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Investigating alleged illegal adoption of tapatías children

Investigating alleged illegal adoption of tapatías children
Georgina Vallejo
Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:37

Lucero and Estela, eight and seven years old, were assigned to an Italian couple.

The president of the Human Rights Commission of Jalisco (CEDHJ), Felipe de Jesus Alvarez Cibrian, confirmed that the defense agency has already begun the investigation regarding the alleged illegal adoption of two girls tapatías by an Italian couple. The complaint was filed by the Foundation for Stolen and Missing Child CA (Find) on the grounds that the State Council on the Family (CEF) of DIF Jalisco, violated several laws to ensure that the sisters Lucero and Estela Perez Velez could be candidates adopted in record time.


"It was processed, the complaint has been received [was admitted to the number 2015/11/V] and has been turned over to the Fifth Inspectorate and given all the speed, the drive to resolve it with opportunity, as all complaints go to bottom, "said the ombudsman.

Cibrian Alvarez said that "it is important the participation of the complaining party to relatives of evidence, and we for our part we will also appropriate to be able to get the legal truth and historical truth." At the same time, announced that for the purpose "to give due prominence to the track" regarding complaints against the FSB, issued a special report next week. "It's definitely an issue that should insist, there are several complaints, some that are not completed and not rule out the possibility of coming over recommendations" and said: In 2010 there were twenty complaints against the said Council and the 2011 are two.

Interviewed separately, the FSB spokesman, Ruben Reynoso Flores stated that it incurred in an illegal adoption of Perez Velez sisters. "The word illegal adoption does not exist, because an adoption is given and if there is obviously no items to offer as not given, because Civil Code does not provide legal or illegal adoption is a term misused."

Following clarification of semantics, said that in January 2005 asked the group home Born to Succeed reports on the status of the sisters, which said the shelter, the 25th of this month which were only visited by his grandfather.
Reynoso Flores says the family court judge issued edicts to appear people who believe in law and notified the grandparents who was conducting the trial of parental loss. Find and Elvira Velez Perez, Lucero's older sister, Estela, ensure that the family was not aware of it (Public Goals, 25 and March 30, 2011).

Plea to find the loss of custody of only two of the three sisters who were sent by the prosecution at the hostel said, Reynoso said is that "we only made available to two, we can not release to third but there is the willingness of the prosecuting authority. "

Estela Lucero and girls, ages eight and seven years old, were assigned to the Italian Aberto Big Bertha and Anna Maria on October 5, 2006 for a period of coexistence. "Empathy is a process supervised by a psychologist, if they see that there is click or not the adopted child with the adoptive parents", which came with the aforementioned couple. "Whenever there was the click withdraws adopted children."
In less than a month, the November 16, 2006, were given to another couple: Rinaldo Folco and Patricia Campiani, yes finally passed the period of empathy.

Elvira on the desire of returning to see her sisters, Ruben Reynoso admitted that it is legally difficult, but noted that they are okay.

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Investigan presunta adopción ilegal de niñas tapatías
Georgina Vallejo
Jueves, 31 de Marzo de 2011 09:37

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Lucero y Estela, de ocho y siete años de edad, fueron asignadas a un pareja de italianos.

El presidente de la Comisión Estatal de Derechos Humanos de Jalisco (CEDHJ), Felipe de Jesús Álvarez Cibrián, confirmó que el organismo defensor ya inició la indagatoria respecto a la presunta adopción ilegal de dos niñas tapatías por parte de un matrimonio italiano. La queja fue presentada por la Fundación para Niños Robados y Desaparecidos AC (Find) por considerar que el Consejo Estatal de la Familia (CEF) del DIF Jalisco, violó varias disposiciones legales para lograr que las hermanas Lucero y Estela Pérez Velez pudieran ser candidatas a adopción en un tiempo récord.


“Ya se dio trámite, la queja ha sido recibida [se admitió con el número 2015/11/V] y ha sido turnada a la Quinta Visitaduría y se le dará toda la celeridad, el impulso para resolverla con oportunidad, como todas las quejas iremos a fondo”, aseguró el ombudsman.

