16 February 2006
State Department Issues Final Rules on Intercountry Adoption
Regulations to implement Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoptions
The United States came a step closer to implementing the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoptions when it issued final rules February 15 relating to accreditation of adoption agencies.
The Hague Convention -- formally known as the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption -- sets minimum international standards and procedures for adoptions that occur between implementing countries to ensure greater protection from exploitation of children, birth parents and adoptive parents.
This multinational treaty was approved by 66 nations on May 29, 1993, at The Hague. The United States signed it on March 31, 1994.
The State Department’s rules outline standards and procedures for accrediting nonprofit agencies and approving for-profit U.S. adoption service providers who seek to provide international adoption services in cases subject to the Hague Convention.
These rules, published in the Federal Register on February 15, take effect March 17. This action is a necessary step toward bringing the convention into force for the United States.
The Hague Convention aims to prevent abuses such as the abduction, sale or trafficking of children and to ensure proper consent to the adoption, as well as allowing for the child’s transfer to the receiving country and establishing the adopted child’s status in the receiving country....
http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2006/February/20060216142905mvyelwarc0.1766016.html
Adoptee trapped by conflicting laws
2/17/2006
10:33:00 PM -0500
Adoptee trapped by conflicting laws
SHELBY, Mich., Feb. 17 (UPI) --
"An all-American girl" could be deported to Italy, a country she left as a baby, because her parents were unable to adopt her legally until she was 18.
Maria Messina, who has lived in Michigan's Macomb County since she was 28 days old, was caught between conflicting federal and state laws, the Detroit News reported. Her birth mother, who surrendered her when she was born and agreed to let her adoptive parents take her to the United States, objected three years later to the adoption....
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10:33:00 PM -0500
Adoptee trapped by conflicting laws
SHELBY, Mich., Feb. 17 (UPI) --
"An all-American girl" could be deported to Italy, a country she left as a baby, because her parents were unable to adopt her legally until she was 18.
Maria Messina, who has lived in Michigan's Macomb County since she was 28 days old, was caught between conflicting federal and state laws, the Detroit News reported. Her birth mother, who surrendered her when she was born and agreed to let her adoptive parents take her to the United States, objected three years later to the adoption....
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Couple charged with trafficking babies
Friday, February 17, 2006 ·
Last updated 9:47 p.m. PT
Couple charged with trafficking babies
By RICK VECCHIO
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LIMA, Peru
A German man and his Peruvian wife have been charged with trafficking Peruvian babies to adoptive parents in Europe through an Internet site, police said Friday.
Investigators believe the couple obtained the babies from poor women whowere willing to give up their children for money.
Arndt Hubert Kupper, 36, and Eva Noruzka la Torre, 22, were arrestedWednesday. They allegedly offered to sell the infants for $16,870 each....
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Last updated 9:47 p.m. PT
Couple charged with trafficking babies
By RICK VECCHIO
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LIMA, Peru
A German man and his Peruvian wife have been charged with trafficking Peruvian babies to adoptive parents in Europe through an Internet site, police said Friday.
Investigators believe the couple obtained the babies from poor women whowere willing to give up their children for money.
Arndt Hubert Kupper, 36, and Eva Noruzka la Torre, 22, were arrestedWednesday. They allegedly offered to sell the infants for $16,870 each....
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Teen's murder casts light on baby trafficking in Peru
Teen's murder casts light on baby trafficking in Peru
By RICK VECCHIO
The Associated Press
LIMA, Peru — When the body of Claudina Herrera was discovered nearly five months ago by the side of a highway, curled in the fetal position in a cardboard box, the cause of death was obvious: The pregnant 18-year-old's belly was sliced wide open, and her baby was gone.
Within days, her premature girl was located in intensive care at a public hospital, and the woman who had shown up with the baby — covered in blood and saying she had given birth in a taxi — was arrested with four others.
Herrera's slaying to steal her unborn child has shocked Peru and served as an ugly reminder of the early 1990s, when widespread allegations of corrupt adoption procedures led to a crackdown.
It also suggests that an illegal industry is still booming: Dr. Luis Bromley, chief of forensic investigations at the Attorney General's office, said the alleged perpetrators belong to one of at least a dozen rings trafficking in babies in Peru....
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By RICK VECCHIO
The Associated Press
LIMA, Peru — When the body of Claudina Herrera was discovered nearly five months ago by the side of a highway, curled in the fetal position in a cardboard box, the cause of death was obvious: The pregnant 18-year-old's belly was sliced wide open, and her baby was gone.
Within days, her premature girl was located in intensive care at a public hospital, and the woman who had shown up with the baby — covered in blood and saying she had given birth in a taxi — was arrested with four others.
