a judge double-counted factors in the case that increased the severity of Petersen's punishment, such as concluding that he abused his position as an adoption attorney.

Petersen, a Republican who served as Maricopa County's assessor for six years and operated an adoption practice on the side, is contesting the first of three sentences he'll receive for arranging adoptions that are prohibited by an international compact.

A month ago, he started serving the sentence for a federal conviction in Arkansas for conspiring to smuggle humans. He is to be sentenced next month on convictions for fraud in Arizona and for human smuggling in Utah.

Investigators estimated that Petersen handled a minimum of 30 Marshallese adoptions a year in Northwest Arkansas. His October 2019 indictment left 19 birth mothers and the prospective adoptive parents in legal limbo in Washington County Circuit Court. Those cases were dealt with under sealed records.

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