TLCH adoptions break CARA rule

February 16, 2012 DC Hyderabad a a a ShareAdd To My Pages email print
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In what seems to amount to a violation of the rules, orphan girls from Teresa’s Tender Loving Care Home (TLCH), Erragadda, are being sent for cross-country adoption though the home does not have a valid licence to operate. A court case is also pending against the institution, which has violated rules of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).

CARA says that as per court orders, TLCH is not allowed to send children for cross-country adoption. It has not even renewed its licence. Other children’s NGOs allege that orphans in some institutions are being trafficked in the name of inter-country adoption. About a decade ago, TLCH lost its case in the family court, the AP High Court and the Supreme Court regarding falsification and fabrication of documents pertaining to adoption. Its licence was revoked in 2001. (more…)

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Grandmother’s investigation plea against Preet Mandir dismissed

Date: 2012-01-05

Asseem Shaikh TNN

Pune: A special court’s refusal on Tuesday to issue direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to further probe into the inter-country adoption racket, involving the city-based Preet Mandir, has left a 70-year-old woman distressed in her fight against the adoption centre to get back her two granddaughters.

Kisabai Tulsiram Lokhande, a resident of Khandala in Satara district, had handed over her granddaughters — Komal and Ashwini — to an observation home at Karad for taking care and providing education, following the death of their parents in 2004-05. However, the Satara child welfare committee without taking Lokhande’s consent shifted the girls to Preet Mandir for rehabilitation. (more…)

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Spain’s Stolen Baby Scandal

Date:  2011-10-04

Antonio Barroso cried himself to sleep every night until he was 12, haunted, he says, by a taunt from other children: “Your mother isn’t your real mother.”

He asked his mother repeatedly, and even secretly checked his official birth certificate. But she insisted, and the documents confirmed, he was her son.

It wasn’t until 2008, when he was 38, that he discovered the lie: He was stolen from his biological parents and sold into adoption.

“My old friend Juan Luis called me one day and told me our parents bought us from a nun in Zaragoza.” Barroso, 42, told GlobalPost, recalling the chain of events that changed his life. “It was his father’s deathbed confession.” (more…)

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Die verschwundenen Kinder von El Salvador

Source:  http://derstandard.at 
29. August 2011 23:29

Viele Bürgerkriegsopfer wurden von Militärs für Adoptionen im Ausland entführt
San Salvador – Das verknitterte und vergilbte Schwarz-Weiß-Foto hütet Raúl wie einen Schatz. Es ist das Einzige, was er von seiner Mutter noch hat. Als Raúl vier Jahre alt war, brachte seine Mutter ihn und den um ein Jahr jüngeren Jorge in einem kirchlichen Kinderheim in Sicherheit vor den Wirren des salvadorianischen Bürgerkriegs. Mit sieben erfuhr Raúl, dass seine Mutter tot war.

Sie war in den kirchlichen Basisgemeinden aktiv, die vom Militär als Zuarbeiter der Guerilla verdächtigt wurden. 1992 endete der Bürgerkrieg in dem mittelamerikanischen Land. Raúl war 15, er und sein Bruder blieben Kriegswaisen. Rund 75.000 Menschen starben im Bürgerkrieg, mehr als 8000 gelten immer noch als verschwunden, darunter 871 Kinder. (more…)

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Spain’s baby market

4 August 2011
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Courts shine light on Spain’s child-trade shame

Published Date: 10 July 2011

By Raphael Minder
in Seville
AT THE BEHEST of grieving parents, Spanish judges are investigating hundreds of complaints that infants were abducted and sold for adoption over a 40-year period.

What may have begun as Fascist retribution on leftist families during the dictatorship of General Franco appears to have mutated into a trafficking business in which doctors, nurses and even nuns colluded with criminal networks. (more…)

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Adoption is back in business at home

Sunday, July 10, 2011, 13:11

Rashi Aditi Ghosh/ Zee Research Group

Adoption is back in business in India. The adoption levels within the country more than doubled in the last four years. In contrast, adoption of kids born in India abroad has registered a sharp fall. But nobody is losing sleep over that. (more…)

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Spain probes 849 cases of alleged baby trafficking

By HAROLD HECKLE
Associated Press
Published: Friday, Jun. 17, 2011 – 12:40 pm
MADRID — Spanish prosecutors are investigating 849 cases of newborn children stolen from their mothers and sold to other families for profit, the country’s attorney general said Friday.

Candido Conde-Pumpido said 162 cases had already been referred for trial and only 38 have been dropped for a lack of evidence.

It is well documented that babies were taken from women who had supported the defeated Republican side after Spain’s 1936-39 civil war. However, some of the baby trafficking cases are as recent as the mid-1990s. (more…)

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Babies just another commodity

Source: http://m.nzherald.co.nz
18 June, 2011
In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is US$6000 ($7449), about 600 children are missing.

They were taken by agents who came to the villages promising parents they would educate the children and give them a better life in the capital, sometimes for a steep fee. The children never returned.

Between 2001 and 2007, hundreds of Nepali children with living parents were falsely listed as orphans and adopted by high-paying Western couples a world away. (more…)

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Profit, not care: The ugly side of overseas adoptions

Date: 2011-06-05

Lax regulation and an endless demand by childless couples in the West has created an often exploitative market in babies born in the developing world

By Laurie Penny
Sunday, 5 June 2011

In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is $5,000 (£3,000), some 600 children are missing. They were taken by agents who came to the villages promising that they would educate the children and give them a better life in the capital, sometimes for a steep fee. The children never returned. (more…)

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