Stolen Children
Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008
By RORY CALLINAN/CHENNAI
YEARS OF HEARTBREAK: Zabeen's birth mother Fatima at a local tea shop; her daughter was taken as she played outside
TIME has learned that Australian authorities had plenty of warning that MSS was a suspect agency and could have ended adoptions from it well before Zabeen's was processed. Five years earlier, a Western Australian family had their MSS adoption of a five-year-old girl canceled after an Indian court found the orphanage was lying when it said she had been abandoned. In reality, she'd been claimed by her uncle. Orphanage director Ravindranath told authorities the child was hallucinating when she insisted she had a family.
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German 'Superpapa' gets jail time
German 'Superpapa' gets jail time in Paraguayan adoptions case
The Associated Press
Published: December 11, 2007
ASUNCION, Paraguay: A man known as "Superpapa" for allegedly taking advantage of a quirk in German laws to adopt hundreds of children worldwide was convicted Tuesday of violating adoption laws in Paraguay. Jurgen Ernst Hass, 57, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail, said Manuel Aguirre, the judge who led the sentencing and announced the decision. The court determined that Hass violated laws that those adopting children must be no older than 50 and must show they can provide a loving home where a mother and father are present and be able to educate and raise a child.
Police detained Hass in 2006, saying he appeared to have taken steps to adopt some 30 Paraguayan children with the intent of taking them to Germany to collect a government subsidy for each under Germany's child protection laws.
Hass said he would appeal to be set free immediately for time spent in confinement. Arrested in 2006, he spent several months in jail and was then under house arrest for more than a year.
At the time of his arrest, police said that Hass once claimed he adopted more than 370 children in countries including Russia, Romania, India and Pakistan.
For the remainging article: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/11/news/Paraguay-Superpapa.php
The Associated Press
Published: December 11, 2007
ASUNCION, Paraguay: A man known as "Superpapa" for allegedly taking advantage of a quirk in German laws to adopt hundreds of children worldwide was convicted Tuesday of violating adoption laws in Paraguay. Jurgen Ernst Hass, 57, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail, said Manuel Aguirre, the judge who led the sentencing and announced the decision. The court determined that Hass violated laws that those adopting children must be no older than 50 and must show they can provide a loving home where a mother and father are present and be able to educate and raise a child.
Police detained Hass in 2006, saying he appeared to have taken steps to adopt some 30 Paraguayan children with the intent of taking them to Germany to collect a government subsidy for each under Germany's child protection laws.
Hass said he would appeal to be set free immediately for time spent in confinement. Arrested in 2006, he spent several months in jail and was then under house arrest for more than a year.
At the time of his arrest, police said that Hass once claimed he adopted more than 370 children in countries including Russia, Romania, India and Pakistan.
For the remainging article: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/11/news/Paraguay-Superpapa.php
Adopted boy returned to Ukraine
Progress and hope, but still no family for adopted boy who was returned to Ukraine
Adopted boy who was returned to Ukraine is still in Duluth facility
BY MARY DIVINE
Pioneer Press
Article Last Updated: 12/08/2007 04:04:49 PM CST
Jeff and Michelle Bignell married in 1994. Seven years later, they adopted two unrelated children at a Ukrainian orphanage - the then-7-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl. The Bignells were aware Ukrainian doctors had diagnosed the boy with hyperactivity disorders, according to social worker Maggie Hansen's sworn petition filed in Washington County District Court. The Bignells told officials the boy had a hard time adjusting to the structure and rules of family and school after the new family settled into its Lakeland home, blocks from the St. Croix River, according to Hansen's petition. Deputies responded twice to reports he had run away or tried to....
When Washington County authorities heard the story, they were shocked. A Lakeland couple who had adopted a troubled 7-year-old Ukrainian boy apparently had returned him to his native country. County officials worked for a year to bring the boy back to Minnesota. Finally, a Ukrainian court cleared the way, and a Washington County social worker flew to Ukraine and retrieved the boy in December 2006....
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Adopted boy who was returned to Ukraine is still in Duluth facility
BY MARY DIVINE
Pioneer Press
Article Last Updated: 12/08/2007 04:04:49 PM CST
Jeff and Michelle Bignell married in 1994. Seven years later, they adopted two unrelated children at a Ukrainian orphanage - the then-7-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl. The Bignells were aware Ukrainian doctors had diagnosed the boy with hyperactivity disorders, according to social worker Maggie Hansen's sworn petition filed in Washington County District Court. The Bignells told officials the boy had a hard time adjusting to the structure and rules of family and school after the new family settled into its Lakeland home, blocks from the St. Croix River, according to Hansen's petition. Deputies responded twice to reports he had run away or tried to....
