Part 3 on adoption fraud in Congo: "They wanted only girls Nobody wanted Jacques."

Part 3 on adoption fraud in Congo: "They wanted only girls Nobody wanted Jacques."

TEXT: KURT WERTELAERS PICTURE: THE BENOIT FREINE

8/05/17 - 07:00

"He's right!" If we show the pictures of the little Jacques we made three days earlier, start to dance the people of his native village and sing. © Benoit Freine.

VIDEO "I was already in the car, but I forgot my sandals. I have them go get quickly into the orphanage. When I walked out, I saw driving away the car. It's my fault, I should never have forgotten my sandals . I miss my friends a lot. " But it was not the little Jacques debt (7). He just did not fit the profile of adoption. While his real parents 850 kilometers from Kinshasa did not know where their child, Jacques remained in the orphanage.

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As a photographer and I Benoit in Gemena, in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo, say goodbye to the parents of Samira, Zakiatu and Jaelle, is distant dad Malachi. His son, Jacques, was at the time put the same list on the same plane from Gemena to Kinshasa "for a short break." But the girls were offered for adoption in our country. Jacques stayed behind. He was, as human rights organizations in Congo had our days previously stated, an "excuse child" because it would stand if there were transported only girls. "Jacques was sukkeltje service. Taken on a flight to Kinshasa, knowing full well that at that time no adoptive parents were available to him. Nobody wanted to Jacques."

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