After he was snatched, Antonio Salazar-Hobson didn’t see his family for 24 years. His desire to return to his mother, and his discovery of a higher purpose, helped him navigate a path through hell

Although it happened more than 60 years ago, Antonio Salazar-Hobson remembers every detail of his kidnapping. He says that if he closes his eyes, he is instantly taken back to that hot Sunday afternoon in 1960 when he was a four-year-old boy standing with his brothers and sisters in the red dust of his back yard on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona.

Nearby, at the bottom of a short passageway connecting the back yard to the road out of town, a car is idling.

A white man is leaning out of the window, calling Salazar-Hobson’s name. He is very afraid of this man and the woman sitting next to him in the passenger seat. His older brother and sister are also afraid. They have been told by their parents, who are out working in the fields, that they must not let Salazar-Hobson go anywhere with the couple in the car. He can hear the fear in their voices as they call out: “Thank you very much, but Antonio can’t come for ice-cream.”

Growing up, it was never a secret Bailey McNamee was adopted.

Her family are blonde-haired, blue-eyed Caucasians. She has brown eyes, brown hair, and brown skin.

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A MUM has revealed that she regrets adopting her daughter and feels like she is just babysitting someone else's child.

The mum of three said that she was told by doctors it would be difficult for her to conceive, so, after going through IVF for her first born, decide to adopt a daughter instead of having to go through treatment.

Taking to Reddit, the mum revealed: "We adopted this beautiful baby girl whose parents were too young to raise her themselves. I

"I loved her so much and treated her no different but I've never had the feeling she's my own.

"I often feel like I'm babysitting someone else's child.

• Steve Knibbs & Maisie Lillywhite
• Role,BBC West, Gloucestershire

22 March 2024

Abuse poisoned generations of a family after children's allegations and sexualised behaviour were not acted upon, a report has revealed.

The abuse began with Couple A in Gloucestershire, who specifically asked to adopt an "emotionally disturbed" child - so they could assault them.

The couple, eventually jailed in 2018, went on to adopt four siblings, beginning a cycle of sexual abuse that lasted for years.

Campaigners 'implore' MSPs to help deliver measures to help those affected by historic forced adoption policies.

Women forced to give up their babies for adoption in Scotland say the words in an apology made last year ‘lose their worth every day’.

The group Movement for an Adoption Apology has written a letter to over 60 MSPs urging action over the “ongoing injustice” and to help people in the community searching for answers about their relatives.

It comes a year after former first minister Nicola Sturgeon delivered an official apology in the Scottish Parliament to those who have been affected by historic forced adoption policies.

It is estimated around 250,000 families in Scotland have been affected by the practice throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

GESTOLEN LEVEN LAMBO, DANIEL LAMBO

Je wordt als wees geadopteerd in een Westers land en ontdekt pas jaren later dat je officiële papieren niet kloppen. Je was helemaal geen wees en je biologische ouders zijn ook nu nog in leven… Rani, ontvoerd als kind, getuigt over de kinderhandel door de katholieke kerk in India. De Nederlandse Marcia, slachtoffer van adoptiefraude, legt met haar organisatie corruptie bloot in Colombia en zorgt hiermee voor een schokgolf in België. Journalist Kurt ontmaskert met gevaar voor eigen leven een netwerk van Congolese kinderhandel.

ABUJA – The 36 State governors under the aegis of Nigerian Governors’ Forum NGF on Wednesday condemned the heinous act, where 17 Soldiers were killed in Okuama Community, Ughelli South Local Council Area of Delta State and observed a minute of silence for their souls.

The members of the NGF also raised concerns over the growing illegal and fraudulent inter-country adoption of Nigerian children by the United States.

AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq, the Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Executive Governor of Kwara State, gave the highlight in a issued after the governors’ meeting, and made available to newsmen on Thursday.

“We, members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), at our meeting held today. Wednesday 20” March 2024, deliberated on various issues of national importance and resolved as follows:

“The Forum commiserated with the Governor of Delta State. H E Sherif Oborevwwori. over the communal clash between Okuama in the Ughelli South Local Government Area and Okolaba in the Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, and which led to the death of many including sixteen (16) military personnel. While condemning the heinous act, members observed a minute of silence for the souls of the departed.

134 people have already reported questions about their adoption. Some adoptions date back sixty years or more. About twenty reports concern adoptions after 2000. This was reported by De Standaard on Thursday. Flemish Minister of Welfare Hilde Crevits (CD&V) wants each of these 134 adoptions to be rescreened.

In November last year it was confirmed that some adoptions of Ethiopian children through the Ray of Hope adoption agency had been abusive. Researchers who travelled to the country on behalf of Crevits and examined twelve adoption files, found that in at least one case parents had not consciously given up their child for adoption.

Following these initial results, the minister launched a broad appeal: anyone with questions about their own adoption or that of their child could report them. 134 people have already done so. This concerns reports about adoptions dating back to the 1950s and 1960s, as well as adoptions after 2000. There are 21 countries of origin among them.

Another 25 additional reports were received about Ethiopia, in addition to 21 reports about adoptions within Belgium and ten reports about adoptions from France. Other large clusters are 28 reports about adoptions from India and 19 about South Korea.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: To avoid duplication in the birth registration of adopted children in more than one local self-government institution, the state government has asked the families to initiate steps to cancel the registration done before permanently registering the birth within the limits of the LSG in which they reside.

The government had earlier given permission to families that adopted children to register the birth in the LSG where they reside, after submitting an application in the registration unit in which they are included. However, it led to duplication of birth certificates as some births were registered in the same local self-government institution.

Given the situation, the women and child welfare department had asked the State Birth and Death Registrar to take necessary steps to avoid duplication. Considering the demand of the women and child welfare department, the government in a circular issued on March 10, asked the parents of adopted children to cancel the birth registration done in the LSG where the adopted family also intended to register the birth with new permanent address.

The institutions that keep the children till adoption usually register the birth of children with the local self -government and give their address as the place of residence. The adopted family should submit an application to the Birth and Death Registrar in the LSG in which they live to cancel the birth registration done earlier.

Investigations continue to try and discover real parents of couple’s ‘non-related’ baby

PJ police have arrested a couple in their 40s, living in Gondomar, on suspicion of international child trafficking.

The duo walked into a family health unit in their city around a year ago with a baby girl who, they said, they wanted to ‘integrate into their household’ and start on the required round of vaccinations.

The infant had no identity documents: the story being that she was the daughter of a woman who had had an affair with the man, and who did not want her.

He and his wife had decided to bring her up as their own child, said the couple.