Wednesday, July 5, 2006. 11:34am (AEST)
An internal review has found the New South Wales Government spends more on overseas adoptions than on local child protection cases.
The Minister for Community Services, Reba Meagher, has called on the Commonwealth to play a greater role in overseas adoptions to allow state agencies to concentrate on foster placements for local children.
"We should be directing our child protection resources to those kids in New South Wales that need our help," Ms Meagher said....
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'Evil' adoption scandal
By Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer
Saturday July 08 2006
A WOMAN nicknamed 'Dr Evil' who arranged the adoption of 150 Vietnamese babies to Ireland has admitted the paperwork was forged by corrupt officials. In a series of secretly recorded meetings, My Linh Soland told an Irish Independent reporter how the children's histories were invented. And she told how officials at the highest level were paid to procure paperwork or to turn a blind eye about whether the adoptions were legal or ethical.
A WOMAN nicknamed 'Dr Evil' who arranged the adoption of 150 Vietnamese babies to Ireland has admitted the paperwork was forged by corrupt officials.
In a series of secretly recorded meetings, My Linh Soland told an Irish Independent reporter how the children's histories were invented....
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Saturday July 08 2006
A WOMAN nicknamed 'Dr Evil' who arranged the adoption of 150 Vietnamese babies to Ireland has admitted the paperwork was forged by corrupt officials. In a series of secretly recorded meetings, My Linh Soland told an Irish Independent reporter how the children's histories were invented. And she told how officials at the highest level were paid to procure paperwork or to turn a blind eye about whether the adoptions were legal or ethical.
A WOMAN nicknamed 'Dr Evil' who arranged the adoption of 150 Vietnamese babies to Ireland has admitted the paperwork was forged by corrupt officials.
In a series of secretly recorded meetings, My Linh Soland told an Irish Independent reporter how the children's histories were invented....
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DNA Crime Lab Reunites Families
Richmond, California
07 July 2006
In an unprecedented international collaboration, California crime scientists are analyzing DNA from hundreds of families in El Salvador who are searching for their children, lost during the civil war that tormented that country for more than a decade. The violence took 75,000 lives and, in the chaos, thousands of children were put in orphanages and adoption centers. Many were adopted by families in the United States and Europe. The war ended in 1992, but its aftermath is now playing out in a California laboratory....
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07 July 2006
In an unprecedented international collaboration, California crime scientists are analyzing DNA from hundreds of families in El Salvador who are searching for their children, lost during the civil war that tormented that country for more than a decade. The violence took 75,000 lives and, in the chaos, thousands of children were put in orphanages and adoption centers. Many were adopted by families in the United States and Europe. The war ended in 1992, but its aftermath is now playing out in a California laboratory....
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Mixed-race adoptions pose some obstacles for children
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Jeff Gammage
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
Phil Bertelsen grew up as the biracial, adopted son of white parents. He always felt their profound and enveloping love.
The problem began, he said, when he stepped outside his front door.
At age 13, he was told by the white classmate he considered his girlfriend: "Mother doesn?t want me going out with n------."
"I didn?t know at the time what that was," Bertelsen said, "let alone that it might be me."
When he tried to connect with blacks, "I was tormented and ridiculed," he said. "I certainly wasn?t aware there was a style of behavior or dress or a code of conduct associated with being black."
Bertelsen, a documentary filmmaker who was raised in Highland Park, N.J., defines himself through his work, including the autobiographical Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America....
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Jeff Gammage
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
Phil Bertelsen grew up as the biracial, adopted son of white parents. He always felt their profound and enveloping love.
The problem began, he said, when he stepped outside his front door.
At age 13, he was told by the white classmate he considered his girlfriend: "Mother doesn?t want me going out with n------."
"I didn?t know at the time what that was," Bertelsen said, "let alone that it might be me."
When he tried to connect with blacks, "I was tormented and ridiculed," he said. "I certainly wasn?t aware there was a style of behavior or dress or a code of conduct associated with being black."
Bertelsen, a documentary filmmaker who was raised in Highland Park, N.J., defines himself through his work, including the autobiographical Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America....
