Authority refusing to recognise adoptions of Mexican-born children, court hears

The family claim the provisions of the 2010 Adoption Act are incompatible with their constitutional rights
Fri, Apr 26, 2013, 05:18

The Adoption Authority in Ireland has refused to recognise or register more than a dozen Mexican-born children adopted by Irish families, the High Court has heard.

The refusal arises because the children’s placements do not comply with provisions of the international agreement on inter-country adoptions – the Hague Convention on Protection of Children – which became law here when the Adoption Act was formally ratified on November 1st, 2010.

One of the families affected, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has brought proceedings against the Adoption Authority and the State over the refusal to recognise the adoption of their daughter. (more…)

(informal Google Translation)

Tricked for $ 3000, extremely poor mothers signed the transfer of custody of their childrenGreat business that corrupts authorities; Find Foundation estimates there are 500,000 missing

Sanjuana Martinez

La Jornada
Sunday December 16, 2012, p. 15

In return for 3000 pesos, Elisa Chavez Garcia lent her child born a month before for 15 days to participate in an advertising campaign against abortion. She never imagined that the document signed ceded custody of the child to a couple in Ireland for the start of a process of adoption.

I did not know, we were misled. Never thought that it was all lies , says in a tone of regret Elisa, single mother of 21 years, in extreme poverty, who was elected with 10 other mothers in a similar situation a national and international network of illegal adoptions, the structure continues to operate with impunity in Mexico, according to Juan Manuel Estrada complaint Juarez, president of the Foundation Find, an organization dedicated to finding missing and stolen children.

It is a national network of child trafficking. Most adoptions of these children is not for people of Jalisco and Colima. They are adopted by people of Nayarit, Mexico state, Chihuahua, Tijuana … and foreigners from different countries, who come to Colima to do the processing. At this time, Colima is paradise of illegal adoptions by lax laws , said in an interview. (more…)

Figures highlight huge increase in adoptions from Ireland

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN | Published Sunday, May 27, 2012, 8:23 AM | Updated Sunday, May 27, 2012, 8:23 AM

Childless Irish couples are flocking to the sunshine state of Florida to adopt babies, according to new figures.

Statistics released by Ireland’s Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald reveal the increase in Florida adoptions.

The figures from Fitzgerald’s department reveal that 17 babies were adopted by Irish couples there in 2011. (more…)

The Irish Times – Friday, January 27, 2012

MARIE O’HALLORAN

A CLAIM by the Minister for Children viagra there is no evidence that previous adoptions in Mexico by Irish couples are unsafe has been challenged in the Dáil.

Frances Fitzgerald referred to the controversy in Mexico where 11 Irish couples had been questioned following the discovery of an international child-smuggling ring, after the arrest of three local women accused of buying children from their mothers.

During a Dáil debate on inter-country adoption, Ms Fitzgerald assured parents who had previously adopted from Mexico that the Adoption Authority of Ireland “has no evidence that previous adoptions are unsafe or are affected by the recent events in Mexico”.

Socialist Party TD Clare Daly questioned the statement and said that of 92 children adopted by Irish couples, 60 were arranged by a lawyer called Lopez, who was being sought by police in Mexico. (more…)

Source: http://www.foxnews.com
Published January 23, 2012| Associated Press

ZAPOPAN, MEXICO – Life seemed to give Karla Zepeda a break when a woman came to her dusty neighborhood of cinderblock homes and dirt roads looking for babies to photograph in an anti-abortion ad campaign.

The woman asked to use the 15-year-old’s baby girl in a two-week photo shoot for $755, a small fortune for a teen mother who earns $180 a month at a sandwich stand and shares a small, one-story house with her disabled mother, stepfather, and three brothers.

But 9-month-old Camila wasn’t just posing for photographs.

Jalisco state investigators say the child was left for weeks at a time in the care of an Irish couple who had come to Ajijic, a town of cobblestone streets and gated communities 37 miles away, thinking they were adopting her. (more…)

CAROL COULTER, Legal Affairs Editor

The Irish Times – Friday, November 11, 2011

VIETNAM HAS ratified the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, allowing Irish couples to adopt children from the country once more. The ratification will come into force on February 1st.

Until 2009, adoptions into Ireland from Vietnam took place under a bilateral agreement between the two countries. (more…)

CAROL COULTER, Legal Affairs Editor

Mon, Oct 10, 2011

THE HEALTH Service Executive paid more than €200,000 in 2010 to an adoption agency in Cork which deals with adoptions from Vietnam, despite the fact adoptions from that country were suspended in May 2009.

The money was paid through the HSE in Cork to the Cork-based Helping Hands adoption agency, set up in 2005 to assist couples adopting from Vietnam. (more…)

The Irish Times – Monday, October 10, 2011
CAROL COULTER

DELEGATIONS FROM the Adoption Authority of Ireland will travel to Mexico, the Philippines and the United States to discuss adoption agreements, the International Adoption Association was told at the weekend.

Geoffrey Shannon, chairman of the authority, told its annual conference it was in advanced discussions with a number of countries party to the Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption after the incorporation of the convention into Irish law last year.

He confirmed the authority was looking at Lithuania and Kazakhstan as prospective countries for adoption into Ireland, and said it would look at other Hague countries that came to the attention of prospective adoptive parents. (more…)