This video demonstrates what goes on behind agency profiteering and trafficking for adoption not only in India but around the world.
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Are short stay homes hand in glove with adoption centres?
Activists smell 'baby booking' racket as
authorities seek explanation from SOFOSH and short stay home Chaitanya Mahila
Mandal upon finding pregnant 15-yr-old under care of adoption centre worker at
Sassoon General Hospital
The Women and Child Development department has sought an explanation from the Society of Friends of Sassoon Hospital (SOFOSH), an adoption centre, and the Chaitanya Mahila Mandal, a short stay home, after it found a 15-year-old physically challenged pregnant girl was being looked after by a caretaker from SOFOSH during her hospitalisation at Sassoon.
Meet the Parents: The Dark Side of Overseas Adoption
A Midwestern kid's family believes his birth parents put him up for adoption. An Indian couple claim he was kidnapped from them and sold. Who's right?
Prior to 2002, for instance, Peterson had sent upwards of $150,000 to an Indian orphanage called Preet Mandir. The conditions were terrible—three babies died there while awaiting clearance for adoption by Peterson's clients. And when orphanage director J. Bhasin began illegally demanding thousands of dollars above and beyond the usual donation, and would not relinquish the children without the payments, Peterson severed the relationship. (She later filed a complaint about Preet Mandir and its director with the Indian government.)
Four years later, reporters from Indian TV news network cnn-ibn approached Preet Mandir posing as adoptive parents, and Bhasin told them they could buy two children for $24,000. The resulting story led to revocation of the orphanage's adoption license, but the Indian government has since reinstated it on a probationary basis. "The profit motive exists on both sides," Peterson says. "One American agency I worked with just wanted to know that I could get them a certain number of babies a year, and wasn't concerned with where they came from."
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Prior to 2002, for instance, Peterson had sent upwards of $150,000 to an Indian orphanage called Preet Mandir. The conditions were terrible—three babies died there while awaiting clearance for adoption by Peterson's clients. And when orphanage director J. Bhasin began illegally demanding thousands of dollars above and beyond the usual donation, and would not relinquish the children without the payments, Peterson severed the relationship. (She later filed a complaint about Preet Mandir and its director with the Indian government.)
Four years later, reporters from Indian TV news network cnn-ibn approached Preet Mandir posing as adoptive parents, and Bhasin told them they could buy two children for $24,000. The resulting story led to revocation of the orphanage's adoption license, but the Indian government has since reinstated it on a probationary basis. "The profit motive exists on both sides," Peterson says. "One American agency I worked with just wanted to know that I could get them a certain number of babies a year, and wasn't concerned with where they came from."
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Bought in villages, sold in cities
Maharashtra: Touts of adoption agencies love to tour villages in Maharashtra. Here babies from poor families and from unwed mothers can be bought cheap and then sold at adoption homes as orphans.
"In rural areas in particular, the chances of this happening is quite high. Babies can be found in certain villages in the eight districts of Marathwada and Jalgaon," says Chairman Child Welfare Committee (CWC) Aurangabad, Dr Wankhede.
The CWC in Aurangabad gets approximately 40 abandoned children annually.
CWC member from Solapur Devayani Tumma often gets calls from adoption agencies making a sales pitch for abandoned children. “Adoption agencies call us and tell us to send the babies to their institutions,” she says....
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"In rural areas in particular, the chances of this happening is quite high. Babies can be found in certain villages in the eight districts of Marathwada and Jalgaon," says Chairman Child Welfare Committee (CWC) Aurangabad, Dr Wankhede.
The CWC in Aurangabad gets approximately 40 abandoned children annually.
CWC member from Solapur Devayani Tumma often gets calls from adoption agencies making a sales pitch for abandoned children. “Adoption agencies call us and tell us to send the babies to their institutions,” she says....
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Orphanage paedophiles are jailed
A British charity worker who founded and ran several shelters for street children in Bombay was sentenced to six years' imprisonment yesterday, convicted of sexually abusing boys in his care.
A retired Royal Navy commander from London who was a regular visitor to the homes was convicted of the same offences, and the Indian manager of the shelters was found guilty of aiding and abetting their crimes.
Known as a 'saviour' of street children, Duncan Grant, 61, set up three shelters for homeless children aged eight to 18 in Bombay in the Nineties. He collected money from churches and schools in Britain, claiming in fundraising brochures that the homes were places where deprived children could 'receive medical attention, share...joys and sorrows with others or simply find someone to talk to'. Actress Felicity Kendal was persuaded to become a patron....
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A retired Royal Navy commander from London who was a regular visitor to the homes was convicted of the same offences, and the Indian manager of the shelters was found guilty of aiding and abetting their crimes.
