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JULY 3, 2009

China Checks Out Charges Babies Taken From Home

By GORDON FAIRCLOUGH

SHANGHAI -- Authorities in southern China are investigating allegations that local officials took babies from their parents between 2003 and 2005 and delivered them to an orphanage that press reports said has offered children for overseas adoption.

Orphanage scandal officials punished

By Tom Qian | 2009-7-3 | NEWSPAPER EDITION

SIX government officials in southwest China have been punished over an orphanage scandal when three children were taken away from their families who could not afford fines for violating family planning regulations.

The orphanage sent the children overseas for adoption from 2004 to 2006, a Guizhou-based newspaper reported today.

The six officials received warnings from the Party or administrative punishments from the local government, according to the Guiyang Evening Post report.

Adoption scammer pleads guilty

By COLBY FRAZIER — July 3, 2009

A former Montecito businessman who swindled $800,000 from 59 hopeful parents through his adoption business, pleaded guilty in Superior Court yesterday to 17 felonies and a white-collar crime enhancement.

Wearing a light-blue shirt, dark pants and a tie, with shackles around his hands and feet, the defendant, Orson Mozes, said plainly that he was guilty, and acknowledged he felt “very comfortable” with the plea bargain he had negotiated with prosecutors.

Although the man won’t be sentenced until July 14, Senior Deputy District Attorney Paula Waldman said he most likely would be sentenced to three years and four months in state prison, with three years of parole. Mozes, 57, also faces a civil lawsuit in the state of Pennsylvania that was jointly filed by 17 of the adoption scam victims. Additionally, Mozes conceded to forfeit $300,000 in cash and gold coins that were seized from his Florida home. The funds will be used to repay the victims, some of whom, Waldman said, are owed amounts as high as $75,000.

Christianity becomes a driving force in adoptions

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July 03, 2009 5:00 PM

MARK BARNA

The Gazette

Girls seized, handed over for adoption

Foreign families paid officials and orphanages

Fiona Tam

Jul 02, 2009

About 80 newborn baby girls from a county in Guizhou have been confiscated from their parents by family planning officials since 2001 and handed over to foreign adoptive parents as orphans at a price of US$3,000 each, state media reported.

Adoption down, abandonment up

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Nina Nayak to head child rights panel

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Bangalore: The long-pending proposal to constitute the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has come to fruition with the Karnataka Government appointing well-known child rights activist Nina Nayak as its chairperson.

Ms. Nina Nayak is a former chairperson of the Child Welfare Committee in Bangalore, vice-president of the Indian Council for Child Welfare, and a member of the sub-committee on children in the Planning Commission.

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS

More single black women are adopting, adoption official says

Single black woman says inability of black men to commit led to adoption decision

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Pressure to be mother takes emotional toll on black women, some say

"Create" an abandoned child

Author: Bao Xiaodong original page: 2388 Time :2009-07-01

Revision: AT01 version Name: the depth of cover is issued on the weekly Source: Nanfang Dushi Abstract: ? Guizhou welfare Zhenyuan County will pay a fine of not be able to bounce back baby taken away by force ? in the notice referred to as "abandoned baby" ???abroad ???a profit every child welfare dollars to be sponsored by 3000;

? Zhenyuan County in Guizhou welfare penalty will not be able to bounce back to pay the baby taken away by force ? in the notice referred to as "abandoned baby" ? ???foreign profit per??a child welfare dollars to be sponsored by 3000;

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Reported theft of girls from families to give them up for adoption by foreigners

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About 80 babies in the province of Guizhou (southwestern China) were confiscated by authorities for family planning to parents who violated the one-child policy in the last eight years and given up for adoption to families from other countries, including Spain, announced today the independent press china.