When Washington County authorities heard the story, they were shocked. A Lakeland couple who had adopted a troubled 7-year-old Ukrainian boy apparently had returned him to his native country. County officials worked for a year to bring the boy back to Minnesota. Finally, a Ukrainian court cleared the way, and a Washington County social worker flew to Ukraine and retrieved the boy in December 2006....
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Emily Saunders finds the missing piece to her puzzle
Emily Saunders finds the missing piece of her puzzle
By Allie Shah, Star Tribune
Last update: December 30, 2007 - 6:15 AM
Emily Saunders made a startling discovery this year - she has a twin sister who lives halfway around the globe. This week, the two will come face to face for the first time since their birth 21 years ago.
For five minutes, Emily Saunders was alone. Then her twin sister was born. Their mother, a poor South Korean woman who was not expecting twins and gave birth out of wedlock, made a fateful decision. She would give one girl up. That was Emily, who was adopted when she was 4 months old by Jackie and Eric Saunders of Wyoming, Minn.
For 21 years, neither Emily nor her twin, Eunjin, had a clue the other one existed. Their families did not tell them until this year. On Thursday, Emily will fly to South Korea to meet her mirror image and try to stitch her past with her present. She hopes meeting her sister can fill a void that has contributed to turmoil in her life.The days leading up to the trip are a mixture of excitement and nervousness. She's packing a lifetime of photos to share with her sister. She also has a long list of questions for her birth mother, who has colon cancer and told Emily she wanted to meet her before she dies. ¶ At the top of Emily's list, not surprisingly, is "Why?"
When the Saunderses chose to adopt Emily, they knew she was a twin. But Jackie Saunders says the adoption agency told them the other sister "must have died" because as a matter of policy, they did not separate twins.
Those words, "must have," gnawed at Jackie Saunders, who kept after the agency. Soon they learned the truth: Eunjin was alive and living with her mother. The Saunderses asked the agency to contact them immediately if the twins' birth mother ever released Eunjin so they could adopt her, too.
Years passed, and the Saunderses did not tell Emily that she had a twin sister....
For the remaining article: http://www.startribune.com/local/12916351.html
By Allie Shah, Star Tribune
Last update: December 30, 2007 - 6:15 AM
Emily Saunders made a startling discovery this year - she has a twin sister who lives halfway around the globe. This week, the two will come face to face for the first time since their birth 21 years ago.
For five minutes, Emily Saunders was alone. Then her twin sister was born. Their mother, a poor South Korean woman who was not expecting twins and gave birth out of wedlock, made a fateful decision. She would give one girl up. That was Emily, who was adopted when she was 4 months old by Jackie and Eric Saunders of Wyoming, Minn.
For 21 years, neither Emily nor her twin, Eunjin, had a clue the other one existed. Their families did not tell them until this year. On Thursday, Emily will fly to South Korea to meet her mirror image and try to stitch her past with her present. She hopes meeting her sister can fill a void that has contributed to turmoil in her life.The days leading up to the trip are a mixture of excitement and nervousness. She's packing a lifetime of photos to share with her sister. She also has a long list of questions for her birth mother, who has colon cancer and told Emily she wanted to meet her before she dies. ¶ At the top of Emily's list, not surprisingly, is "Why?"
When the Saunderses chose to adopt Emily, they knew she was a twin. But Jackie Saunders says the adoption agency told them the other sister "must have died" because as a matter of policy, they did not separate twins.
Those words, "must have," gnawed at Jackie Saunders, who kept after the agency. Soon they learned the truth: Eunjin was alive and living with her mother. The Saunderses asked the agency to contact them immediately if the twins' birth mother ever released Eunjin so they could adopt her, too.
Years passed, and the Saunderses did not tell Emily that she had a twin sister....
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Dead boy's adoptive dad tries for parole
Dead boy's adoptive dad tries for parole
Thursday, December 06, 2007
BY RALPH R. ORTEGA
The Star-Ledger
She mopped floors, attended Bible study and completed self-help courses to seek her freedom after convictions for child abuse and manslaughter in the death of her young adopted son in Hunterdon County seven years ago. But the one thing Brenda Matthey didn't do was admit her part in 7-year-old Viktor's death, according to a state parole board decision that denied her release last month.