Álvarez Cibrián adelantó que “será importante la participación de la parte quejosa para poder allegar de pruebas, y nosotros por nuestra parte también haremos lo que corresponda para poder llegar a obtener la verdad jurídica y la verdad histórica”. A la par, anunció que para efectos “de dar la importancia que merece el tema” relativo a las quejas contra el CEF, emitirá un informe especial la semana próxima. “Definitivamente es un tema en que se debe de insistir, hay diversas quejas, otras que no se concluyen y tampoco descartamos la posibilidad de que vengan más recomendaciones”, dijo y apuntó: en 2010 se presentaron veinte quejas contra el citado Consejo y este 2011 van dos.

Entrevistado por separado, el vocero del CEF, Rubén Reynoso Flores manifestó que no se incurrió en una adopción ilegal de las hermanitas Pérez Velez. “La palabra de adopciones ilegales no existe, porque una adopción se da y si obviamente no hay los elementos para brindarse pues no se da, porque en el Código Civil no contempla adopciones ilegales o legales, es un término mal utilizado”.

Tras la aclaración semántica, mencionó que en enero de 2005 se solicitó a la casa hogar Nacidos para Triunfar informes sobre la situación de las hermanas, a lo cual contestó el albergue —el día 25 de ese mes— que únicamente eran visitadas por su abuelo.
Reynoso Flores asegura que el juez de lo familiar publicó edictos para que comparecieran las personas que se creyeran con derecho y notificó a los abuelos que se estaba llevando a cabo el juicio de pérdida de patria potestad. Find y Elvira Velez Pérez, la hermana mayor de Lucero y Estela, aseguran que la familia no estaba enterada de ello (Público Milenio, 25 y 30 de marzo de 2011).

Sobre el motivo para buscar la pérdida de la patria potestad de sólo dos de las tres hermanas que fueron enviadas por el Ministerio Público al albergue citado, Reynoso dijo se debe a que “sólo nos pusieron a disposición a dos, no podemos liberar a una tercera sino se tiene la disposición por parte de la autoridad ministerial”.

Las niñas Lucero y Estela, de ocho y siete años de edad, fueron asignadas a los italianos Aberto Berta y Anna María Grande el 5 de octubre de 2006 para una etapa de convivencia. “Es un proceso de empatía supervisado por un psicólogo, si ven que existe clic o no del menor adoptado con los adoptantes”, que no se dio con la citada pareja. “Toda vez que no hubo el clic con los niños adoptados se desiste”.
En menos de un mes, el 16 de noviembre de 2006, se entregaron a otra pareja: Rinaldo Folco y Patricia Campiani, que finalmente sí aprobaron el periodo de empatía.

Sobre el deseo de Elvira, de volver a ver a sus hermanas, Rubén Reynoso admitió que jurídicamente es difícil, pero señaló que se encuentran bien.

Italy, Mexico
Nacidos para Triunfar

Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek Lawmakers Reluctant to Lift International Adoption Freeze

Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek Lawmakers Reluctant to Lift International Adoption Freeze
March 30, 2011 - 11:31am, by Beishe Bulan
Waiting for a home: Children at a Bishkek orphanage. (Photo: David Trilling)
Waiting for a home: Children at a Bishkek orphanage on February 17. (Photo: David Trilling)
Four-year-old Kaleb speaks English and likes to draw. He shows talent as a pianist and is learning how to read. He has even visited the Kyrgyzstan Embassy in Washington to meet officials from his native country.
Until he was eight months old, Kaleb was Kalychbek Baymyrzaev, an orphan in Kyrgyzstan. Scott and Kami DeBoer of Dayton, Ohio, adopted him in October 2007, just before Kyrgyzstan placed a moratorium on international adoptions. “Kaleb knows that he is adopted and that he was born in Kyrgyzstan,” Scott told EurasiaNet.org.
The first six months in America were difficult. “When we first met Kaleb, he was only 11 pounds. That is very tiny for an eight-month-old. He was not getting enough to eat. He was not sitting up or rolling. He had a lot of trouble sleeping and had night terrors. We kept reassuring him that we were there and after six months he was sleeping through the night. Later he began to smile,” said Kami.
Scott and Kami are waiting to adopt another Kyrgyz boy, Bakyt. When they met in February 2008, he was two months old; now he is over three. “We did not think it would take very long to bring him home. We will keep waiting for Bakyt,” Scott said. “He is a part of our family.”
In 2008, responding to local rumors that foreigners were adopting babies to harvest their organs, the Kyrgyz government imposed a moratorium on international adoptions. Since then, American families, including the DeBoers, have been waiting to bring home 65 children whose adoptions were in progress when the freeze was announced. According to the Ministry of Social Protection, 30 of the 65 orphans have special health conditions and need regular treatment that is difficult to find in Kyrgyzstan. Two have died. Families in Kyrgyzstan have adopted only four.
Since the collapse of Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s administration last spring, new officials have promised to lift the moratorium and allow the adoptions to proceed. But Minister of Social Protection Aygul Ryskulova, who served as Minister of Labor, Employment and Migration under the old regime, says the government is just too busy to deal with the adoptions. What’s more, concerns linger about the process and the Americans’ motivations. “The facts are still being investigated,” Ryskulova said of the motivations behind the original freeze. “During the last three years the Kyrgyz government found out the whereabouts of most of the children [who had been adopted prior to the ban]. Some of them were adopted by Israeli families, some by Germans, some of them by US parents. But we still don’t know where some children are. We don’t have an exact number of internationally adopted children, where they were sent, how they live now. We have to find out this information.”
The United States has urged the new government to speed the investigation and lift the ban. In February, Ambassador Susan Jacobs, Special Advisor to the Office of Children's Issues in the State Department, traveled to Bishkek to assure local officials that Washington will regularly inform them about the adopted children's lives in the United States until they turn 18, according to local media reports.
MP Shirin Aitmatova, who has pushed for the adoption process to be reformed, says her colleagues in parliament have difficulties understanding the urgency of the issue, given the wide array of social and economic challenges facing Kyrgyzstan.
Moreover, she says, anyone wishing to help with reforms must combat the persistent rumors that foreigners are using the Kyrgyz children for profit. “There was fear that children could potentially be used as organ donors. Some people also assume that since American families that adopt receive certain financial benefits and tax breaks, they must be doing it less out of the goodness of their hearts and rather to supplement their income. Many unfounded ideas circulate in the local population regarding foreigners who express the wish to adopt local children,” Aitmatova explained.
In 2007, Mala Tyler adopted a Kyrgyz boy, Beck, and brought him home to Concord, New Hampshire. She urges Bishkek to lift the moratorium, arguing that the delay only hurts the children. “If the Kyrgyz government has concerns about the welfare of the adopted children, then they need not look any further than the children who are already home. They are loved, they are cherished, they are happy. Relinquishing a child, whether by a parent or by a country, is surely not an easy decision -- certainly not to be taken lightly -- but these children have homes and parents and siblings waiting for them. They have a life full of love waiting for them,” Tyler said.
Yet it seems a knee-jerk fear remains a persistent challenge to any hopes for reform.
A parliamentary deputy and former human rights ombudsman, MP Tursunbai Bakir uulu, says that Kyrgyz society is right to be concerned about how these children, often living in underfunded institutions in Kyrgyzstan, will be treated abroad. “There are so many stories when adopted children were abused, humiliated, even killed. I don’t support international adoption,” he told EurasiaNet.org.
Editor's note: 
Beishe Bulan is the pseudonym for a Kyrgyz journalist.
 