Herrera's slaying to steal her unborn child has shocked Peru and served as an ugly reminder of the early 1990s, when widespread allegations of corrupt adoption procedures led to a crackdown.
It also suggests that an illegal industry is still booming: Dr. Luis Bromley, chief of forensic investigations at the Attorney General's office, said the alleged perpetrators belong to one of at least a dozen rings trafficking in babies in Peru....
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Woman adoptee, in U.S. since age 1, fights for citizenship
Woman adoptee, in U.S. since age 1 month, fights for citizenship
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich.
A 22-year-old woman who has lived in Michigan since she was 28 days old is fighting immigration officials for the right to remain in this country. Maria Messina grew up in Macomb County's Shelby Township, north of Detroit, and now attends Macomb Community College. Her adoptive parents brought her from Palermo, Sicily, as a baby, but a legal dispute with her birth mother delayed her adoption until she was 18....
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SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich.
A 22-year-old woman who has lived in Michigan since she was 28 days old is fighting immigration officials for the right to remain in this country. Maria Messina grew up in Macomb County's Shelby Township, north of Detroit, and now attends Macomb Community College. Her adoptive parents brought her from Palermo, Sicily, as a baby, but a legal dispute with her birth mother delayed her adoption until she was 18....
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Korean says he is skier's dad
Korean says he is skier's dad
SEOUL (Reuters)
A South Korean man says he is the biological father of American Toby Dawson, who took bronze in the men's freestyle skiing moguls at the Turin Winter Olympics, South Korean media reported onMonday.
Kim Jae-su, 52, said Dawson bears a strong resemblance to his son, Bong-suk, who went missing in 1981 in a busy market street in the South Korean port city of Pusan, Yonhap News said.
"(Dawson) just looks like him," Kim told local broadcaster YTN. "I could tell right away when I saw his pictures."South Korea-born Dawson shot to prominence after winning his medal lastweek and almost all papers carried stories that the adopted U.S. skierwas searching for his biological parents....
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SEOUL (Reuters)
A South Korean man says he is the biological father of American Toby Dawson, who took bronze in the men's freestyle skiing moguls at the Turin Winter Olympics, South Korean media reported onMonday.
Kim Jae-su, 52, said Dawson bears a strong resemblance to his son, Bong-suk, who went missing in 1981 in a busy market street in the South Korean port city of Pusan, Yonhap News said.
"(Dawson) just looks like him," Kim told local broadcaster YTN. "I could tell right away when I saw his pictures."South Korea-born Dawson shot to prominence after winning his medal lastweek and almost all papers carried stories that the adopted U.S. skierwas searching for his biological parents....
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China sentences orphanage director, nine others to prison for baby-trafficking
China sentences orphanage director, nine others to prison for baby-trafficking
Updated: 2006-02-25
15:34
BEIJING (AP)
A Chinese orphanage director and nine other people have been sentenced to prison for buying and selling scores of infants who were adopted by foreign parents, the government announced Saturday.
Another 22 officials were fired in the case in the southern city of Hengyang in Hunan province, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Police said the traffickers bought babies that had been abducted from their families and sold them to welfare homes in Hengyang for 3,200 to 4,300 yuan (US$400-US$540; euro320-euro430) each, the report said.
"The social welfare homes then had the infants adopted by foreigners who made donations," the report said....
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Saturday, February 25, 2006 ·
Last updated 3:18 a.m. PT
10 sent to prison for baby-trafficking
By JOE MCDONALD ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1104AP_China_Baby_Trafficking.html
Updated: 2006-02-25
15:34
BEIJING (AP)
A Chinese orphanage director and nine other people have been sentenced to prison for buying and selling scores of infants who were adopted by foreign parents, the government announced Saturday.
Another 22 officials were fired in the case in the southern city of Hengyang in Hunan province, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Police said the traffickers bought babies that had been abducted from their families and sold them to welfare homes in Hengyang for 3,200 to 4,300 yuan (US$400-US$540; euro320-euro430) each, the report said.
"The social welfare homes then had the infants adopted by foreigners who made donations," the report said....
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Saturday, February 25, 2006 ·
Last updated 3:18 a.m. PT
10 sent to prison for baby-trafficking
By JOE MCDONALD ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1104AP_China_Baby_Trafficking.html
Ahern welcomes court ruling on Tristan
Ahern welcomes court ruling on Tristan
23 February 2006
RTÉ News
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Adoption Ireland have welcomed today's High Court ruling regarding the future well-being of Tristan Dowse, the four-year-old boy returned to an orphanage in Indonesia by his adoptive parents. Mr Justice John McMenamin ruled that Joe Dowse from Co Wicklow and his Azerbaijani wife, Lala, had breached their constitutional duties and must support Tristan until he is 18. Minister Dermot Ahern described the ruling as realistic and said his department would maintain contact with the Indonesian authorities toensure all is well with Tristan.