Known as a 'saviour' of street children, Duncan Grant, 61, set up three shelters for homeless children aged eight to 18 in Bombay in the Nineties. He collected money from churches and schools in Britain, claiming in fundraising brochures that the homes were places where deprived children could 'receive medical attention, share...joys and sorrows with others or simply find someone to talk to'. Actress Felicity Kendal was persuaded to become a patron....
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British charity workers abused orphanage boys
By Stephen Khan
Sunday, 19 March 2006
Two British men posing as charity workers subjected impoverished Indian street children to repeated acts of sexual abuse after establishing an orphanage in Bombay.
A court in the city yesterday sentenced Duncan Grant and Allan Waters to six years in prison after finding them guilty of abusing boys at the shelter set up by Grant. They were also fined £20,000 each.
The court also found an Indian, William D'souza, who managed the home, guilty of aiding and abetting the crime. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
"The judgment should go some way to ensure that India is wiped out from the map of people who indulge in sexual abuse of children," said the judge, P S Paranjape, who also announced the formation of a committee to decide how the fines could be used to rehabilitate the victims....
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Sunday, 19 March 2006
Two British men posing as charity workers subjected impoverished Indian street children to repeated acts of sexual abuse after establishing an orphanage in Bombay.
A court in the city yesterday sentenced Duncan Grant and Allan Waters to six years in prison after finding them guilty of abusing boys at the shelter set up by Grant. They were also fined £20,000 each.
The court also found an Indian, William D'souza, who managed the home, guilty of aiding and abetting the crime. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
"The judgment should go some way to ensure that India is wiped out from the map of people who indulge in sexual abuse of children," said the judge, P S Paranjape, who also announced the formation of a committee to decide how the fines could be used to rehabilitate the victims....
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Baby trade booms at hospitals
One can easily buy a newborn babe for a few thousand taka, to keep or abuse as one wishes, at no other place than the downtown Dhaka Medical College Hospital and some clinics in its vicinity.
Every month, some two dozen infants change hands at the country's largest public hospital and the so-called clinics, sources said, adding the buyers in most cases are child-less couples.
The price range, however, is higher for boys than girls, the sources said. Depending on the identity of the parents, and the baby's look and complexion, the price of a girl child varies between Tk 9,000 and Tk 15,000 while that of a male child between Tk 12,000 and Tk 20,000....
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Every month, some two dozen infants change hands at the country's largest public hospital and the so-called clinics, sources said, adding the buyers in most cases are child-less couples.
The price range, however, is higher for boys than girls, the sources said. Depending on the identity of the parents, and the baby's look and complexion, the price of a girl child varies between Tk 9,000 and Tk 15,000 while that of a male child between Tk 12,000 and Tk 20,000....
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Man accused of raping adopted daughter
Statesman News Service
KURSEONG, March 29. — The Nava Jagaran Samiti at Sudhapatol in Kurseong has lodged an FIR at the Kurseong police station against Suraj Pradhan (53), a resident of Sudhapatol and an employee of the State Electicity Board, accusing him of raping his 10-year-old adopted daughter. The accused, Suraj Pradhan, had adopted the girl from Dhudia in Kurseong sub-division nearly three years ago....
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KURSEONG, March 29. — The Nava Jagaran Samiti at Sudhapatol in Kurseong has lodged an FIR at the Kurseong police station against Suraj Pradhan (53), a resident of Sudhapatol and an employee of the State Electicity Board, accusing him of raping his 10-year-old adopted daughter. The accused, Suraj Pradhan, had adopted the girl from Dhudia in Kurseong sub-division nearly three years ago....
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Biological mother and adoptive parent battle over child
Hyderabad, June 14: The city police is faced with a piquant question-- who should be the custodian of a child-- the woman who gave birth to her but abandoned her later, or the one who raised her?
Two-year-old Nikitha is at the centre of a battle involving her biological mother and a childless couple, who have raised her.
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Two-year-old Nikitha is at the centre of a battle involving her biological mother and a childless couple, who have raised her.
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University program makes adoption easier and less expensive
BY JON ANN LINDSEY
Adoptive parents call it "the paper chase"—the piles of documents and countless forms that pave their long road to parenthood.
It's tedious and time consuming, as Lena Yang can attest. Holding her energetic 16-month-old daughter, Lindsey, in her lap, she recalls gathering medical, financial and employment records, arranging home studies, dealing with adoption agencies and, because hers was an international adoption, U.S. and Chinese consulates....
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Adoptive parents call it "the paper chase"—the piles of documents and countless forms that pave their long road to parenthood.
