Laos probes sale of babies to Australians

by: From correspondents in Hanoi
From: AFP
February 06, 20127:55PM

LAOS is investigating a retired justice ministry official for allegedly selling adopted babies to Australians, Americans and Canadians for thousands of dollars each.

The official is accused of seeking out unwanted babies in poor rural areas, obtaining adoption papers and selling the infants to foreigners for up to $5,000 each, according to a Radio Free Asia report today. (more…)

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Adoption case raises fears over trafficking

Source: http://www.smh.com.au Geesche Jacobsen
August 30, 2011
A FOUR-year old girl who had been informally given to a Sydney couple under a traditional Samoan adoption arrangement should return to her parents in Samoa, the Family Court has ruled.

The girl known as ”S” had been promised to a childless great aunt and her husband before birth, but had lived with her parents and seven siblings in Samoa until she was nearly two years old.

Within days of delivering S to the couple in western Sydney in February 2009, the girl’s mother decided she wanted to keep the child. But before she could leave Australia, the couple – known in court as Mr and Ms Tomas – had filed proceedings which stopped S from leaving.

Two years later, the court has ruled that it would be best for S – a happy and healthy child who related to both sets of parents – to return to Samoa. (more…)

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Profit, not care: The ugly side of overseas adoptions

Date: 2011-06-05

Lax regulation and an endless demand by childless couples in the West has created an often exploitative market in babies born in the developing world

By Laurie Penny
Sunday, 5 June 2011

In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is $5,000 (£3,000), some 600 children are missing. They were taken by agents who came to the villages promising that they would educate the children and give them a better life in the capital, sometimes for a steep fee. The children never returned. (more…)

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China’s government trafficking babies from poor families

Date: 2011-05-15
Source: http://www.youtube.com

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CBI files chargesheet in Preet Mandir case

It contains names of 114 witnesses, 168 documents against accused

Vijay Chavan
Posted On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 at 06:03:07 AM

The Special Crime Branch of the CBI on Tuesday filed an 87-page chargesheet against six accused including trustees of Preet Mandir and then chairman of Child Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) for their alleged involvement in illegal child procurement racket and extorting money from the parents. (more…)

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Senate calls inquiry into forced adoptions

Posted Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:30pm AEDT

The Senate is to inquire into the Commonwealth’s role in the forced adoption policies from the 1940s to the 1980s.

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has won support of the Senate for the issue to be considered by the Community Affairs References Committee. (more…)

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Call for federal inquiry into forced adoptions

Posted Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:49am AEDT

A group of mothers who gave up their babies gather at parliament to hear a formal apology (Marcus Alborn)

The WA Labor MP David Templeman is calling for a federal inquiry into the forced adoption practices of last century. (more…)

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WA government apologises to unwed mums

Angie Raphael
October 19, 2010 – 5:29PM

A woman who was handcuffed to a bed, drugged and forced to give up her newborn baby for adoption says an official apology has helped her regain her “selfhood”. (more…)

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Newborns ripped out of their mothers’ arms

Katherine Fenech

September 7, 2010 – 12:52PM
The WA government will become the first in the country to apologise to unmarried women forced to give up their children to adoption between the 1940s and early 1980s.

The single mothers were stopped from seeing, touching or naming their children immediately after they were born. Women were also asked to sign adoption papers earlier than five days after they gave birth. (more…)

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Single mothers to get apology

Published: Sept. 1, 2010 at 1:27 PM 

PERTH, Australia, Sept. 1 (UPI) — Single mothers who had their children taken from them by the state of Western Australia will get an apology in October, a government official said Wednesday.

In what is believed to be a worldwide first, single mothers will receive an official apology from the government of Western Australia for the forced adoption of their children by the state between 1940 and the mid-1980s. Children were taken from their mothers at birth and were given up for adoption without the mothers’ consent. (more…)

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