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23 February 2006
RTÉ News
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Adoption Ireland have welcomed today's High Court ruling regarding the future well-being of Tristan Dowse, the four-year-old boy returned to an orphanage in Indonesia by his adoptive parents. Mr Justice John McMenamin ruled that Joe Dowse from Co Wicklow and his Azerbaijani wife, Lala, had breached their constitutional duties and must support Tristan until he is 18. Minister Dermot Ahern described the ruling as realistic and said his department would maintain contact with the Indonesian authorities toensure all is well with Tristan.
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Couple told to support boy they adopted...
Fri 02 Feb 2006
Couple told to support boy they adopted in Indonesia
The Irish-Azerbaijani couple who adopted a two-month-old Indonesian boy in 2001, and two years later handed him over to an orphanage, have been ordered by the High Court in Dublin to support him until he reaches 18. Carol Coulter, Legal Affairs Correspondent, reports.The case of Tristan Dowse caused major public concern after it emerged that he had been left in an orphanage in Indonesia when his adoptive parents decided the adoption was not working out in 2003. He was a few weeks short of his second birthday at the time....
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2006/0224/1140626815889.html
Couple told to support boy they adopted in Indonesia
The Irish-Azerbaijani couple who adopted a two-month-old Indonesian boy in 2001, and two years later handed him over to an orphanage, have been ordered by the High Court in Dublin to support him until he reaches 18. Carol Coulter, Legal Affairs Correspondent, reports.The case of Tristan Dowse caused major public concern after it emerged that he had been left in an orphanage in Indonesia when his adoptive parents decided the adoption was not working out in 2003. He was a few weeks short of his second birthday at the time....
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2006/0224/1140626815889.html
Adoption attitudes, law changing
Sun May 13, 2007 3:50 pm (PST)
Adoption attitudes, law changing
By Brian Breuhaus, Deputy Editor
New laws that took effect this year designed to encourage Koreans to adopt more children while discouraging foreigners from doing so are having the desired effect, leaders of an adoption civic group said yesterday.
But there are still thousands of children languishing in orphanages because either there aren't enough families willing to take them or they cannot be adopted because their parents didn't sign the proper papers, the group said."
This has been a burden in my heart for 10 years. How can I help those children?" said Stephen Morrison, an ethnic Korean who was adopted by an American family. Under the new laws, a Korean can adopt a child for free. Foreigners must pay between 15 and 20 million won. Also, the government will give Koreans a stipend of 100,000 won per child per month for each child adopted, and 550,000 won for each special needs child. Singles are also now allowed to adopt a child....
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Adoption attitudes, law changing
By Brian Breuhaus, Deputy Editor
New laws that took effect this year designed to encourage Koreans to adopt more children while discouraging foreigners from doing so are having the desired effect, leaders of an adoption civic group said yesterday.
But there are still thousands of children languishing in orphanages because either there aren't enough families willing to take them or they cannot be adopted because their parents didn't sign the proper papers, the group said."
This has been a burden in my heart for 10 years. How can I help those children?" said Stephen Morrison, an ethnic Korean who was adopted by an American family. Under the new laws, a Korean can adopt a child for free. Foreigners must pay between 15 and 20 million won. Also, the government will give Koreans a stipend of 100,000 won per child per month for each child adopted, and 550,000 won for each special needs child. Singles are also now allowed to adopt a child....
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Boy Found in Japan Unwanted Drop Box
Boy Found in Japan Unwanted Drop Box
Posted on: Tuesday, 15 May 2007,
00:00 CDT
TOKYO - A toddler was found in an anonymous drop box for unwanted children set up by a Catholic-run hospital in southern Japan, media reports said Tuesday.
The boy, believed to be 3 or 4-year-old, was found Thursday - the day the Jikei Hospital opened the baby drop-off in the southern city of Kumamoto to discourage abortions and the abandonment of children in unsafe public places.
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Posted on: Tuesday, 15 May 2007,
00:00 CDT
TOKYO - A toddler was found in an anonymous drop box for unwanted children set up by a Catholic-run hospital in southern Japan, media reports said Tuesday.
The boy, believed to be 3 or 4-year-old, was found Thursday - the day the Jikei Hospital opened the baby drop-off in the southern city of Kumamoto to discourage abortions and the abandonment of children in unsafe public places.
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Boy Placed in Japan's Only Baby Hatch
Boy Placed in Japan's Only Baby Hatch
Tuesday, 15 May 2007,
18:00 CDT
Kumamoto, May 15 (Jiji Press)--A boy believed to be three or four years old was placed in Japan's only baby hatch on its first day in use Thursday, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
The boy is the first who has been left in the anonymous drop-off point for unwanted babies, installed at Jikei Hospital in this southwestern Japan city on May 1. The boy is believed to be in good health, the sources said....
