As the officer incharge of the Wave City Police station that day, he asked a team of officers to visit the spot and admit the baby to a Community Health Centre(CHC) and get her medical check up done.

On a sunny Friday afternoon, sub-inspector Pushpendra Kumar was investigating a murder near the Inayatpur and Raghunathpur villages of Ghaziabad when he was alerted that a newborn baby was found abandoned nearby. “I thought it was ‘some’ child that was abandoned by the parents,” he said. But little did he know that was the beginning of an emotional roller-coaster that was awaiting him in the days to follow.

As the officer incharge of the Wave City Police station that day, he asked a team of officers to visit the spot and admit the baby to a Community Health Centre(CHC) and get her medical check up done.

An hour and a half later, Kumar decided to visit the spot — a jungle between the two villages — where the baby was abandoned to find any clue of the missing parents. A few village residents were still at the spot. “They said that there were wild dogs in the area. The boundary wall on which the baby was laid was narrow, it was a surprise that she was found safe,” he said.

Soon, he was at the CHC. “The doctors informed me that the baby was doing fine, healthy and weighed around 3.15 kg. I went inside to see her. She was dressed in a light blue t-shirt. Tiny hair covered her head and her eyes were closed. Wrapped in a pink towel, the doctors placed her in my arms. They said the child was doing fine and needed to be shifted to an orphanage,” Kumar said.

Over €27.4 million has been paid to survivors to date, but thousands of people remain excluded.

THE FIRST OF a number of legal cases calling for the Government’s redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby institutions to be extended is due to come before the High Court next week.

The case was originally due to be mentioned today but was pushed back until next Monday, 21 October, as a document was missing from the case file.

Judge Mary Rose Gearty said the case would be mentioned next week instead.

John Duncan-Morris, who spent time in Bessborough institution in Cork and St Joseph’s in Stamullen in Meath, is taking legal action against the State.

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Sentenced  on Thursday to ten years in prison by the Namur Criminal Court for, in particular, kidnapping minors, hostage-taking and fraud in the context of international adoptions between the DRC and Belgium , Juilenne Mpemba from Namur benefited " from officials of the French Community, managers of approved adoption organisations and various personalities, a culpable leniency without which the defendant could not have acted as she did  ".

These sentences from the judgment did not go unnoticed, particularly by Mr. Vincent Lurquin. The lawyer for three Congolese biological families decided to initiate civil proceedings  so that decisions could be made on "  the responsibility of the entire Belgian adoption chain and of politics ."

As a reminder, a general dismissal of the case was pronounced by the Liège indictment chamber in September 2022, ending the charge of failure to assist a person in danger against, among others, the chief of staff of Rachid Madrane, former Minister of Youth Assistance, the director of the community authority at the time and the two directors of the adoption organization who supervised all the adoption procedures.

In his lifetime, Ratan Tata was often compared to Jamshedji Tata and JRD Tata. But what many may find interesting is that Ratan Tata would never have acceded to the Tata throne had his father Naval Tata not been adopted by Navajbai Tata

Former Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata breathed his last in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital at 11:30pm on Wednesday. The industrialist leaves behind a formidable legacy in the corporate world, having a staid group into India’s largest and most influential conglomerate with a string of eye-catching deals.

Given his successes in the business world and the charitable causes close to his heart, Ratan Tata has often been compared to Jamshedji Tata and JRD Tata. But what many may find interesting is that Ratan Tata’s father Naval Tata, who was born on August 30, 1904, was only a distant relative of the Tata business family.

Naval Tata’s father worked as a spinning master at Ahmedabad Advance Mills. In 1908, Naval lost his father at the age of four, following which his mother took him to Gujarat’s Navsari where she started working on embroidery to make ends meet.

In these circumstances, Naval Tata was sent to the JN Petit Parsi Orphanage, where he met Navajbai Tata, wife of Sir Ratanji Jamsetji Tata. Navajbai decided to adopt Naval when he was 13. Following this, Naval Tata was given formal education and he graduated in Economics from the University of Bombay. He then went to London where he enrolled in courses related to accounting.

Eight-year-old Grace Welch has been waiting since 2019 for her older sister to occupy the bed next to hers.

Her parents had told her that, Penelope, a 10-year-old born in China, would be joining the family, who live in Kentucky in the US.