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Man finds joy in adopting child at age 71
BY MAUREEN SIMPSON, The Island Packet
Published Tuesday, May 30, 2006
...Eight years ago, Clarence moved to Hilton Head Island from New Jersey
with the intention of retiring from the ministry. The former dentist
said he had felt God calling him out of that profession to become a
pastor several years before that. He spent three years studying
part-time at a Bible college and four years in seminary before leading a
church in New Jersey.
But in 1998, he made the move to South Carolina, where he met Deborah,
47, at a Gullah celebration. A month later, the two met again at a
business meeting, and Clarence asked her out to lunch. The rest, he
says, is history.
Soon, he found himself pastoring a church on Daufuskie Island. In 2000,
the couple married -- not quite the retirement he had imagined, but a
blessing nonetheless, he says....
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Published Tuesday, May 30, 2006
...Eight years ago, Clarence moved to Hilton Head Island from New Jersey
with the intention of retiring from the ministry. The former dentist
said he had felt God calling him out of that profession to become a
pastor several years before that. He spent three years studying
part-time at a Bible college and four years in seminary before leading a
church in New Jersey.
But in 1998, he made the move to South Carolina, where he met Deborah,
47, at a Gullah celebration. A month later, the two met again at a
business meeting, and Clarence asked her out to lunch. The rest, he
says, is history.
Soon, he found himself pastoring a church on Daufuskie Island. In 2000,
the couple married -- not quite the retirement he had imagined, but a
blessing nonetheless, he says....
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Hawaii Police Searching for Two Girls
Updated: May 30, 2006 01:28 PM PDT
(KHNL) -- Hawaii police are looking for two children who were not returned to their adoptive parents following a visit with the children's birth mother.
5-year-old Chelsea Gouveia and 11-year-old Celeste Gouveia were left with 30-year-old Diana Tamura Saturday morning....
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(KHNL) -- Hawaii police are looking for two children who were not returned to their adoptive parents following a visit with the children's birth mother.
5-year-old Chelsea Gouveia and 11-year-old Celeste Gouveia were left with 30-year-old Diana Tamura Saturday morning....
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Adoptive mother's case under review
Adoptive mother's case under review
Thursday, June 1, 2006
WOODBURY
A hearing at which Heather Lindorff could have her bail revoked has been
continued to give the judge and defense attorney more time to review the
case.
Lindorff will remain free pending the outcome of the hearing, which is
scheduled for Tuesday.
Lindorff continued to abuse four of her adopted Russian children even
though she lost custody of them following a 2003 conviction for her role
in the death of another one of her children, prosecutors alleged last
week....
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Thursday, June 1, 2006
WOODBURY
A hearing at which Heather Lindorff could have her bail revoked has been
continued to give the judge and defense attorney more time to review the
case.
Lindorff will remain free pending the outcome of the hearing, which is
scheduled for Tuesday.
Lindorff continued to abuse four of her adopted Russian children even
though she lost custody of them following a 2003 conviction for her role
in the death of another one of her children, prosecutors alleged last
week....
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Abuse, deaths, prompt Russian to adopt new rules
BY RUTHANN ROBINSON
Changes to the law will be too late to help little Luke Evans of Lowell.
Prosecutors say the 16-month-old Russian adoptee was shaken to death by his adoptive mother in November 2001.
Natalie Fabian Evans was charged with murder 13 months later but has yet to face a jury. Her trial is scheduled to begin June 19.
In response to news reports that more than 10 Russian children adopted by American parents have died by neglect or violence since 1991, Russian officials passed an amendment in May prohibiting foreign, independent adoptions through unlicensed agencies....
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Changes to the law will be too late to help little Luke Evans of Lowell.
Prosecutors say the 16-month-old Russian adoptee was shaken to death by his adoptive mother in November 2001.
Natalie Fabian Evans was charged with murder 13 months later but has yet to face a jury. Her trial is scheduled to begin June 19.
In response to news reports that more than 10 Russian children adopted by American parents have died by neglect or violence since 1991, Russian officials passed an amendment in May prohibiting foreign, independent adoptions through unlicensed agencies....
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Brings together growing adult adoptee community
Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 5, 2006 -- The first meeting of the International Adoptee Congress (IAC), an organization made up of 75 internationally adopted persons from various ethnic and geographic backgrounds, will meet in Washington, DC on November 2-5, 2006.