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Tuesday, 15 May 2007,
18:00 CDT
Kumamoto, May 15 (Jiji Press)--A boy believed to be three or four years old was placed in Japan's only baby hatch on its first day in use Thursday, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
The boy is the first who has been left in the anonymous drop-off point for unwanted babies, installed at Jikei Hospital in this southwestern Japan city on May 1. The boy is believed to be in good health, the sources said....
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Japan's 'baby hatch' sets off flood of advice seekers
Japan's 'baby hatch' sets off flood of advice seekers
Sep 6 12:54 PM
US/Eastern
Hundreds of people have called an advice hotline since a Japanese hospital opened a controversial "baby hatch," where seven children have been left anonymously, officials and reports said Thursday.
The Roman Catholic hospital set up the hatch in May in a bid to prevent abortions and unwanted children. It looks like a mailbox with pictures of storks and is modelled on a similar idea in Germany.
Conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed outrage at the baby drop-off, saying it encourages irresponsibility, but he could find no legal grounds on which stop it being installed.
The hospital has declined to say how many children it has received, but reports said seven have been deposited....
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Sep 6 12:54 PM
US/Eastern
Hundreds of people have called an advice hotline since a Japanese hospital opened a controversial "baby hatch," where seven children have been left anonymously, officials and reports said Thursday.
The Roman Catholic hospital set up the hatch in May in a bid to prevent abortions and unwanted children. It looks like a mailbox with pictures of storks and is modelled on a similar idea in Germany.
Conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed outrage at the baby drop-off, saying it encourages irresponsibility, but he could find no legal grounds on which stop it being installed.
The hospital has declined to say how many children it has received, but reports said seven have been deposited....
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"Baby hatch" highlights Japan fears over adoption
"Baby hatch" highlights Japan fears over adoption
Sun Jul 8, 2007 11:09pm EDT
By Isabel Reynolds
TOKYO (Reuters) - When a newborn baby girl was left in Japan's controversial "baby hatch" last week, the child's life may have been saved, but her chances of finding new parents were slim due to a cultural aversion to adoption in Japan.
The baby is one of four tots -- one of them three-years-old -- so far left at the "stork's cradle" baby hatch at the Catholic-run Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto, southern Japan.
A small door in the outside wall of the hospital opens to reveal a tiny bed inside, allowing parents to leave their child safely and anonymously. Once they do, an alarm goes off to alert hospital staff to the new arrival.
Similar facilities exist in Germany, where babies are offered for adoption after an eight week period during which birth parents can change their minds....
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUST915320070709?feedType=RSS&rpc=22&sp=true
Sun Jul 8, 2007 11:09pm EDT
By Isabel Reynolds
TOKYO (Reuters) - When a newborn baby girl was left in Japan's controversial "baby hatch" last week, the child's life may have been saved, but her chances of finding new parents were slim due to a cultural aversion to adoption in Japan.
The baby is one of four tots -- one of them three-years-old -- so far left at the "stork's cradle" baby hatch at the Catholic-run Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto, southern Japan.
A small door in the outside wall of the hospital opens to reveal a tiny bed inside, allowing parents to leave their child safely and anonymously. Once they do, an alarm goes off to alert hospital staff to the new arrival.
Similar facilities exist in Germany, where babies are offered for adoption after an eight week period during which birth parents can change their minds....
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUST915320070709?feedType=RSS&rpc=22&sp=true
Japan's first 'baby hatch' opens to controversy
Japan's first 'baby hatch' opens to controversy
May 10 03:42 AM
US/Eastern
Japan's first "baby hatch", where parents can drop off unwanted infants anonymously, opened Thursday despite opposition from the conservative national government. The baby hatch, modelled on a project in Germany, went into operation at a Roman Catholic hospital in the city of Kumamoto, some 900 kilometres (560 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has urged Japan to return to "family values," opposed the idea but found no legal grounds to stop it.
"A mother must not leave her child or abandon him or her anonymously, " Abe told reporters.
"I want mothers to seek help first if they have problems," said Abe, who is childless after unsuccessful attempts with his wife Akie....
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May 10 03:42 AM
US/Eastern
Japan's first "baby hatch", where parents can drop off unwanted infants anonymously, opened Thursday despite opposition from the conservative national government. The baby hatch, modelled on a project in Germany, went into operation at a Roman Catholic hospital in the city of Kumamoto, some 900 kilometres (560 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has urged Japan to return to "family values," opposed the idea but found no legal grounds to stop it.
"A mother must not leave her child or abandon him or her anonymously, " Abe told reporters.
"I want mothers to seek help first if they have problems," said Abe, who is childless after unsuccessful attempts with his wife Akie....
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