Grace, also adopted from China, was born without her left forearm. Her mother, Aimee Welch, said Penelope too has a “serious but manageable” special need, although she did not wish to disclose it.

The Welch family, who have four biological sons, sought to adopt children with disabilities after the birth of a nephew without arms.

“He taught us all what a person with limb differences can achieve with the right love and support. His birth started us on the path towards adopting Grace,” Ms Welch said. “We believe in the dignity and worth of each person, just as they are, in all their diversity.”

From the 1970s onwards, Swiss couples adopted thousands of children from countries in the global south. Triggered by the first critical historical studies and demands from adopted people, the federal government and cantons have begun to examine international adoptions in recent years.

How did parents end up separating from their children? Who brought the children to Switzerland and how did they get there? How did the admission and adoption decisions come about? How did people who did not know each other become a family in Switzerland? And how do adopted people today deal with their biographies, what they know and what they do not know?

Panel discussion with Sabine Bitter, Andrea Abraham, Celin Sithy Fässler and Rita Kesselring (moderator)

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As an American citizen and adoptee, I know firsthand how the values and promises of America have made life exponentially better for those who were not born on these shores.

Twenty years ago, a single mother in a developing nation made a heartbreaking decision. I know very little about her, except that she desperately wanted to give me, her child, a better life – and that she knew in her heart of hearts that she couldn’t do it herself.

She sent me to an orphanage, believing as she gave me away that somewhere, in an uncertain future she knew nothing about, there would be the opportunity for me to grow up safe and happy and free, even if that future never involved her again. That dream was worth giving up her child, and hoping against hope that I could succeed in a world she simply couldn’t get me to.

As she no doubt predicted, she never did see me again. Yet I never write about this issue without thinking about my birth mother.

Two decades after we saw each other for the last time, I have two amazing parents and a job advancing the financial freedom and mobility of everyday Americans. I am more self-realized than I ever imagined.

The Court held that “the prosecution of the petitioner is sugarcoated with ill-intention and made to belittle his image in the society.” ...

Madhya Pradesh High Court: In a writ petition seeking quashment of an FIR registered against the petitioner, who operates an orphanage, for alleged involvement in male trafficking under Section 370 of the IPC, a single-judge bench of Sanjay Dwivedi, J., quashed the FIR alleging male trafficking as the essential elements of Section 370 IPC were absent. 

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n the instant matter, the petitioner, Aadhaarshila Sansthan, operates two institutions (i) Bal Bhawan (earlier known as Central India Christian Mission), an orphanage registered as a Child Care Institution under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (JJ Act) and Central India Academy, a residential school not falling under the JJ Act’s Child Care Institution definition.

In a communication dated 06-08-2024, the City Superintendent of Police, Damoh, sought detailed records regarding children residing in Bal Bhawan and raised concerns about how they were received, their medical records, and whether proper notifications to authorities were made

Following this, an FIR was registered against the petitioner on 07-08-2024, for offenses under Sections 370(3), 370(4), and 34 of the IPC, along with Section 80 of the JJ Act. The FIR was grounded on allegations of improper post-adoption follow-up of two children, ‘X-Bhosle’ and ‘X-Dhurvey’, who were reportedly found living at the orphanage after being adopted. The petitioner filed the present writ petition seeking to quash both the communication dated 06-08-2024 and the FIR.

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The one-year-old sits up in her crib with wide eyes. The girl is much too thin and too small for her age

Jegan shyly points to the crumpled photo in his brown hand. Then he whispers: "Dad, Mum." The man in the picture is holding a blonde woman in his arms. The little Indian's finger continues to wander across the paper: a laughing boy and a girl with cheeky braids are steering a white motorboat. Jegan looks questioningly out from under his jet-black fringe of hair. "Brother," Sister Paulina interjects: "Brother and Sister."

The six-year-old speaks Tamil, he can barely speak English and not at all in German. He could have learned his first words of Swabian months ago if it weren't for the bureaucratic hurdles: Monika and Ulrich Kippelt from Alfdorf in Stuttgart have been fighting to adopt the Indian orphan since September 2003. The story of Jegan and his new parents is a drama with great emotions, disappointments and hopes and an uncertain ending. It shows how difficult international adoptions are - and how important.