"Inmate accepts no responsibility, or remorse for crime," was hand-written on the panel's decision after an October hearing. It was the 42-year-old woman's last chance for release before her sentence reaches its maximum in 2009. Today, the parole board will determine whether her husband has been reformed. Robert Matthey, 44, is expected to appeal for his release from Southwood State Prison, where he is serving time for Viktor's death.
Today, the parole board will determine whether her husband has been reformed. Robert Matthey, 44, is expected to appeal for his release from Southwood State Prison, where he is serving time for Viktor's death.
"I hope that he gets released. I think that he's learned from his bad choices," said Matthey's mother, Phyllis Matthey-Johnson, who sided with prosecutors against the Mattheys.
The verdicts held the couple accountable for the end of Viktor's life, after he and his younger twin brothers were adopted by the Mattheys from a Russian orphanage in December 1999.
Viktor's life with the Mattheys was a nightmare, according to prosecutors, who accused the couple of locking the child in a basement pump room of their Union Township home as a form of punishment. He died of hypothermia 10 months after his adoption, according to the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office. The Mattheys accepted responsibility in Viktor's death under a plea deal and were given four-year prison terms on the manslaughter charges at their May sentencing. Their sentences ran concurrently with those on related 2004 child abuse convictions, which were dropped from 10 to seven years.
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Parents on trial for adopted son's death
Published: 27 Feb 06 18:42 CETOnline: http://www.thelocal.se/3153/
The adoptive parents of a three year old boy who died after untreated wounds led to blood poisoning appeared before Jönköping district court on Monday accused of manslaughter.
In the mass of research material presented to the court were horrific pictures of the boy's injuries. When his mother eventually called an ambulance to their residence in the Jönköping area, the boy showed no signs of life."It's clear that the boy must have been in enormous pain," said prosecutor Stefan Edwardson.
For the rest of the article: http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3153&date=20060227
Thursday, December 06, 2007
BY RALPH R. ORTEGA
The Star-Ledger
She mopped floors, attended Bible study and completed self-help courses to seek her freedom after convictions for child abuse and manslaughter in the death of her young adopted son in Hunterdon County seven years ago. But the one thing Brenda Matthey didn't do was admit her part in 7-year-old Viktor's death, according to a state parole board decision that denied her release last month.
"Inmate accepts no responsibility, or remorse for crime," was hand-written on the panel's decision after an October hearing. It was the 42-year-old woman's last chance for release before her sentence reaches its maximum in 2009. Today, the parole board will determine whether her husband has been reformed. Robert Matthey, 44, is expected to appeal for his release from Southwood State Prison, where he is serving time for Viktor's death.
Today, the parole board will determine whether her husband has been reformed. Robert Matthey, 44, is expected to appeal for his release from Southwood State Prison, where he is serving time for Viktor's death.
"I hope that he gets released. I think that he's learned from his bad choices," said Matthey's mother, Phyllis Matthey-Johnson, who sided with prosecutors against the Mattheys.
The verdicts held the couple accountable for the end of Viktor's life, after he and his younger twin brothers were adopted by the Mattheys from a Russian orphanage in December 1999.
Viktor's life with the Mattheys was a nightmare, according to prosecutors, who accused the couple of locking the child in a basement pump room of their Union Township home as a form of punishment. He died of hypothermia 10 months after his adoption, according to the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office. The Mattheys accepted responsibility in Viktor's death under a plea deal and were given four-year prison terms on the manslaughter charges at their May sentencing. Their sentences ran concurrently with those on related 2004 child abuse convictions, which were dropped from 10 to seven years.
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Parents on trial for adopted son's death
Published: 27 Feb 06 18:42 CETOnline: http://www.thelocal.se/3153/
The adoptive parents of a three year old boy who died after untreated wounds led to blood poisoning appeared before Jönköping district court on Monday accused of manslaughter.
In the mass of research material presented to the court were horrific pictures of the boy's injuries. When his mother eventually called an ambulance to their residence in the Jönköping area, the boy showed no signs of life."It's clear that the boy must have been in enormous pain," said prosecutor Stefan Edwardson.