United States of America, Kyrgyzstan

Russia, America conclude treaty on adoption

Russia, America conclude treaty on adoption
Mar 30, 2011 21:48 Moscow Time
Boris Altshuler. Photo: RIA Novosti
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The work over the Russian-American which outlines the rules of adopting Russian children by Americans is over. 
Russia also plans to conclude similar treaties with France, the UK, Ireland and some other countries.
The work over the treaty was stirred by several scandalous cases when American foster parents mistreated their adopted Russian children. This work started in April 2010, when a delegation of the US Department of State came to Moscow to discuss this subject. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s statement, which was released at that time, said:
“The new treaty must provide a good mechanism of monitoring the life of adopted children both by Russian and American bodies, in order to prevent cases of violence against adopted children.”
From that time, adoption of Russian children by Americans was suspended until the introduction of the treaty.
Not long before that, it had become known that the American couple Cravers had beaten their adopted Russian son Vanya Skorobogatov to death. The trial of Cravers is not yet over. The American prosecutor is demanding that the both foster parents must be executed.
In an interview to the Voice of Russia, Russian children’s ombudsman Boris Altshuler said:
“This treaty outlines the responsibilities of both sides, in particular, the responsibility of the adopting country to provide good conditions for the child. It also foresees preliminary training of parents and some control over the foster family by relevant experts – not only control by child care services, which is often rather formal. In the US, such services are usually checking a family once in three months. That’s, I think, is too seldom. I think, first, a couple which wants to adopt a child must undergo some preliminary training. After adoption, experts must regularly supervise the family for at least one year – as a rule, the first year is the most difficult one for the child to get accustomed to the new family.”
Only such measures, the Russian children’s ombudsman is convinced, can prevent tragedies like the ones which happened recently with some Russian children in American foster families.
Now, an American court is investigating the case of Jessica Bigley from Alaska. In a TV show named “Mommy Confessions”, Jessica, on her own initiative, has shown a video where she, in order to punish her Russian adopted son for some misbehavior, makes him rinse his moth with chili sauce and stand under an ice-cold shower for a long time. Jessica made her other son film all this. After confessions of this kind, a criminal case was opened against the sadistic foster mother.
United States of America, Russia
Boris Altshuler

From Kenya, John Ondeche inspires at UNC

From Kenya, John Ondeche inspires at UNC

By Josh Clinard | The Daily Tar Heel
By Josh Clinard | The Daily Tar Heel

Updated: 8 hours ago

Five hundred abandoned infants have arrived at John Ondeche’s doorstep since 2002.

They come from passersby, hospitals or police stations to find safety at Ondeche’s New Life Home in his community in Kisumu, Africa.

But Ondeche, who is from Kenya, spent this week away from the children he said he views as his family, visiting UNC to share his story of service with students.

He said he has found the University community very welcoming.

“My wife will be upset when I get on the scale,” Ondeche said.

“Chapel Hill adds five kilograms to my weight.”

But he said students were even more welcoming to the story he had to share — one of a life unexpectedly dedicated to service.

Ondeche said creating a children’s home wasn’t part of his life plan, but after he had worked for 20 years in the banking business, his wife asked him to join her in serving their community.

He agreed, and together the couple created New Life Home, which takes in abandoned children and tries to place them in new families.

Ondeche, one of 21 children, said he sees a very narrow distance between his four biological children and those he takes in.

“We take care of them as parents,” Ondeche said. “But then we have to release them in our hearts because they’ve found a family.”

UNC junior Morgan Abbott has spent the past four summers working with Ondeche in Kisumu.

“New Life Homes rocked my notion of what international aid was supposed to look like,” Abbott said.

She said she had expected a summer in the slums of Africa, but instead worked at an orphanage that provided a comfortable home for children awaiting adoption.

After realizing her passion for helping those children, Abbott founded Carolina for Amani to support The Amani Children’s Foundation and New Life Home.

The organization allows University interns to spend their summer in Kenya digitizing adoption files to make the adoption process more efficient.

And Wednesday afternoon, it hosted an Amani bead jewelry sale in the Campus Y to raise money for the home.

Junior Kaci Hollingsworth, who met Ondeche at the event, said she finds it inspiring that he gave up so much to serve his community.

“He’s been like my second father,” Abbott said. “Just the way I saw him interacting with the kids, and the love, really made it feel like a family.”

This summer, 12 UNC students will join Abbott as credit-earning interns at New Life Home for either three weeks or two months.

“I could be an investment banker or save a kid’s life,” Abbott said. “What’s more important?”

