Countries: India, Germany
Adoption Agencies: St. Theresa’s Tender Loving Care Home
Anisha was born in 1992 and was taken by the ‘Tender Loving Care Home’, because her mother Fatima could not pay the hospital bill. Sister Theresa then had her adopted by a German couple. Fathima did not see her child for the next 28 years.
ACT helped Anisha to retrace her mother.
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20 February 2013 , By Staff Reporter
Demanding that international adoption be stopped from India till comprehensive laws are put in place to prevent ‘trafficking’ of children in the name of adoption, parents of children who were fraudulently or forcefully taken away and put into inter-country adoption held a meeting in the Capital on Tuesday demanding urgent Government intervention in the matter.
Speaking about her daughter who went missing in 2009 from Chennai, Fatima said: “My child was picked up from near my house and after the police investigation we found that the child had been given up for adoption to an Australian family. There has been no co-operation from the Australian Government or the adoptive parents and we have been able to speak with our daughter only once so far. I appeal to the Indian Government to help get my child back.’’ (more…)
Bangalore: Feb 19, 2013 DHNS
Activists urge overhaul of laws in bid to curb child trafficking
Child rights activists demanded an overhauling of adoption laws and a ban on inter country adoptions citing instances of child trafficking. Around 10 parents from various states came to talk about their experiences of child trafficking related to adoptions abroad on Tuesday at a press conference.
The activists said many adoption agencies are involved in inter-country adoption scandals and despite written complaints to CARA (Central Adoption Resource Agency) they are still running.
“In many cases even the CBI has confirmed trafficking. However, these agencies are still running, some have changed their names,” said Anjali, an activist from Pune.
The activists said so far there has been no segregated data compiled by CARA on how many adoptions are in waiting, how many children are free for adoption, how many children are in the special needs category and how many inter-country adoptions have taken place. “The first flaw is that CARA has only adoption guidelines and does not have a law. Some guidelines are vague, like CARA claims that preference will be given to intra-country adoptions, and children with special needs will be given for inter-country adoption,” said activist Bharti Ali. (more…)
Source: http://www.timesnow.tv/Children-or-commodities/articleshow/4340812.cms
17 Mar 2010, 1840 hrs IST
18 year old Anisha Mortel lives all alone in Germany. Abandoned by her foster parents after they separated, Anisha came to India in search of her biological mother who claims her daughter was sold off by a children’s home who had stolen her. TIMES NOW investigates the reasons why children like Anisha Mortel are forever searching answers to who really is responsible for what they are.
Anisha was born in 1992 and was entrusted to ‘Tender Loving Care Home’. All that Fathima wanted for her daughter was a better life. She says a children’s home promised her exactly that. Fathima did not see her child for the next 28 years. Fathima, Anisha’s biological mother, said, “I went back to ask for my kid. She said don’t ask for the child. You gave her off to us. I protested. But she said give money for taking care of the child. I didn’t have any. She sold off the kid for 6 lakh.” Fatima had handed over her baby to Sister Teresa who counters the claim. Sister Teresa said, “What money is Anisha’s mother talking about, she wanted to sell the child. She threw the child here. The baby was sick. I was taking care of her.” Tender Loving Care Home is under the scanner in adoption racket. (more…)
By RAYMOND BONNER
Published: June 23, 2003
HYDERABAD, India, June 16— Sharon Van Epps remembers the day she first held Haseena, with her rich black hair and dark eyes. The baby, just beginning to walk, did not make a sound, just held on to her tightly.
”I felt like something I’d been missing my whole life that I didn’t even know I’d been missing had been found,” she recalled.
Ms. Van Epps, an American freelance writer, saw Haseena nearly every day afterward, bonding with the girl she hoped to adopt with her husband, John Clements, a partner in a major accounting firm. The couple had received nearly all the necessary approvals from agencies in the United States and India, and Ms. Van Epps expected to leave here with Haseena within two months. (more…)
Source:http://hindu.com
T. V. Sivanandan
GULBARGA, APRIL 28. Two senior police officers from the State have been sent to Hyderabad to question the former film actress, Ms. Amala Akkineni, in connection with the alleged adoption racket, and her role in St. Theresa’s Tender Loving Care Home which is one of the orphanages suspected to be involved in the racket.
A senior police officer connected with the investigation of the sale of female infants from Lambada tandas in Gulbarga District to orphanages in Andhra Pradesh expressed surprise over the denial by Ms. Amala, wife of the Telugu superstar, Mr. Nagarjuna Akkineni, of her involvement. He told The Hindu that the State police had documentary evidence to prove that Ms. Amala was the honorary President of St. Theresa’s Tender Loving Care Home and was closely connected with the activities of the home.
The officer clarified that the State police had never said that Ms. Amala knew about the activities of the orphanage run by St. Theresa’s Hospital and were only pursuing the leads provided by the main accused, Christopher, who had said that the children procured from the Konchavaram tandas were given to St. Theresa’s Tender Loving Care Home.
The State police were also not sure whether Ms. Amala was aware that the orphanage was involved in an adoption racket. The State police would only seek some clarifications from her about the functioning of the orphanage and the presence of two babies there suspected to be from the Lambada tandas. (more…)