For the rest of the article: http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3153&date=20060227
Guatemalan bishops fear for-profit adoption approach
Guatemalan bishops fear for-profit adoption approach Guatemala, Dec. 11, 2007 (FIDES/CWNews. com) - The Catholic bishops of Guatemala are concerned that adoption agencies may be motivated by a desire for profit rather than the welfare of children, the Fides news service reports. "In Guatemala, some people have made adoption of children a profitable business, losing the noble desire to give a home to a child who has been abandoned, or is disabled or unwanted." This affirmation was part of a statement issued by the bishops' conference of Guatemala in view of the imminent approval on December 11 of a new adoption law.
The statement reads, "people trade the lives of girls and boys as if they were products, purchased through networks of child trafficking. " Many of the children are not given voluntarily; instead we see "trickery, renting of wombs, and kidnapping."
The bishops say that this situation is a symptom of a profound crisis in human and moral values in the country. "Congress must now shoulder its responsibility approving an adoption law which protects and guarantees the rights of the child and adopt a firm position against the excesses and immoral attitudes which have turned adoption into a trade," the bishops' statement concludes. http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=55276
The statement reads, "people trade the lives of girls and boys as if they were products, purchased through networks of child trafficking. " Many of the children are not given voluntarily; instead we see "trickery, renting of wombs, and kidnapping."
The bishops say that this situation is a symptom of a profound crisis in human and moral values in the country. "Congress must now shoulder its responsibility approving an adoption law which protects and guarantees the rights of the child and adopt a firm position against the excesses and immoral attitudes which have turned adoption into a trade," the bishops' statement concludes. http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=55276
Trafficking for International Adoption
Trafficking for International Adoption
Trafficking for International Adoption: Sometimes we forget that human trafficking is not just for sexual exploitation.“Children will require long-term psychological support to overcome the trauma of the physical abuse and the separation from their families for periods ranging from many months to two years. Some children are further distressed by the separation from their siblings.”
http://claresays.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/trafficking-for-international-adoption/
I like Clare's drive. I hope to spread awareness that trafficking can also expand to the way adoption agencies consistently and profitably send babies to foreign families "in the name of God." Watch out for any adoption agency who cannot prove the children are orphans by also providing death certificates from both parents. Since the great majority of all children removed come from families, the truth needs to be told. If organizations really want to help, support the family unit. Don't take the children away! Eventually everyone suffers losses.
Trafficking for International Adoption: Sometimes we forget that human trafficking is not just for sexual exploitation.“Children will require long-term psychological support to overcome the trauma of the physical abuse and the separation from their families for periods ranging from many months to two years. Some children are further distressed by the separation from their siblings.”
http://claresays.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/trafficking-for-international-adoption/
I like Clare's drive. I hope to spread awareness that trafficking can also expand to the way adoption agencies consistently and profitably send babies to foreign families "in the name of God." Watch out for any adoption agency who cannot prove the children are orphans by also providing death certificates from both parents. Since the great majority of all children removed come from families, the truth needs to be told. If organizations really want to help, support the family unit. Don't take the children away! Eventually everyone suffers losses.