Ondeche’s final event this week will take place in Gardner Hall Friday afternoon. He will discuss development, entrepreneurship, policy and other pressing issues in Kenya.

Contact the University Editor at university@dailytarheel.com.

Kenya
John Ondeche
New Life Home Trust

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Netherlands, Ghana, Germany
Peter and Iris Thiel-Brokman

Prozess um Kinderhandel geht weiter

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Prozess um Kinderhandel geht weiter

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aktualisiert: 29. März 2011

Am Landgericht Schweinfurt wird am Donnerstag ein Prozess fortgeführt, der die Justizbehörden schon rund vier Jahre beschäftigt. Es geht um den Vorwurf des Kinderhandels. Angeklagt sind zwei Frauen aus Hammelburg. Sie sollen im Dezember 2006 ein Baby aus Rumänien ohne rechtliche Grundlage zur Adoption an eine Familie im Landkreis Bad Kissingen vermittelt haben.

Nicoleta Trif
Germany, Romania

Woman Jailed 7 Years For Child Trafficking

Woman Jailed 7 Years For Child Trafficking

Source: Akwasi Ampratwum-Mensah - Daily Graphic
Crime & Punishment | 5 hours ago
  
 SEX IS THE ACT OF RECIEVING AND GIVING OF PLEASANT TOUCH
By: FRANCIS TAWIAH (Duis
The Berekum Circuit Court in the Brong Ahafo Region has convicted a 25-year-old trader, Abena Henewaa, of child trafficking and sentenced her to seven years’ imprisonment with hard labour.

The trader from Agbogbloshie in Accra was found guilty of trafficking a 14-year-old girl from Senase in the Berekum municipality to her (trader’s) residence in Accra.

According to the prosecutor, Inspector Moses Afari Obiri, the victim’s father, Yaw Asomah, and the convict are both natives of Senase, a farming community in the Berekum municipality.

The victim lived with her mother in the Sefwi area of the Western Region but her father decided to take her to Senase to be enrolled in school.

Inspector Obiri said when school broke for holidays, Asomah decided that the victim should go and stay with her grandmother in the same town until school reopened.

He said the convict went to Senase and, after taking the girl as a companion, persuaded her to take her belongings and accompany her to Accra, without the permission of the girl’s relatives.

The grandma, who later saw the victim hiding with her luggage somewhere in the town, became suspicious that the girl was travelling without her knowledge and consent and consequently, seized the luggage but the girl escaped.

The woman then informed Asomah and together, they mounted a search for the girl in the town but could not trace her.

According to Inspector Obiri, the convict succeeded in sending the girl to Accra and engaged her to babysit for her.

Later, Henewaa gave the girl out to a man, Kwadwo Rasta, now at large, for sexual activity.

The prosecutor said the complainant later had information that her missing daughter was in Accra and engaged in sexual exploitation.

Eight months after, the complainant saw her and the convict roaming the streets of Senase and made a report to the police, who arrested the woman and charged her with the offence.
Ghana

Baku-Four children might be adopted by foreigners this year

Baku-Four children might be adopted by foreigners this year

Vasila Mohsumova

By Tahmina Pashayeva

The State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs (SCFWCA) informed that till march, 2011 four foreigner families have been applied to adopt a child. The sector director of the Committee Vasila Mohsumova said that those foreigners’ documents will be checked, if they do not have any problems at that time it will be given a positive response to the foreign families:

“The figures have been changed comparing from the previous years: six children in 2007, two children in 2008, two children in 2009 and two children were adopted by foreigners in 2010”.

Azerbaijan

ORDENAN PRISIÓN A SINDICADO EN CASO DE ADOPCIONES ILEGALES

SYNDICATED ORDERED TO PRISON IN CASE OF ILLEGAL ADOPTION

Guatemala, March 29, 2011. The Fourth Court of First Instance Criminal Court overturned the order of freedom in favor of Marvin Bran Joshua Galindo, accused of participating in illegal adoption procedures, and ordered his immediate arrest by manipulating a witness to declared in his favor.

