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11 APRIL, 16:20

(ANSAmed) – MADRID, APRIL 11 – Susana Ramos held the Moroccan baby she was planning to adopt when he was only six weeks old.

”When I saw him, I just knew I would never be separated from him,” she said. But a year has since gone by, Susana has traveled to the North African country over 25 times, and the infant is still in a Rabat orphanage after Morocco suspended international adoptions in 2012. ”It changed the rules of the game,” said the woman, who was deemed fit to be a single mother and who is suffering the anguish of being far from her little one – as are the other fifty some Spanish families (200 foreign ones overall) who had their adoption processes halted by Moroccan authorities. Until a year ago foreign families could adopt in the country through an easier process than those in other countries. (more…)

To ensure Moroccan kids get traditional education at home

08 October, 19:30

(ANSAmed) – TUNIS, OCTOBER 8 – Moroccan Justice Minister Mustafa Ramid has issued a moratorium on international adoptions of Moroccan children, Afriquinfos.com reported on Monday.

The minister based his decision on concerns that children adopted abroad won’t be brought up to respect culture, tradition and religion, the news site said.

The moratorium affects 44 Spanish families who are currently in the process of adopting children from the Laila Meryam orphanage in Rabat. These families, who have already formed ties with the children whom they visit regularly in the orphanage, have appealed to the Moroccan justice ministry and to the Spanish foreign ministry to let their adoptions to go through.

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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…)

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…)

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…)