U.S. adoptee a stranger in his birthplace
U.S. adoptee a stranger in his birthplace
An adoptee, age 29, who was adopted by a U.S. couple when he was 6 months old has been deported to El Salvador after spending five years in immigration detention in Otay Mesa while he appealed his case."Described by his father as "a middle-class white kid" raised in an Anglo household, Mustanich learned a handful of Spanish words from Latino detainees while in immigration detention, but is otherwise starting over as a stranger in a strange land."Check out the link below for the rest of the article: http://news.%20adoption.%20com/out/us-%20adoptee-a-%20stranger-%20in-his-birthplac%20e
An adoptee, age 29, who was adopted by a U.S. couple when he was 6 months old has been deported to El Salvador after spending five years in immigration detention in Otay Mesa while he appealed his case."Described by his father as "a middle-class white kid" raised in an Anglo household, Mustanich learned a handful of Spanish words from Latino detainees while in immigration detention, but is otherwise starting over as a stranger in a strange land."Check out the link below for the rest of the article: http://news.%20adoption.%20com/out/us-%20adoptee-a-%20stranger-%20in-his-birthplac%20e
Gap-year mission to find baby orphans in France
Gap-year mission to find baby orphans for France
The article mentions that six members of Zoe’s Ark, a French charity, tried to take 103 children back to France, and a few were not even orphans. A total of 30,000 French families have been approved to be adoptive parents and there are not enough French children to go around. They believe that they do not have the diplomatic support of financial clout like wealthy Americans: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4419249.ece
The article mentions that six members of Zoe’s Ark, a French charity, tried to take 103 children back to France, and a few were not even orphans. A total of 30,000 French families have been approved to be adoptive parents and there are not enough French children to go around. They believe that they do not have the diplomatic support of financial clout like wealthy Americans: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4419249.ece
Truc Ninh District's Social Protection Centre
Truc Ninh District's Social Protection Centre
“VietNamNet Bridge - Nam Dinh Police have arrested two more suspects for their alleged involvement in an illegal adoption ring, according to Nguyen Ngoc Kha from the provincial Investigation PoliceDepartment.”A father and son allegedly picked up 242 children, mostly infants and took them to Truc Ninh’s Social Protection Center. According to article, about 100 children under 5 years old have allegedly been illegally put up for adoption since 2006.http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2008/07/795732/
“VietNamNet Bridge - Nam Dinh Police have arrested two more suspects for their alleged involvement in an illegal adoption ring, according to Nguyen Ngoc Kha from the provincial Investigation PoliceDepartment.”A father and son allegedly picked up 242 children, mostly infants and took them to Truc Ninh’s Social Protection Center. According to article, about 100 children under 5 years old have allegedly been illegally put up for adoption since 2006.http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2008/07/795732/
Guatemala study shows baby adoptions controlled by a criminal ring
ADOPTION MOST FOUL
Like many children, Esther was abducted when she was only a few-months-old. According to article, several thousand Americans adopt from Guatemala. The little girl was abducted when she was a few months old and reappeared under a different name. A band of armed men ripped the child from her mother’s arms. Her mother scoured hospitals and orphanages across the country. After DNA testing, the mother finally got her daughter back. Here's the link: http://www.ibnlive.com/news/international-adoption-reveals-its-dark-side/69725-2.html
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Guatemala Study Shows Baby Adoptions Controlled By A Criminal Ring
November 22, 2007
8:43 a.m.
EST Vittorio Hernandez -
AHN News WriterGuatemala City, Guatemala (AHN) - A study by experts from the government, church and charitable agencies said the rise in international adoptions of Guatemalan infants is due to the presence of a criminal ring controlling the baby trade. Since 2004, more than 18,000 adoptions have been approved by the state, involving millions of dollars.
With each adoption transaction generating from $13,000 to $40,000, the total amount involved between $234 million to $720 million. It is shared among participants of the infant trade that thrives because of the state's indifference, the study said.
Among the people involved in the whole adoption process are lawyers, doctors, nurses, midwives, social workers, hotel owners, interpreters, public registrars and state workers. Of the 18,376 adoption cases registered since 2004, only 0.5 percent of the babies were placed with Guatemalan families, while 94 percent were given to American parents.
The Daily Journal of Venezuela, quoting portions of the report, said, "The leaders of the criminal economy have crafted mechanism to assure the procurement of babies and later coordinate the adoption proceedings before the PGH (Attorney General's Office) and guarantee economic benefits for all the members of the adoption networks."
Because of the increasing demand overseas for Guatemalan babies, child traffickers at times seize babies at gunpoint from poor Guatemalan mothers.
The Survivor Foundation, one of the groups behind the study, said it will lead this week protests in front of the Supreme Court and Congress to push for the passage of adoption laws that are in line with The Hague Convention on International Adoptions.
Victims of the adoption ring have started the protest Monday in front of the Public Prosecutor's office. One Guatemalan mother, Ana Escobar, said two armed men beat her and took away her son. She told EFE News, "Before leaving, they told me they would kill me if I reported the kidnapping."
Norma Cruz, president of the foundation, pointed to lawyers benefiting from adoption deals as the authors of a lobby group that will block the legislation of such a law. The ease of adoption process in the country facilitates inter-country movement of children. Only few questions are asked during the process.
