Adoptions, broke the case of the non-profit organization Enzo B: families pay, but no children
Date: 17/01/15
Adoptions, broke the case of the non-profit organization Enzo B: families pay, but no children
etiopia2Dozens of families would be entrusted to non-profit Turin Enzo B to adopt a child in Ethiopia, they would have shelled out in advance sums up to over 10 thousand euro, and they would not receive any services in return, without ever to conclude the adoption. Now the prosecutor of Turin has opened an investigation. He talks about it in this article, published Sunday, January 15th by the newspaper "La Repubblica", which we quote in full.
The case of Ethiopia will be the damnation of Enzo B, the agency for international adoptions was born in Turin in 2004 who is accused of dozens of families had set up a colossal scam that has been going on since at least 2011. Even the prosecutor in Turin opened an investigation after the complaint of a family. Are more than a hundred couples who wanted to adopt and which tell that it has assigned tasks to the Turin non-profit organization to provide a home for orphaned children in Ethiopia. All contributions have been sought in advance to figures ranging from 3750 EUR for training days, up to more than ten thousand euro. Without, in return, receive any services. And above all, never to conclude the adoption.
The procedures have remained for years in the drawers of the office via Onorato Vigliani, in the "Village" of Enzo B, in some cases have never even been translated. Only in 2013 the institution has indicated that the African country had closed adoptions taps, and Notwithstanding it seems to have continued to take positions until 2014. For anyone going to knock on the door of the non-profit organization founded by Stefano Bernardi and Cristina Nespoli, the answer is silence.
"Family for Children" is the name of a spontaneous committee formed by couples of all Italian born to collect the stories of the many adoptive families who have ended up in this tunnel with no way out. Very few of them have sufficient economic resources to target new agencies or look to other countries, starting all over again after waiting in vain for years. All those who have seen fade away, helpless, hope to have a son like they had imagined, possibly small, victims of a ruthless but necessary procedure which assigns newborns to young couples and older children as they age parents. "At the puzzle of our families still missing a piece. In this time we waited patiently for our journey might be fulfilled. Through the years we have accepted any kind of justification, and we extended our indefinite expectations "they write, now, in an open letter to the Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni. They knocked on the doors of the empty Cai, the Commission for International Adoptions, the institution has a duty to supervise the 63 private institutions working in the field. They promoted parliamentary questions that have fallen on deaf ears. Denounce a system that resembles a jungle where families who wish to have an adopted child are required to rely without a parachute to unscrupulous middlemen free from any control.
The case of Ethiopia is so striking that brought out around "Family for children" even cases of the past, stories of couples who have got into difficulties in the relationship with EnzoB, but who have not had the courage to denounce. Because the child have been granted. And, ultimately, the system seems to suggest that an adopted child is a privilege, and to have it you have to endure in silence heavy compromises. Even today, a year after his return to Italy will not hold the tears this Turin mother who has a child of eight years (probably), which comes from China. Along with him he was for months "prisoner" in the house, because the baby was terrified from the outside. "We only found out after a long time, when we finally got through to him - he says - he did not know the adoption, they sent him to Italy, saying that he would do a holiday. That Italy would have looked watched Chinese television. He had violent crisis because he did not stay with us. Enzo B has entrusted to us in China to a person who worked as a tour guide, not a mediator or a psychologist. And here in Italy it is disinterested. When I called, desperate, I answered me that the problem was me, that I was not ready to work as a parent. " Only for practices this family paid the institution about 20 thousand euro.
But one of these couples, a family of Turin, which has given the task to Ethiopia in 2011 and in five years did not have any service, let alone a child, decided to present a statement in the prosecution after for years asked unnecessarily explanations. Enzo B received only denials. No one has ever even explained how the 11 000 euro paid for the job they were employed. It is the prosecutor Nicoletta Quaglino survey coordinator on this individual case. Many other couples are ready to jump on the bandwagon of the association if the investigation, as they hope, were to take off.
http://www.aibi.it/ita/adozioni-scoppia-il-caso-della-onlus-enzo-b/