Mother Declah

Countries: India, The Netherlands
Adoption agencies: Malaysian Social Services, Meiling

Declah placed her childen in an orphanage run by the Malaysian Social Service. The adoption agency assured her that it would educate the children and send them to her when they were 18 years old. She gave up four of her children. While two were returned to her, Melissa and James Kapil were put up for adoption abroad without her knowledge.

When a major scandal broke out in 2005, she learnt that the adoption agency had kidnapped and sold several children to couples abroad. Dekla immediately rushed to Chennai, but there was no trace of her children. Their foster parents had separated legally and Melissa and Miquel were placed in a government-run home in the Netherlands. 

ACT helped Declah to retrace her children.

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Family’s 14 year long trauma ends

Source:http://www.timesnow.tv
20 Aug 2010, 0907 hrs IST
14 years after they were separated, teenagers Miquel & Melissa were re-united with their parents in Kanyakumari. They were given up for adoption illegally by an agency in Chennai in 1996.

Dekla Selvan has spent the last fourteen years in agony… waiting for this one moment to get a glance of 19 year-old Melissa and 18 year-old Miquel, her two children who were given up for adoption illegally. (more…)

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Dutch teenagers reunite with mother in TN hamlet

Dutch teenagers reunite with mother in TN hamlet

Jaya Menon, TNN, Aug 20, 2010, 04.19am IST

CHENNAI: “I am happy. I am with my real family now,” 18-year-old Miquel said on Thursday after an emotional reunion with his family in Kootapuli, a fishing hamlet near Kanyakumari. It’s a far cry from the beautiful seaside town of Middelburg in The Netherlands where he lives with his 19-year-old sister. But for Miquel and Melissa it was an homecoming they had been dreaming of since they came to know they had a family in India. (more…)

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Dutch teens arrive for reunion with family

 Frontpage Chennai Edition 19.08.2010

Illegal Adoption Landed Them In Netherlands 14 Years Ago
Jaya Menon | TNN

Kanyakumari: A strong sea breeze whips through Kootupuli, a hamlet dotted with windmills and new houses built post-tsunami. There is much excitement in a cramped, brightly-painted house in the colony over a reunion. This is where two Dutch teenagers, Melissa, 19, and her brother Miquel, 18, will meet their mother, Dekla Selvam, a fisherwoman, after a gap of 14 years. In 1996, Dekla bid them farewell after visiting them in an orphanage in Chennai, promising a weeping Melissa a pair of anklets on her next visit the following week. (more…)
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‘Stolen’ kids traced to Dutch orphanage

8/28/2008 6:47:40 PM

The case of stolen children sold to foster parents abroad by a child adoption agency Malaysian Social Services is getting murkier. The parents of two children allegedly ‘sold’ to foster parents in Holland have revealed to TIMES NOW that they had received a letter after 12 years from their children that were abandoned at an orphanage in Netherlands. (more…)

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