The decision of the judiciary is derived from the request of the Special Prosecutor Unit Support CICIG UEFAC-prosecutors, who sought to revoke the alternatives that were awarded to Bran Galindo to regain their freedom after being linked to process of trafficking and conspiracy.

Among the means of conviction that the Public Ministry (MP) introduced the measure is highlighted in a statement from the witness, who stated that the accused gave him a manuscript in which the guidelines said that she had declared for ex blame him the accusations.

Add offense
In a second hearing and the same process, the said court added the crime of conspiracy to Alma Beatriz Valle Flores de Mejía, syndicated processes involved in illegal adoptions. This is in addition to trafficking and use of forged documents, for which he was prosecuted to the first statement.

As syndicated apologized for failing to appear at the hearing for alleged ill health, the judge ordered that he have a medical report to determine the veracity of his apology, and it is found otherwise the judge indicated that preventive detention would be ordered.

In this case there are nine persons indicted for his alleged involvement in adoptions handled illegally.

 

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ORDENAN PRISIÓN A SINDICADO EN CASO DE ADOPCIONES ILEGALES

Guatemala, marzo 29 de 2011. El Juzgado Cuarto de Primera Instancia Penal dejó sin efecto la orden de libertad a favor de Marvin Josué Bran Galindo, sindicado de participar en procesos de adopciones ilegales, y ordenó su inmediata aprehensión por manipular a una testigo para que declarara a su favor.

La resolución de la judicatura se derivó de la petición de la Unidad Especial de la Fiscalía de Apoyo a CICIG –UEFAC- del Ministerio Público, que solicitó revocar las medidas sustitutivas que fueron otorgadas a Bran Galindo para que recobrara su libertad después de quedar ligado a proceso por trata de personas y asociación ilícita.

Entre los medios de convicción que el Ministerio Público (MP) presentó en la diligencia se resalta una declaración de la testigo, quien manifestó que el sindicado le entregó un manuscrito en el cual señaló los lineamientos en que ella debía declarar a efecto de ex culparlo de las sindicaciones.

Agregan delito
En una segunda audiencia y en el mismo proceso, el referido juzgado agregó el delito de asociación ilícita a Alma Beatriz Valle Flores de Mejía, sindicada de participar en procesos de adopciones ilegales. Éste se suma al de trata de personas y uso de documentos falsificados, por el cual fue procesada en su primera declaración.

Como la sindicada se excusó de no presentarse a la audiencia por supuestos quebrantos de salud, la jueza ordenó que se le practicara un informe médico para determinar la veracidad de su disculpa, y de comprobarse lo contrario la jueza indicó que se ordenaría la prisión preventiva.

En este caso hay nueve personas procesadas por su presunta participación en adopciones que se tramitaron de manera ilegal.

Alma Beatriz Valle Flores de Mejía, Marvin Bran (aka Marvin Josué Bran Galindo)
Guatemala

Kenya: Three Held as Police Raid Mosque, Find 35 Children

Kenya: Three Held as Police Raid Mosque, Find 35 Children

Kurgat Marindany

28 March 2011

POLICE in Kitengela yesterday raided an Islamic institution and arrested two Pakistanis and a Kenyan alleged to be in the centre of child trafficking syndicate.

A combined force of police officers, officials from the children's department, Ministry of Education and provincial administration led by DO Samuel Mburu raided Noonkopir Mosque in Kitengela and arrested the three and took into custody 35 emaciated children.

Shera Hassan and his wife Rukia Hassan, are alleged to be the local contacts for human traffickers in Pakistan, Qatar and other Arabian countries. The children at the centre, believed to be a breeding ground, are aged between five and 15.

Mburu said most of the children were trafficked into the country from Ethiopia and Somalia and cannot speak in Kiswahili or English. They could not even tell where they came from as most of them were brought in when they were as young as three.

Those who could speak in Kiswahili claimed they were given one meal a day and they are forced to stay indoors most of the times. They had also been instructed not to talk to strangers.

Police also found a freash grave next to the centre, an indication that there may have been some deaths at the centre. Mburu said the suspects had no identification documents and their countries of origin also remained suspect. The DO said the three will appear in court today on charges of child trafficking.

Kenya
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