While Guatemalan officials insist there was no force or coercion involved, they admitted most of the processed adoption cases had improper documentation and the adoption house handling the infants did not even have licenses.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009239458
Like many children, Esther was abducted when she was only a few-months-old. According to article, several thousand Americans adopt from Guatemala. The little girl was abducted when she was a few months old and reappeared under a different name. A band of armed men ripped the child from her mother’s arms. Her mother scoured hospitals and orphanages across the country. After DNA testing, the mother finally got her daughter back. Here's the link: http://www.ibnlive.com/news/international-adoption-reveals-its-dark-side/69725-2.html
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Guatemala Study Shows Baby Adoptions Controlled By A Criminal Ring
November 22, 2007
8:43 a.m.
EST Vittorio Hernandez -
AHN News WriterGuatemala City, Guatemala (AHN) - A study by experts from the government, church and charitable agencies said the rise in international adoptions of Guatemalan infants is due to the presence of a criminal ring controlling the baby trade. Since 2004, more than 18,000 adoptions have been approved by the state, involving millions of dollars.
With each adoption transaction generating from $13,000 to $40,000, the total amount involved between $234 million to $720 million. It is shared among participants of the infant trade that thrives because of the state's indifference, the study said.
Among the people involved in the whole adoption process are lawyers, doctors, nurses, midwives, social workers, hotel owners, interpreters, public registrars and state workers. Of the 18,376 adoption cases registered since 2004, only 0.5 percent of the babies were placed with Guatemalan families, while 94 percent were given to American parents.
The Daily Journal of Venezuela, quoting portions of the report, said, "The leaders of the criminal economy have crafted mechanism to assure the procurement of babies and later coordinate the adoption proceedings before the PGH (Attorney General's Office) and guarantee economic benefits for all the members of the adoption networks."
Because of the increasing demand overseas for Guatemalan babies, child traffickers at times seize babies at gunpoint from poor Guatemalan mothers.
The Survivor Foundation, one of the groups behind the study, said it will lead this week protests in front of the Supreme Court and Congress to push for the passage of adoption laws that are in line with The Hague Convention on International Adoptions.
Victims of the adoption ring have started the protest Monday in front of the Public Prosecutor's office. One Guatemalan mother, Ana Escobar, said two armed men beat her and took away her son. She told EFE News, "Before leaving, they told me they would kill me if I reported the kidnapping."
Norma Cruz, president of the foundation, pointed to lawyers benefiting from adoption deals as the authors of a lobby group that will block the legislation of such a law. The ease of adoption process in the country facilitates inter-country movement of children. Only few questions are asked during the process.
While Guatemalan officials insist there was no force or coercion involved, they admitted most of the processed adoption cases had improper documentation and the adoption house handling the infants did not even have licenses.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009239458
www.adopted-abused.com
http://www.adopted-abused.com/
This website should be taken seriously by the adoption community. If your adoptive parents, family, extended family, community, country of birth, and/or even the country you've been sent to have neglected your emotional needs, abused you, or have failed to acknowledge your losses, consider this website. When it comes time for adoptees to join forces and file for our birthrights back--maybe even file somesort of class action against the adoption agencies, the stories and support from fellow adoptees can build a bigger case for all involved. Adoptees deserve to be heard! I really appreciate those individuals who take the time to acknowledge the hardships many from our community have survived. Until adoptees are taken seriously (instead of demeaned and labeled as "angry" or "ungrateful"), the industry will continue to get away with displacing children from their families.
This website should be taken seriously by the adoption community. If your adoptive parents, family, extended family, community, country of birth, and/or even the country you've been sent to have neglected your emotional needs, abused you, or have failed to acknowledge your losses, consider this website. When it comes time for adoptees to join forces and file for our birthrights back--maybe even file somesort of class action against the adoption agencies, the stories and support from fellow adoptees can build a bigger case for all involved. Adoptees deserve to be heard! I really appreciate those individuals who take the time to acknowledge the hardships many from our community have survived. Until adoptees are taken seriously (instead of demeaned and labeled as "angry" or "ungrateful"), the industry will continue to get away with displacing children from their families.
http://adoptionjustice.typepad.com
http://adoptionjustice.typepad.com/
TRACK is a history and information project and organization with the goal of healing the relationship between the overseas adoptees and Korea by advocating for a transparent investigation in and a full understanding of the Korean adoption issue, both past and present. From 1953-2006, officially 161,202 children have been sent away from the Republic of Korea as part of the international adoption program. In addition, an unknown number of children have been adopted privately and have not been recorded in the government's statistics, meaning the number might be as high as 200,000. The number of Korean core family members who have been directly affected by international adoption -- mothers, fathers, siblings, and grandparents -- is estimated to exceed 1 million people, or one out of every 49 South Koreans. TRACK is currently embarked on an investigation of six cases of adoption from the 1970s and 1980s that are representative abuses that have been commonly reported within the adoption community. Truth and reconciliation is for the healing of Korean society, adoptees, natural families, adoptive families, and adoptees’ significant others. TRACK aims to provide a full accounting of the practice of international adoption in order to reconcile the different groups who make up the adoption community of Korea; envision our bright future together; and preserve the rights of Korean children and their families.