The goals of this historic meeting will be to:
Demonstrate unity within the growing adoptee community;
Explore new and innovative ways to empower and give voice to pre-teen, teen, and adult adoptees and their families;
Consider ways in which adoptees can work with each other, as well as other members of the broad adoption community, in positioning adoptees as leaders in adoption;
Evaluate current resources (cultural, educational, adopted person organizations, therapeutic, mentorship, internet, film, literature, art, legislative) available to adoptees; discuss how adoptees can aid in improving and promoting the resources;
Launch a national adoptee agenda for all adoptees and adoptee organizations to participate in.
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The goals of this historic meeting will be to:
Demonstrate unity within the growing adoptee community;
Explore new and innovative ways to empower and give voice to pre-teen, teen, and adult adoptees and their families;
Consider ways in which adoptees can work with each other, as well as other members of the broad adoption community, in positioning adoptees as leaders in adoption;
Evaluate current resources (cultural, educational, adopted person organizations, therapeutic, mentorship, internet, film, literature, art, legislative) available to adoptees; discuss how adoptees can aid in improving and promoting the resources;
Launch a national adoptee agenda for all adoptees and adoptee organizations to participate in.
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Soldier finds her birth family in South Korea
By Erik Slavin, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, June 4, 2006
CAMP CASEY, South Korea — With two daughters, Park Hee-soon knew the pain of childbirth — but this time was different.
Her third daughter was a difficult breech birth. Park was anesthetized. When she awoke, her mother-in-law told her the little girl had not survived.
But whenever she’d watch a television show about a long-lost family reuniting, she wept. “Somewhere in my thoughts, I felt as if my daughter were alive,” Park said....
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Pacific edition, Sunday, June 4, 2006
CAMP CASEY, South Korea — With two daughters, Park Hee-soon knew the pain of childbirth — but this time was different.
Her third daughter was a difficult breech birth. Park was anesthetized. When she awoke, her mother-in-law told her the little girl had not survived.
But whenever she’d watch a television show about a long-lost family reuniting, she wept. “Somewhere in my thoughts, I felt as if my daughter were alive,” Park said....
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Woman to plead guilty in adoption fraud
Carmel - A woman accused of persuading six couples to give her nearly $100,000 after falsely telling them she would help them adopt Russian children has agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges.
Eyewitness News partners at the Indianapolis Star report Victoria Farahan could face up to 20 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine. Authorities say Farahan told the couples she worked with an international agency and could use her Russian "contacts" to help them adopt children from that country....
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Eyewitness News partners at the Indianapolis Star report Victoria Farahan could face up to 20 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine. Authorities say Farahan told the couples she worked with an international agency and could use her Russian "contacts" to help them adopt children from that country....
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Judge asks for more evidence in adoption agency fraud case
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By DAVID RYAN, Register Staff Writer
Napa County prosecutors will have to come up with more proof in their effort to refund money to the victims of a now-defunct Napa adoption agency.
Napa Superior Court Judge Raymond Guadagni said Friday he wanted more evidence from prosecutors before he would enter a default judgment against Ivan Jerdev, former president of Yunona USA, accused of bilking more than $1.1 million from more than 100 victims across the country.
Prosecutors charge Jerdev took money from would-be adoptive parents without connecting them with children they expected to welcome into their families. Jerdev's company reached many of its clients through Internet sites on which it posted the pictures of children from eastern Europe and elsewhere that Yunona claimed were available for adoption.
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By DAVID RYAN, Register Staff Writer
Napa County prosecutors will have to come up with more proof in their effort to refund money to the victims of a now-defunct Napa adoption agency.
Napa Superior Court Judge Raymond Guadagni said Friday he wanted more evidence from prosecutors before he would enter a default judgment against Ivan Jerdev, former president of Yunona USA, accused of bilking more than $1.1 million from more than 100 victims across the country.
Prosecutors charge Jerdev took money from would-be adoptive parents without connecting them with children they expected to welcome into their families. Jerdev's company reached many of its clients through Internet sites on which it posted the pictures of children from eastern Europe and elsewhere that Yunona claimed were available for adoption.
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UNITED STATES: HAITIAN ORPHAN BRINGS MESSAGE OF INSPIRATION
UNITED STATES: HAITIAN ORPHAN BRINGS MESSAGE OF INSPIRATION - Ex-slave
readies for college
published: Monday | June 12, 2006
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP):
A HAITIAN orphan who claims she was a virtual slave for a wealthy South
Florida family says she hopes her story will inspire other victims of
abuse.
