Virudhunagar: Police arrested six people including a doctor couple here on Monday evening in connection with the illegal adoption of a baby by a couple three years ago apparently without the knowledge of its biological mother. The matter came out in the open after the woman’s mother who was also part of the crime spilled the beans to her recently.

According to sources, 20-year-old Selvi (name changed) is a resident of a village near Aruppukottai in the district. Selvi fell in love with a person called Narayanan (name changed) when she was a minor girl and became pregnant. When Selvi’s mother Muthulakshmi came to know about it, she admitted her to a private hospital at Kallorani.

Even though Selvi gave birth to a baby boy, the doctor, Vino Dhamayandhi (49), and her husband Vadivelmurugan (51), who is also a doctor, convinced Muthulakshmi to give away the baby in adoption to a couple, Jeyaraj (39) and Shanmugapriya (31), residents of Aruppukottai. A hospital staffer, Kulandhai, was also involved in the incident. When Selvi asked about her baby, Muthulakshmi said it had died. Later, Selvi got married to Narayanan and she gave birth to a girl child in 2017. Recently, when Selvi was feeling depressed and crying over not having a male heir, Muthulakshmi revealed that she had given birth to a male baby in 2016 and that the doctors had given it away in adoption. Angered over this, Selvi and Narayanan went to the hospital and picked up a quarrel with the doctor couple who in turn asked them to inquire with her mother Muthulakshmi.

Work of the Investigative Commission on Irregular Adoptions of the Chamber of Deputies ends

The investigation covered the period from 1973 to 1990.

After almost five months of operation, the Investigative Commission on Irregular Adoptions of the Chamber of Deputies, an instance created to address the irregular adoptions of more than five thousand Chilean children between 1973 and 1990, finished its work.

The committee gave testimony to mothers victims of the theft of their children, and presented representatives of the Ministry of Health, Police Investigations, Civil Registry, among others.

Magellan deputy Sandra Amar, a member of the commission, said that “there is no doubt that the adoptions of thousands of Chilean children took place within the framework of illegality, mainly due to hospital shortages of the time, the lack of a optimal birth registration and the presence of groups that acted in coordination to snatch children, especially vulnerable women; single women, sometimes with many children and from rural sectors ”.

In a first, Amboli police register case of a child being sold under the guise of an illegal deed of adoption

The Amboli police recently registered a case of unlawful adoption after arresting the accused on June 26. Durgamiti Saha, 38, had allegedly sold her baby girl born at Cooper Hospital in Juhu on January 8 to 42-year-old Kirpal Singh. Against the Central Adoption and Registration Agency's (CARA) rules of adoption, Singh and Saha had filed a deed of adoption at the Andheri Metropolitan Court on January 22 with monetary compensation to the mother.

Two days after the child's birth, Saha's neighbour had alerted an NGO about the deal for Rs 1,50,000. Despite being warned by the NGO against doing so, Saha allegedly settled for a sum of Rs 20,000 and in February, handed her daughter over to Singh who took the infant to his wife in Punjab.

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The matter was then brought to the notice of the Child Welfare Committee which filed a case with the Amboli police. The CWC took custody of the child after Singh's arrest on June 26. The seven-month-old is currently kept at Vatsalya Trust, an orphanage in Kanjurmarg, where she will stay until a legal conclusion in the case is drawn.

In her quest to trace her long lost biological mother, a German national has been travelling across Karnataka for a decade.

RAICHUR: In her quest to trace her long lost biological mother, a German national has been travelling across Karnataka for a decade. The fact that her foster parents adopted her illegally in 1981 has made her search difficult, as some official records have reportedly vanished, affecting the lady’s efforts to find out where she had been taken from, by her adoptive parents.

Mariya Chaya Schupp, a teacher by profession, was adopted when she was a four-year-old from a shelter called Nirmala Social Welfare (NSW) in Ullal in Mangaluru. Mariya learnt this from her foster mother Ingrid Schupp. “My foster mother, Ingrid, told me that I was an abandoned street kid from India. This led me to my search.”

Mariya, who has been searching for her mother for a decade, has now landed at Raichur based on information that her mother Girija Ganiga moved to Raichur from Mangaluru. “In the initial days, when I began the search, I was not even aware of her name. However, in Ullal, after I started searching, some neighbours revealed that her name is Girija Ganiga and she has relocated, probably to Raichur,” Mariya said. Now she has contacted the media and activists in Raichur seeking their help to find Girija.

Mariya squarely alleged that her adoption was illegal. Her foster mother adopted her through an adoption agency named Pro-Infant Adoption. However, this agency is currently facing a ban in Germany, according to her. The shelter, which Ingrid contacted through the agency flouted certain norms, Mariya alleged.

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Search for biological mother leads German woman to Raichur

In her quest to trace her long lost biological mother, a German national has been travelling across Karnataka for a decade.

Mariya Chaya Schupp

Vietnam is the top country for people from Ireland who are adopting a child from abroad.

There were 20 adoptions registered from Vietnam here last year, according to the annual report of the Adoption Authority.

This is followed by Thailand, from where eight children were adopted, and the United States, which accounted for seven adoptions to Ireland.

There were four children adopted here from China and one from Bulgaria.

Overall there were just 41 inter-country adoptions last year, which is down from 82 in 2015.

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Scenic: Vietnam is the number one country for people from Ireland to adopt a foreign child1

Eilish O'Regan

July 20 2019 2:30 AM

Vietnam is the top country for people from Ireland who are adopting a child from abroad.

Migrant children, left without a mother by accidents in the Mediterranean, have found a second chance thanks to two Sicilian families

They are called Noelia and Isabel and to unite them is a common past. Both are "orphans of the sea". Two girls, that is, who have lost their natural mothers in the crossing of the desperate in the Mediterranean, from Africa to Italy. Here, however, they found, both, an adoptive family. And, with this, that second opportunity that those who gave their lives did not, unfortunately, have.

Their moving story was told by their adoptive mothers. Both seem to come from Nigeria. Although little is known about their past. Noelia arrived in 2015, Isabel a year later. To take them on a sea journey to Italy, on a boat, on which they traveled with their respective parents. The one on which Noelia was traveling caught fire. She, survived only 23 days old, was rescued by a fishing boat. The 23, however, is a number that is also linked to the history of Isabel. 23 were, in fact, the people, including herself, who were saved among the 100 who undertook that damn trip. The mother protected her as much as she could from the burning sun, which took away her life. Protected by another woman, the child managed to reach Italy alive.

"Of their past - said Margherita and Sofia (the names are fancy), the adoptive mothers - we know practically nothing, we presume the nationality because they were mostly Nigerians on the barge. We don't know the day of birth, the real name, who their mother was, nothing. It was the Court, after medical examinations following the landing, to decide for them. Not even a birth certificate ".

But the documents do not serve when the miracle of adoption comes into play. " It was love at first sight. Yes, they changed our lives ", say the two women who made Noelia and Isabel again" daughters ". Both were placed in a family home for some time before the adoption.

Ludhiana: A few days after TOI reported the plight of 10-year-old Pratigya and her parents, who have been struggling to get her

custody for the past one year due to official apathy, social security and women & child development minister Aruna Chaudhary

on Friday sought a detailed report into the matter.

The minister also sought an explanation from the district child protection officer (DCPO) on the issue.

In its news reports published in these columns earliar this week, TOI had highlighted how Pratigya’s parents Gopal and Hema,