Adoptive Parents Julia and Barry Rollings

Countries: India, Australia
Adoption Agency: Madras Social Service Guild Orphanage (MASOS)

In mid-1997 the Indian adoption agency MASOS told the Rollings that a three-year-old boy and his two-year-old sister were put up for adoption five months earlier, in October 1996, as their ‘terminally ill parents’ were unable to take care of them.  Eight years later the couple was stunned to read an internet article saying a member of the staff of Madras Social Service Guild Orphanage had been arrested on charges of kidnapping. “Early 2006 they heard that the director of the children’s orphanage of MASOS had been arrested in an unrelated case.

The Rollings have reconnected their adopted children with their mother.

ACT helped retrace the mother and assisted the Rollings in 2008  in filing a Writ Petition in the Indian Court.

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‘My children were sold for 50 dollars’

Source: www.timesnow.tv 
19 Mar 2010, 1232 

Over the last few days TIMES NOW has been bringing you a series of investigative reports on the rampant ‘sale’ of poor Indian children to foreign couples. For the Rollings of Australia, it was a shocker when they discovered eight years after they adopted 2 Indian children that they had been ‘sold’ by their father without their biological mother’s consent. What followed was a fight for justice in which the courageous adoptive parents wrote to Indian authorities to take action against those guilty, and chose to reunite their Indian children with their birth mother and her family. (more…)

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Stolen and Sold

Source:  www.abc.net.au
Broadcast: 24/02/2009
Reporter: Sally Sara

What would you do if you discovered your adopted children were stolen and trafficked, and not willingly given up by their parents, as you’d believed?

South Asia correspondent Sally Sara investigates the insidious trade of children in India, and joins an Australian family in their moving search for the truth. (more…)

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Silence on case of stolen Indian children

Rory Callinan From: The Australian November 06, 2009 12:48AM
INDIAN authorities have failed to launch any investigation into how two stolen children were adopted in Australia despite being given documentary evidence last year proving the siblings were trafficked.
Australian couple Julia and Barry Rollings adopted two toddlers, aged 1 and 3, in India in 1998 after being assured they had been relinquished by parents who lived on the streets of Chennai and were allegedly too sick to care for them. (more…)
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A-G’s dept scours India on adoption kidnap trail

Source: abc.net.au
Date:2009-02-24
Dozens of children were kidnapped from the streets, their identities changed and put up for adoption. (File photo) (REUTERS: Parth Sanyal )
The Federal Government says it has identified 12 children from India who may have been kidnapped and sold to orphanages before being adopted by unsuspecting Australian families.
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