Williathe Narcisse, then 12, told police in 1999 that she was beaten,
enslaved and repeatedly raped by the 20-year-old son of a Pembroke Pines
couple who had smuggled her into the United States three years earlier
to be a household servant, according to court documents.
"I can't forget what happened to me. I don't know why they tortured me.
I'm not going to dwell on it," said Narcisse, now 19, who graduated
second in her class from the Life Skills Center of Broward County....
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readies for college
published: Monday | June 12, 2006
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP):
A HAITIAN orphan who claims she was a virtual slave for a wealthy South
Florida family says she hopes her story will inspire other victims of
abuse.
Williathe Narcisse, then 12, told police in 1999 that she was beaten,
enslaved and repeatedly raped by the 20-year-old son of a Pembroke Pines
couple who had smuggled her into the United States three years earlier
to be a household servant, according to court documents.
"I can't forget what happened to me. I don't know why they tortured me.
I'm not going to dwell on it," said Narcisse, now 19, who graduated
second in her class from the Life Skills Center of Broward County....
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Romania requests data on child abused by Spanish adoptive parents
Romania requests data on child abused by Spanish adoptive parents
Alecs Iancu
The Romanian Office for Adoptions (ORA) will contact Spanish authorities
to clarify the situation of a child adopted from Romania in 2001 who
ended up in a coma in hospital after he was beaten by his adoptive
parents, the head of the office said.
State secretary Theodora Bertzi said this is not the first time the boy
needed medical assistance following mistreatment by his adoptive
parents. However, in spite of the situation, the child was not taken
into the custody of Spanish social services, which were in charge of
monitoring the adopted child.
"The second post-adoption report sent to Romanian authorities shows that
the boy was found with bruises and that he was even hospitalized,
requiring recovery treatment and his adoptive mother said at the time
that he had fallen out of his bed," Bertzi said....
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Alecs Iancu
The Romanian Office for Adoptions (ORA) will contact Spanish authorities
to clarify the situation of a child adopted from Romania in 2001 who
ended up in a coma in hospital after he was beaten by his adoptive
parents, the head of the office said.
State secretary Theodora Bertzi said this is not the first time the boy
needed medical assistance following mistreatment by his adoptive
parents. However, in spite of the situation, the child was not taken
into the custody of Spanish social services, which were in charge of
monitoring the adopted child.
"The second post-adoption report sent to Romanian authorities shows that
the boy was found with bruises and that he was even hospitalized,
requiring recovery treatment and his adoptive mother said at the time
that he had fallen out of his bed," Bertzi said....
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International adoption campaign stirs new controversy
International adoption campaign stirs new controversy
Denisa Maruntoiu
Following the publication in Monday's edition of British daily Financial
Times of a full-page advertisement entitled "Romania's concealed
childcare crisis" completed by 33 NGOs which denounced the child
protection system in Romania as ignoring the Romanian orphans and
pointed out that EU officials have no idea about the traumas the orphans
are subjected to in the Romanian institutions. The former EP's
rapporteur on Romania, Baroness Emma Nicholson, rejected all the
allegations. She pointed out that the non-governmental organizations
that have signed the document have a strong financial interest in the
resumption of the highly profitable international adoptions business.
In a letter to the editor entitled "Romania banned international
adoptions as an evil trade in children" published yesterday by Financial
Times, Nicholson said that Romania banned international adoptions in
2001 because it had turned into a trade....
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Denisa Maruntoiu
Following the publication in Monday's edition of British daily Financial
Times of a full-page advertisement entitled "Romania's concealed
childcare crisis" completed by 33 NGOs which denounced the child
protection system in Romania as ignoring the Romanian orphans and
pointed out that EU officials have no idea about the traumas the orphans
are subjected to in the Romanian institutions. The former EP's
rapporteur on Romania, Baroness Emma Nicholson, rejected all the
allegations. She pointed out that the non-governmental organizations
that have signed the document have a strong financial interest in the
resumption of the highly profitable international adoptions business.
In a letter to the editor entitled "Romania banned international
adoptions as an evil trade in children" published yesterday by Financial
Times, Nicholson said that Romania banned international adoptions in
2001 because it had turned into a trade....
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