It's tedious and time consuming, as Lena Yang can attest. Holding her energetic 16-month-old daughter, Lindsey, in her lap, she recalls gathering medical, financial and employment records, arranging home studies, dealing with adoption agencies and, because hers was an international adoption, U.S. and Chinese consulates....
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Chhattisgarh begins probe into alleged sale of newborns
By Indo Asian News Service
Raipur, June 6 (IANS) A probe was begun Tuesday into the alleged sale of
day-old twins by a poverty-stricken tribal father to a childless Christian
couple last week in the state's industrial town of Korba.
Samaru, 24, reportedly sold his newborn twin sons for Rs.100 - to buy food
for his impoverished family. But the couple that bought the infants said
their intention was to adopt them.
The twins' mother died an hour after the delivery Friday. The couple already
had five kids and the father has been struggling to feed them.
'It's a very serious issue', state Home Minister Ramvichar Netam told IANS,
adding the 'government has been compiling details of the alleged child sale
and local officials will be punished for not providing timely economic help
to the tribal family.'...
Raipur, June 6 (IANS) A probe was begun Tuesday into the alleged sale of
day-old twins by a poverty-stricken tribal father to a childless Christian
couple last week in the state's industrial town of Korba.
Samaru, 24, reportedly sold his newborn twin sons for Rs.100 - to buy food
for his impoverished family. But the couple that bought the infants said
their intention was to adopt them.
The twins' mother died an hour after the delivery Friday. The couple already
had five kids and the father has been struggling to feed them.
'It's a very serious issue', state Home Minister Ramvichar Netam told IANS,
adding the 'government has been compiling details of the alleged child sale
and local officials will be punished for not providing timely economic help
to the tribal family.'...
'I didn't look like my family... I felt isolated'
...But while many can undoubtedly offer the loving caring environment in which to raise a child and while many have the financial and emotional security to provide children with opportunities denied to them for whatever reason by their own biological parents, even the most apparently successful transracial adoption comes with difficulties.
"I was adopted when I five years old," says Perlita Harris, who was born in London in 1966 to Indian parents. "They lived in a village in Gloucestershire. It was a predominantly white, middle class area and from the start I was aware that there were few people around who looked like me.
"At the time there wasn't such a thing as adoption support, you were basically left to get on with it and while my adopted parents did everything they could to make me a part of the family, I was always going to stand out from them and my three older siblings.
"When I was six I wrote, 'My mummy is white, my daddy is white and Wendy is white and Ian is white and Peter is white and I am brown and I have black hair' and I think that sums it up....
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"I was adopted when I five years old," says Perlita Harris, who was born in London in 1966 to Indian parents. "They lived in a village in Gloucestershire. It was a predominantly white, middle class area and from the start I was aware that there were few people around who looked like me.
"At the time there wasn't such a thing as adoption support, you were basically left to get on with it and while my adopted parents did everything they could to make me a part of the family, I was always going to stand out from them and my three older siblings.
"When I was six I wrote, 'My mummy is white, my daddy is white and Wendy is white and Ian is white and Peter is white and I am brown and I have black hair' and I think that sums it up....
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'Baby snatcher' sends CNN-IBN notice
CNN-IBN
....However, the Director of CWC in Pune, A K Banerjee, himself runs an adoption agency accused of exploiting children.
"Bannerjee runs an adoption agency called Sampark, which has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Children are being sexually exploited at his agency," claims Ingrid Mendonca, who works for Actions for The Right of The Child.
CNN-IBN Special Investigation Team had, in another report, also exposed that only 11 agencies in Orissa have got the license to give babies in adoption, but the number of illegal adoption centres are manifold, with Rourkella having six of them....
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....However, the Director of CWC in Pune, A K Banerjee, himself runs an adoption agency accused of exploiting children.
"Bannerjee runs an adoption agency called Sampark, which has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Children are being sexually exploited at his agency," claims Ingrid Mendonca, who works for Actions for The Right of The Child.
CNN-IBN Special Investigation Team had, in another report, also exposed that only 11 agencies in Orissa have got the license to give babies in adoption, but the number of illegal adoption centres are manifold, with Rourkella having six of them....
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Baby snatchers prowl Konkan
Ruksh Chatterji / CNN-IBN
Konkan (Maharashtra): Misty hills, swollen rivers and incessant rain are common in Maharashtra's Konkan belt.
This sparsely populated region along the west coast doesn't have a single adoption home, making it the perfect hunting ground for baby snatchers.
"We need a children's home here so that couples from our district can adopt children without having to go to other districts," says Chairperson, Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Ratnagiri, Dr Shashwat Shere.
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Konkan (Maharashtra): Misty hills, swollen rivers and incessant rain are common in Maharashtra's Konkan belt.
