Adoption children’s home questioned (Pisingos)

Date: 2013-04-27

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Source: http://www.elespectador.com
Investigting mysterious donation in London for $ 3.4 million

With nearly half a century of tradition in child protection and adoption, cFoundation was suspended.
By: Hernández Quevedo Norbey

In order to help homeless children, in May 1968 a group of 22 couples decided to create Pisingos Foundation in Bogota. A laudable initiative which for more than four decades became the benchmark for protection of thousands of poor children and an international model for the adoption of infants. However, this week the philanthropic legacy was challenged because millionaires unholy financial dealings resulted in the loss of the operating license and the suspension of legal status for six months.

For several years were an open secret doubts persist about foster homes. First, infrastructure, and second, to rumors about dealings under the table when delivering children for adoption. Preference whiff of foreigners before the nationals.

In 2005 there was a bell. Several houses handed over to families making 383 foreign children. In exchange for donations received about U.S. $ 2.3 million went to accounts in Panama, Cayman Islands, New York and Colombia. Also last year the Attorney showed that several establishments adoption of Bogota, Cali and Medellin operated without control. (more…)

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Moscow to create database of Russian children with foreign families – Lavrov

Source: http://rt.com/politics
Edited time: March 22, 2013 19:37Share on Tumblr

Russia is working on a database on all Russian children adopted by foreigners says Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Moscow will push for a US response to its requests into suspected cases of abuse of Russian kids in adoptive American families.

Lavrov addressed MPs on Friday after a string of scandals regarding Russian kids adopted by American families. In one of the most recent developments, three-year-old Maksim Kuzmin died in Texas at the end of January. Although US prosecutors have not laid any charges on Maksim’s adoptive parents due to the lack of evidence, Russia has launched its own investigation.

The minister said that when a Russia kid is adopted by an American family – or any other foreign family – in most cases they lose their Russian names. (more…)

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Algeria postpones trial of suspected child traffickers

Source: http://www.expatica.com/
17/2/2013

The criminal court in Algiers on Sunday postponed the trial of 13 people, including French-Algerians, suspected of trafficking an unknown number of Algerian children.
The case involves the alleged kidnapping of Algerian children, who were taken to Saint Etienne in France and given up for adoption in return for money.
Judge Omar Ben Kherchi postponed the trial because six defendants, including French citizens of Algerian origin, did not appear in court. Seven defendants did appear.
Algerian security services busted the alleged child-trafficking ring in 2009.
In addition to child kidnapping and trafficking, the defendants are also accused of conducting criminal operations and forgery.

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Charity staff jailed for African child-smuggling

Updated: 12 Feb 2013 15:27 GMT+01:00

BREAKING NEWS: Two charity workers have been sentenced in Paris to two years in prison for attempting to smuggle 103 children from Chad to France in 2007.

Eric Breteau and Emilie Lelauch, from the Zoe’s Ark charity, were also fined €100,000 by the court, according to French media reports on Tuesday.

As the charity’s managing director Breteau, and his assistant Lelauch had attempted to pass off the children in question as orphans from the war and famine-stricken region of Darfur.

They were accused by the government of Chad of kidnapping after emerged the children were not Sudanese and most still had living relatives.

Breteau, Lelouch, doctor Philippe van Winkelberg, logistics operators Alain Peligat and Dominique Aubry and nurse Nadia Merimi were all originally sentenced to eight years of hard labour in Chad.

Under a deal with Chad, they were repatriated to France and had their sentences adjusted to jail time there, before finally being pardoned in March 2008 by President Idriss Deby Itno.

They were then retried in France.

 

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French NGO members face trial for smuggling fake Darfur orphans

Source:

http://www.english.rfi.fr
Article published the Monday 03 December 2012  

AFP By RFI

The trial of a group of French NGO members accused of trying to smuggle 103 children out of Chad for adoption on France began Monday. But the two principal defendants are not in the dock – they’re living and working in South Africa.

In October 2007 Chadian police arrested 17 members of French NGO l’Arche de Zoé at Abéché airport, in eastern Chad, in the company of 103 children wearing bandages and plasters, although they were not injured.

The group claimed that the children were orphans from Darfur, the wartorn region in southern Sudan that borders on Chad, but most of them turned out to be Chadian and hardly any were actually orphans. (more…)

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Made in Colombia;The Right to be a Father (Part 2)

14 April 2012


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Die verschwundenen Kinder von El Salvador

Source:  http://derstandard.at 
29. August 2011 23:29

Viele Bürgerkriegsopfer wurden von Militärs für Adoptionen im Ausland entführt
San Salvador – Das verknitterte und vergilbte Schwarz-Weiß-Foto hütet Raúl wie einen Schatz. Es ist das Einzige, was er von seiner Mutter noch hat. Als Raúl vier Jahre alt war, brachte seine Mutter ihn und den um ein Jahr jüngeren Jorge in einem kirchlichen Kinderheim in Sicherheit vor den Wirren des salvadorianischen Bürgerkriegs. Mit sieben erfuhr Raúl, dass seine Mutter tot war.

Sie war in den kirchlichen Basisgemeinden aktiv, die vom Militär als Zuarbeiter der Guerilla verdächtigt wurden. 1992 endete der Bürgerkrieg in dem mittelamerikanischen Land. Raúl war 15, er und sein Bruder blieben Kriegswaisen. Rund 75.000 Menschen starben im Bürgerkrieg, mehr als 8000 gelten immer noch als verschwunden, darunter 871 Kinder. (more…)

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Indo-french baby trade commission

French man, Indian woman booked for taking infants out of the country with fake documents; cops say it’s part of a larger scam

Abhijit Sathe
Posted On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 03:44:18 AM

The Mumbai Police is searching for a 22-year-old woman believed to be the key in a large scam involving the trafficking of infants from India to countries where commercial surrogacy is illegal. (more…)

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Salvadoran group dogged in search for children missing years ago in civil war

Source:  http://www.bellinghamherald.com  
POSTED: Sunday, Jul. 24, 2011

 By KEN ELLINGWOOD - Los Angeles Times

GUARJILA, EL SALVADOR Her name is Milagro, or it was before her mother’s heart broke into a million bits.

The girl was 4, dark-toned and skinny. On the day soldiers took her away, she wore a violet dress with short sleeves and tiny pleats. She had no shoes.

“They took my girl and said, ‘Go, old lady!’ ” recalled her mother, Enma Orellana. The woman ran in fear, looking back just once, when the girl cried, “Mama!”

That was 29 years ago, when El Salvador waged war with itself and left hurts that have never healed. In the turmoil, more than 800 children disappeared, often into the hands of Salvadoran soldiers who used brutal tactics to battle leftist rebels and sympathizers.

The youngsters, including some whose parents had died, often ended up in orphanages under made-up names. Many were funneled by unscrupulous lawyers into a lucrative international adoption market or kept by the same military officers who took them. At least 400 remain missing. (more…)

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Libya: 105 Children Kidnapped in Misrata Orphanage

Source: http://www.mathaba.net
Posted: 2011/07/13

From: Mathaba

World silent as Libyan children abducted and disappear abroad to unknown fate

TRIPOLI (mathaba)—“Libya´s Social Welfare minister Ibrahim Sharif has denounced that 53 young girls and 52 boys were kidnapped from the Misrata Orphanage,” said Telesur TV special envoy to the Northern African nation, Rolando Segura. (more…)

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