55 Adopted Kids In Madurai To Get Birth Certificates

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|Kaushik Kannan | May 22, 2024, 05:47 IST

Police said a 21-year-old woman delivered a baby girl four days ago at Tirupur Government Medical College Hospital.

COIMBATORE: The Tirupur police foiled an attempt by a young woman to give her infant on illegal adoption and inquiries are underway to punish the culprits.

Police said a 21-year-old woman delivered a baby girl four days ago at Tirupur Government Medical College Hospital.

Acting on a tip that the young mother is in talks for giving her baby, born before marriage, to a childless couple and the deal is being brokered by a temporary sanitary staff of the hospital, the Tirupur South police commenced an investigation.

On receiving a complaint from the hospital authorities, the District Child Protection Unit (DCPU) officers are holding a separate inquiry.

The ban on adopting children from abroad is causing a lot of commotion among adopted children and adoptive parents. "I think it is a careless decision," says Sander Vlek, advisor at the National Association for Adoptive Families. "I miss the central focus on the interests of the child in this plan."

New adoption procedures are no longer possible since yesterday . Caretaker Minister Weerwind for Legal Protection decided to stop this immediately. Only people who already have an adoption procedure in progress are still eligible.

But adoption from abroad is a measure to protect children, says Vlek. "I miss the evidence that children in countries of origin have a realistic chance of finding a loving family."

At the same time, there are also organizations that applaud the adoption stop, such as International Child Development Initiatives. "The past has shown that abuses cannot be ruled out," says program manager Sarah de Vos of the children's advocacy organization.

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S Africans urged to adopt and foster children to ensure the protection of youngsters

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

With the Child Protection Week campaign in full swing, the Department of Social Development (DSD) has encouraged South Africans to seek alternative care for their children if they are unable to care for them.

Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu launched Child Protection Week on Sunday in Kimberley, Northern Cape. 

Stichting Wereldkinderen has read the news about the latest developments regarding intercountry adoption. On Tuesday 21 May at 18:00 we received the documents that were shared with the First and Second Chamber from the Ministry of Justice and Security. In these documents, Minister Weerwind indicates that it is not possible to not implement the motion of 16 April or to implement it only to a limited extent. In contrast to the position that Minister Weerwind defended during the debate on 3 April, he has now decided to come up with a phase-out plan for intercountry adoption in the Netherlands in September. The minister indicates that intercountry adoption procedures that have already started will continue for the time being.

The minister has asked FIOM not to process any new registrations for intercountry adoption. Quote from the minister: ''The already planned information meeting will go ahead, but I have asked FIOM to explicitly state that it must be taken into account that a possible adoption procedure cannot be continued as a result of the phasing-out plan.'' In the phasing-out plan, the minister wants to keep the term limited. According to the minister, a change in the law is needed to facilitate the phasing-out. The country selection, as previously carried out, remains in force during this phasing-out. Since there is no longer a need for a central mediation organisation, the procedure for establishing IAN has been stopped.

In the interest of the child, the Wereldkinderen foundation believes that as long as there is a real need for intercountry adoption in the countries of origin, it should be possible for prospective adoptive parents in the Netherlands to give a child a loving home. We are convinced that this need still exists in the countries of origin. We know that there are parents who want to give children a loving home. We therefore find it very sad that the government no longer supports this international child welfare measure. 

The newly appointed special advocate for survivors of institutional abuse brings an unshowy sense of determination to her mission

Patricia Carey was born in a mother and baby home, and then adopted, but it was not something she talked about when she became chief executive of the Adoption Authority of Ireland more than four decades later.

“I made a conscious decision when I worked for the adoption authority not to discuss my own personal origins,” she says. “I didn’t want it to colour my professionalism.”

But when taking up the new role of special advocate for survivors of institutional abuse in March this year, Carey felt it was important to share that she had been born in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, Co Cork, in 1971. She believes it gives her “a little bit of an edge” in understanding this particular part of Ireland’s dark, yet very recent, social history.

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MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Thursday allowed a couple from Hyderabad to meet their 7-month-old adoptive child, who was allegedly trafficked, at a children’s home in Mahalaxmi three hours daily for six days a week. 

Vacation bench of Justices Sandeep Marne and Neela Gokhale modified their order, passed on Tuesday, that had allowed them visitation rights for 12 hours daily. 

“Accordingly it is directed that petitioners shall have the right to visit the child between 3 pm and 6 pm every day from Mon to Sat,” they added. 

The couple had filed a habeas corpus petition to direct the Child Welfare Committee to produce the child and hand over her custody to them. Their petition said that since their marriage in 2015, the wife had three miscarriages. Her aunt introduced them to a couple from Visakhapatnam who wanted to give the fifth child up for adoption. 

On Sept 23, both parties executed a deed of adoption and the seven-day-old baby was brought home. Since then the couple has taken care of her. On April 29 a team from Mumbai Crime Branch–Unit II “forcibly” took the baby away. They informed that the aunt was arrested in an FIR registered at Vikhroli police station for trafficking. 

GRONINGEN - The Public Prosecution Service is prosecuting 19-year-old Jamesley S. from Warffum for the murder of his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend Jet from the Groningen village of Winsum. The Public Prosecution Service found Snapchat videos on his phone that showed the young man had made a plan to kill the girl. On February 21, he waited for Jet in Winsum for an hour. When she was near her parental home, he stabbed her in the back without saying anything.

This was announced on Thursday during a first preliminary hearing in the criminal case in the Groningen court. Jamesley S. has confessed. Jet allegedly wanted to end her relationship with Jamesley S., but according to the Public Prosecution Service, "no motive has yet been found" during the investigation.

That one stab was fatal for Jet. She was found seriously injured on the AS Blécourtlaan and died shortly afterwards. Jamesley, in addition to the knife, also appeared to have taken a full-face helmet, ski goggles and a bag of clothing to Winsum. He was quickly arrested and confessed that he had killed Jet.

During the first session, a visibly affected Jamesley S. remained silent. He seemed intimidated by the full room with emotional relatives and friends of Jet, a camera crew and many journalists writing.

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Bijnor: After two children — Chirag (12), a student of class 4, and his neighbour Mahir (4) — were found murdered in Ketwali Pandki in Amroha district on Wednesday, Chirag’s 15-year-old adopted sister, who is also his cousin, turned out to be his killer, police said on Sunday.

Chirag’s father, Raju Saini, had adopted his sister’s daughter 15 years ago when he had no child. However, later his wife bore two children.

Amroha SP Kunwar Anupam Singh said, “We detained the deceased’s sister who confessed to her crime. She is not Chirag’s biological sister, so he used to taunt her. On May 8, when her parents were out for agricultural work, Chirag taunted her again. She struck him with a stick on his neck, causing him to collapse unconscious, after which she strangled him to death. She hid her brother’s body behind a heap of bricks. Cops recovered the rope and stick used in the crime.

”The body of Mahir was exhumed on Friday. Cops are still determining the cause of his death.