TRACK is a history and information project and organization with the goal of healing the relationship between the overseas adoptees and Korea by advocating for a transparent investigation in and a full understanding of the Korean adoption issue, both past and present. From 1953-2006, officially 161,202 children have been sent away from the Republic of Korea as part of the international adoption program. In addition, an unknown number of children have been adopted privately and have not been recorded in the government's statistics, meaning the number might be as high as 200,000. The number of Korean core family members who have been directly affected by international adoption -- mothers, fathers, siblings, and grandparents -- is estimated to exceed 1 million people, or one out of every 49 South Koreans. TRACK is currently embarked on an investigation of six cases of adoption from the 1970s and 1980s that are representative abuses that have been commonly reported within the adoption community. Truth and reconciliation is for the healing of Korean society, adoptees, natural families, adoptive families, and adoptees’ significant others. TRACK aims to provide a full accounting of the practice of international adoption in order to reconcile the different groups who make up the adoption community of Korea; envision our bright future together; and preserve the rights of Korean children and their families.
Adoption home tampered with children's records + more
COVER STORYTHE ADOPTION MARKET
ASHA KRISHNAKUMAR
A Frontline investigation lays bare a multi-billion-dollar, countrywide racket in inter-country adoption of children, run by private adoption agencies that exploit the loopholes in the rules.
P. GOUTHAM A new-born female child, which was sold by her mother in Salem, in the arms of her sisters after she was restored to the family by the district administration in 2002.
THE arrest in Chennai on May 3, 2005, of five kidnappers, who have sold over 350 children to an adoption agency in the city over many years; the inquiry ordered by the Delhi government into the process of inter-country adoptions in 10 agencies in the Capital; and the recent moves in Andhra Pradesh to book Shalini Misra, a former Director of the Women Development and Child Welfare Department, who had cracked the adoption racket in the State in 1999, under the SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act, have blown the lid off a massive adoption racket in the country. Trade in inter-country adoptions, in particular, appears to be a "roaring business" for some unscrupulous agencies.
In 1999, the country was shocked by the revelation of an inter-country adoption racket in Andhra Pradesh when S. Peter Subbiah of Good Samaritan Evangelical Social Welfare Association was found buying and selling babies.... For the rest of the article:
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Child adoption racket
CID sounds alert for Anita Sen at airports.The wife of a senior IPS officer is to be detained if she attempts to flee the country in association with child adoption racket. 61 children were rescued from Precious Moments Adoption Home, “run by Sen for illegal procurement, confinement and sale of infants and children.” 187 children and infants were rescued from eight adoption homes over the last 11 days.http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/may/01ap.htm & AP child trafficking accused in Bangalore: Police: http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/apr/30ap.htm
Adoption home tampered with children's records
A woman was allegedly lured to give away her son and daughter to Precious Moments Adoption Home. The children were declared orphans, which was not the case. The parents were merely legally separated. The names of the children were changed in the records. The children were among 61 children rescued by Child Welfare Department: http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/may/02jafri.htm
Meth, adoption, deportation : Adopted daughter from India could be deported due to adoptive mother’s death, stolen adoption papers and immigration problems. http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10011361
73 infants rescued in Andhra Pradesh
“The Andhra Pradesh Government has tightened rules for adoption, to prevent child trafficking, even as officials of the Women Development and Child Welfare Department rescued 34 babies from a fake child adoption agency in the city on Friday evening.”Officials conducted a surprise check the premises of a voluntary organization and found that the organizers were involved in trafficking of children by selling them to foreigners in the name of in-country and intercountry adoption. This article is about the new rules placed on nursing homes and hospitals in an effort to control child trafficking. Voluntary organizations “have deviated from the principles and norms and are carrying on the trade of inter-country adoptions for monetary benefits, the director pointed out.”http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/apr/21ap.htm
ASHA KRISHNAKUMAR
A Frontline investigation lays bare a multi-billion-dollar, countrywide racket in inter-country adoption of children, run by private adoption agencies that exploit the loopholes in the rules.