This sparsely populated region along the west coast doesn't have a single adoption home, making it the perfect hunting ground for baby snatchers.
"We need a children's home here so that couples from our district can adopt children without having to go to other districts," says Chairperson, Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Ratnagiri, Dr Shashwat Shere.
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Proofs from adoption racket jigsaw
Ruksh Chatterji / CNN-IBN
Pune: Adoption agency Preet Mandir may have tried its best to burn possibly incriminating documents but CNN-IBN's Special Investigations Team has salvaged the evidence that exposes several irregularities in the functioning of the organisation.
Sifting through the soot and putting the pieces together, the team recovered complete files of two cases and a record of all the Australian visas applied for by Preet Mandir.
Also the diaries complete with entries build towards the increasing documentary evidence of irregularities in this adoption racket....
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Pune: Adoption agency Preet Mandir may have tried its best to burn possibly incriminating documents but CNN-IBN's Special Investigations Team has salvaged the evidence that exposes several irregularities in the functioning of the organisation.
Sifting through the soot and putting the pieces together, the team recovered complete files of two cases and a record of all the Australian visas applied for by Preet Mandir.
Also the diaries complete with entries build towards the increasing documentary evidence of irregularities in this adoption racket....
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NRI spills beans on Preet Mandir
CNN-IBN
New Delhi: Even as the owner of Preet Mandir, J S Bhasin, held a press conference to claim his innocence, CNN-IBN's Special Investigation Team continues to receive complaints from families for whom Preet Mandir was a trauma....
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New Delhi: Even as the owner of Preet Mandir, J S Bhasin, held a press conference to claim his innocence, CNN-IBN's Special Investigation Team continues to receive complaints from families for whom Preet Mandir was a trauma....
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Male-child shopping spree in Delhi
Neelu Vyas / CNN-IBN
New Delhi: Want a child ? Buy one. Is he disabled? Buy another. Quest for a male child has turned into a shopping expedition for a family who lament having adopted a child who later was found to have disabilities.
Nirlep Singh and his wife Harpreet adopted Pushpendra from Child Welfare Home in Delhi, a private adoption agency, when he was just four months old.
A few months later, they found that Pushpendra could not walk properly or talk. Now the couple wants another child – that too a boy....
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New Delhi: Want a child ? Buy one. Is he disabled? Buy another. Quest for a male child has turned into a shopping expedition for a family who lament having adopted a child who later was found to have disabilities.
Nirlep Singh and his wife Harpreet adopted Pushpendra from Child Welfare Home in Delhi, a private adoption agency, when he was just four months old.
A few months later, they found that Pushpendra could not walk properly or talk. Now the couple wants another child – that too a boy....
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Preet Mandir kids rescued
Sushobhan Patankar / CNN-IBN
Pune: The Maharshtra government has taken it's first hesitant steps in curbing child Trafficking in the state.
All Child Welfare Committees (CWCs) across the state have been asked to stop sending children to Preet Mandir.
Activists from NGOs across Pune demonstrated outside the office of the Commissioner for Women and Child Development, asking him to take action against those involved in the adoption racket exposed by CNN-IBN's Special investigation Team.
Says a member of an NGO, Nakul Kante, "It is our demand that Preet Mandir be completely shut down."
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Pune: The Maharshtra government has taken it's first hesitant steps in curbing child Trafficking in the state.
All Child Welfare Committees (CWCs) across the state have been asked to stop sending children to Preet Mandir.
Activists from NGOs across Pune demonstrated outside the office of the Commissioner for Women and Child Development, asking him to take action against those involved in the adoption racket exposed by CNN-IBN's Special investigation Team.
Says a member of an NGO, Nakul Kante, "It is our demand that Preet Mandir be completely shut down."
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Black Label bottle, cash and a child
VK Shashikumar / CNN-IBN
Pune: A CNN-IBN Special Investigation blew the lid off one of India's biggest adoption agencies that has broken every adoption rule in the land to sell babies illegally to foreign parents.
The Special Invstigation team exposed how this racket is nothing more than pure greed dressed up as charity.
A chance encounter at Preet Mandir with Xavier, an agent with a Spanish adoption agency, confirmed Preet Mandir's status as one of India's biggest inter-country adoption centers....
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Pune: A CNN-IBN Special Investigation blew the lid off one of India's biggest adoption agencies that has broken every adoption rule in the land to sell babies illegally to foreign parents.
The Special Invstigation team exposed how this racket is nothing more than pure greed dressed up as charity.
A chance encounter at Preet Mandir with Xavier, an agent with a Spanish adoption agency, confirmed Preet Mandir's status as one of India's biggest inter-country adoption centers....
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