Grandmother’s investigation plea against Preet Mandir dismissed

Date: 2012-01-05

Asseem Shaikh TNN

Pune: A special court’s refusal on Tuesday to issue direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to further probe into the inter-country adoption racket, involving the city-based Preet Mandir, has left a 70-year-old woman distressed in her fight against the adoption centre to get back her two granddaughters.

Kisabai Tulsiram Lokhande, a resident of Khandala in Satara district, had handed over her granddaughters — Komal and Ashwini — to an observation home at Karad for taking care and providing education, following the death of their parents in 2004-05. However, the Satara child welfare committee without taking Lokhande’s consent shifted the girls to Preet Mandir for rehabilitation. (more…)

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How Ethiopia’s Adoption Industry Dupes Families and Bullies Activists

By Kathryn Joyce
Dec 21 2011, 7:19 AM ET 2

As the “searchers” who track down adopted children’s histories increasingly uncover stories of fraud, corruption, and worse, these specialists are facing threats and even violence

Mirette and Elsabet Franklin, ages 4 and 6, biological sisters adopted in Ethiopia, listen to the singing of the national anthem during a U.S. naturalization ceremony / AP

In 2008, a 38-year old Oklahoma nurse whom I’ll call Kelly adopted an eight-year old girl, “Mary,” from Ethiopia. It was the second adoption for Kelly, following one from Guatemala. She’d sought out a child from Ethiopia in the hopes of avoiding some of the ethical problems of adopting from Guatemala: widespread stories of birthmothers coerced to give up their babies and even payments and abductions at the hands of brokers procuring adoptees for unwitting U.S. parents. Now, even after using a reputable agency in Ethiopia, Kelly has come to believe that Mary never should have been placed for adoption. She came to this determination after hiring what’s known as an adoption searcher. (more…)

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Gestohlene Kinder- Auslandsadoption in Indien

Date: 2011-12-20


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Glück auf Bestellung

6 November 2011

Die wachsende Nachfrage nach Adoptionen führt zum Kinderhandel

Eine Adoption kostet heute je nach Land und Agentur 9000 bis 16 000 Euro. Weltweit führend bei Auslandsadoptionen sind die USA. In Europa liegen Italien, Spanien und Frankreich an der Spitze. In Deutschland kommen auf ein freigegebenes Kind etwa zehn Eltern, die ein Kind zur Adoption suchen.

Die Organisation “Against Child Trafficking” fordert, Auslandsadoptionen komplett zu verbieten. “Der Handel mit Kindern ist gesteuert von der Nachfrage des Westens. Wir sind nicht gegen Adoption, sondern gegen Kinderhandel”, sagt die niederländische Menschenrechtsaktivistin Roelie Post. “Das Problem ist, dass sich beides nicht mehr voneinander trennen lässt.” Post war bis 2005 in der EU zuständig für den Schutz von Kinderrechten in Rumänien. Damals sorgte sie dafür, dass Rumänien die Adoption von Kindern ins Ausland komplett stoppte – wegen der kriminellen Strukturen. Nun erlebt sie, wie in anderen Ländern, in Indien, in Äthiopien, in Haiti, ein neuer Markt entsteht. (more…)

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BETTER STAY AWAY FROM PREETMANDIR, Mr BHASIN

Date:  2011-10-19
Kaumudi Gurjar
Special CBI judge takes serious note of MiD DAY expose, tells Preetmandir former managing trustee J S Bhasin not to violate court order again by entering orphanage premises
LESS than four months since a MiD DAY sting operation at the Preetmandir orphanage showed former managing trustee J S Bhasin violating a court order that had restrained him from entering the Preetmandir premises, Special CBI Judge D R Mahajan took serious note of the MiD DAY expose and warned Bhasin against repeating the act.
It may be recalled that even as the Preetmandir controversy over allegations of financial irregularities and child trafficking was raging and the case was being heard in courtrooms, MiD DAY had found Bhasin in the office of the adoption home. (more…)
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Bhasin’s Preet Mandir entry: Inquiry ordered

Source: http://www.mid-day.com

Women and Child Development Department takes note of court order violation by orphanage’s former managing trustee, asks District Women and Child Officer to submit report on incident

After a MiD DAY sting operation exposed the violation of a court order by Preet Mandir’s former managing trustee J S Bhasin, the Women and Child Development (WCD) Department yesterday took serious note of the matter and ordered an inquiry. Bhasin was found inside the adoption home’s office in spite of a special CBI court having granted him bail on the condition that he keep off the premises. MiD DAY carried the report yesterday (What are you doing in Preet Mandir, Mr Bhasin) with photographic evidence of Bhasin’s presence in the adoption home’s office. (more…)

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Canadian parents wary as China confronts baby trafficking

May 25, 2011 9:47 PM | By Leslie MacKinnon

When Cathy Wagner of Bridgewater, N.S., heard a CBC story last week about babies stolen from their families several years ago in Hunan province, her reaction was that nothing has changed.

She’s the mother of a 5-year-old girl adopted from the same region in China. “It’s like a dirty secret”, she says, “but it’s time we started talking about it.”

CBC News’ China correspondent, Anthony Germain, interviewed two parents in China who said the family-planning officials who enforce the country’s one-child policy seized at least 20 babies, including their own, and sent them to orphanages to be adopted abroad.

“By changing their identities and processing the stolen children through legally recognized orphanages, the chances of any impoverished Chinese parent ever finding their child are almost nonexistent,” Germain reported. (more…)

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Children for Sale – Ethiopia/Netherlands

Netherland – Broadcast Brandpunt KRO – 9 January 2011

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Mandir: After phone threat, FB messages disturb complainant

DECEMBER 19
 
OVER a month after advocate Anjali Pawar-
Kate, director of voluntary organisation Sakhee
and the main complainant in the alleged Preet
Mandir adoption racket approached Sahakarnagar
police over telephone threats believed to be
from a member of a South African adoptive family,
she’s now troubled by derogatory messages on
Facebook, posted in the community ‘Against
Child Trafficking’ on FB, by some other international
adoptive families. (more…)
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Battle of international adoptions reaches peak

The European Commission Forges Official Report
Autor: MIRCEA OPRIS 3 decembrie 2010

The European Commission has falsified an official report, released only partially exactly one year ago, during the Conference on Challenges in Adoption Procedures in Europe, in Strasbourg from 30 November to 1 December 2009. Exclusively for Jurnalul National several experts testified about the pressure put on their work by high-rank European Commission officials, in order to get to the conclusion that there is a need for the establishment of a European Adoption Agency. The stake of the new agency: creating a “market” for European adoptions in which Romania would be forced to reopen international adoptions. Behind this decision are pro-adoption lobbies from France, Italy, Spain and the United States. (more…)

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