P. GOUTHAM A new-born female child, which was sold by her mother in Salem, in the arms of her sisters after she was restored to the family by the district administration in 2002.
THE arrest in Chennai on May 3, 2005, of five kidnappers, who have sold over 350 children to an adoption agency in the city over many years; the inquiry ordered by the Delhi government into the process of inter-country adoptions in 10 agencies in the Capital; and the recent moves in Andhra Pradesh to book Shalini Misra, a former Director of the Women Development and Child Welfare Department, who had cracked the adoption racket in the State in 1999, under the SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act, have blown the lid off a massive adoption racket in the country. Trade in inter-country adoptions, in particular, appears to be a "roaring business" for some unscrupulous agencies.
In 1999, the country was shocked by the revelation of an inter-country adoption racket in Andhra Pradesh when S. Peter Subbiah of Good Samaritan Evangelical Social Welfare Association was found buying and selling babies.... For the rest of the article:
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20050603006700400.htm&date=fl2211/&prd=fline&
Child adoption racket
CID sounds alert for Anita Sen at airports.The wife of a senior IPS officer is to be detained if she attempts to flee the country in association with child adoption racket. 61 children were rescued from Precious Moments Adoption Home, “run by Sen for illegal procurement, confinement and sale of infants and children.” 187 children and infants were rescued from eight adoption homes over the last 11 days.http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/may/01ap.htm & AP child trafficking accused in Bangalore: Police: http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/apr/30ap.htm
Adoption home tampered with children's records
A woman was allegedly lured to give away her son and daughter to Precious Moments Adoption Home. The children were declared orphans, which was not the case. The parents were merely legally separated. The names of the children were changed in the records. The children were among 61 children rescued by Child Welfare Department: http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/may/02jafri.htm
Meth, adoption, deportation : Adopted daughter from India could be deported due to adoptive mother’s death, stolen adoption papers and immigration problems. http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10011361
73 infants rescued in Andhra Pradesh
“The Andhra Pradesh Government has tightened rules for adoption, to prevent child trafficking, even as officials of the Women Development and Child Welfare Department rescued 34 babies from a fake child adoption agency in the city on Friday evening.”Officials conducted a surprise check the premises of a voluntary organization and found that the organizers were involved in trafficking of children by selling them to foreigners in the name of in-country and intercountry adoption. This article is about the new rules placed on nursing homes and hospitals in an effort to control child trafficking. Voluntary organizations “have deviated from the principles and norms and are carrying on the trade of inter-country adoptions for monetary benefits, the director pointed out.”http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/apr/21ap.htm
Russian Education & Science Ministry to look into death of boy adoptee
Russian Education, Science Ministry to Look into Death of Boy Adoptee
MOSCOW. July 19 (Interfax) - The Russian Education and Science Ministry is determined to thoroughly look into all circumstances surrounding the death of 1.5-year-old Dima Yakovlev, a Russian boy recently adopted by a U.S. family, Education and Science Minister Dmitry Fursenko told Interfax. Fursenko called the incident "extraordinary. ""This is the first time that a tragedy has happened with a child adopted through an organization accredited in Russia," Fursenko said. All other deaths of Russian children adopted by U.S. families were related "to so-called independent adoption," he said.Story Source: Daily News Bulletin; Moscow - English The remaining article:http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews+articleid_2413557&title=Russian_Education.html
4/20/2005 9:27:14 Source ::: AFPMOSCOW:
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MOSCOW. July 19 (Interfax) - The Russian Education and Science Ministry is determined to thoroughly look into all circumstances surrounding the death of 1.5-year-old Dima Yakovlev, a Russian boy recently adopted by a U.S. family, Education and Science Minister Dmitry Fursenko told Interfax. Fursenko called the incident "extraordinary. ""This is the first time that a tragedy has happened with a child adopted through an organization accredited in Russia," Fursenko said. All other deaths of Russian children adopted by U.S. families were related "to so-called independent adoption," he said.Story Source: Daily News Bulletin; Moscow - English The remaining article:http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews+articleid_2413557&title=Russian_Education.html
4/20/2005 9:27:14 Source ::: AFPMOSCOW:
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