Manager held in child kidnap racket

Source: hinduonnet.com
Date: 2005-05-29

CHENNAI: The Central Crime Branch of the city police on Saturday arrested Somasundaram (48), Manager, Malaysian Social Services, near his residence in Koyambedu. The arrest was made by a team headed by Augustine Daniels, Assistant Commissioner of Police.

Mr. Somasundaram was charged with signing fake documents pertaining to about 40 children and for his involvement in the kidnap of a child from a Government Hospital in Salem in 1999. (more…)

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Warning on suspect Indian adoption agency ignored

Source: The Australian 
Michael McKenna | October 03, 2008

THE Goss government ignored a warning about an Indian adoption agency five years before it sent a young girl to an unwitting Queensland couple after she had allegedly been stolen away from her parents.

The Bligh Government yesterday released a 1995 letter to Queensland’s then Department of Family Services which raised serious allegations against the agency, now suspected of involvement in child trafficking. (more…)

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Birth parents want to see ‘trafficked’ child

Source: The Australian 
By Sean Parnell | September 03, 2008
  • Girl allegedly stolen by child traffickers
  • Adopted by Queensland couple
  • Birth parents now want to see her

THE Indian birth parents of a nine-year-old girl allegedly stolen by child-traffickers before being adopted by an unwitting Queensland couple have now asked to see her. (more…)

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Stolen child ‘OK to stay in Queensland’

Scott Carney, August 30, 2008

November 11th, 1998, was like any other day in Chennai: hot and humid. Fatima, a young housewife with three children left her house for a grocery run across the street while two of her children, Zabeen, 2, and Sadaam Hussein, 4, played in an alley.

A three-wheel auto rickshaw pulled up at the alley entrance and the children peeped inside. A woman reached down and grabbed Zabeen and Sadaam and dragged them into the back of the rickshaw. The driver, a man, sped away, but Sadaam managed to break free, running home to an empty house and cowering under a small wooden bed. He was so shaken he was unable to tell his mother immediately that his sister had been stolen. (more…)

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Tamil Nadu is home to adoption rackets and child-labour gangs

Source: www.indianexpress.com

CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 15 2007 : • When E Kathirvel and Nagarani, pavement- dwellers in Pulianthope, woke up on an October morning in 1999, they found their 18 month-old son Sateesh missing. On May 3, 2005, police located the boy. But he had been legally adopted by the Bisessars, a Dutch couple, who had named him Anbu Rohit Bisessar and lived in Almere in the Netherlands. Sateesh spoke only Dutch. The police showed Nagarani a picture of the boy, pinned to a register of a Chennai-based adoption agency, Malaysian Social Service, which was being investigated. “We want him back,” said Nagarani. The police have sought the Centre’s help to bring back Nagarani’s child, now 9. (more…)

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