This is the third such case I know of in the last year. Very hard to read: international adoption is supposed to promise an iron curtain of information and recourse. But look what happens behind iron curtains. There's complicity in the process.
In one case, the Irish adoptive family disappeared off the map--took the child and ran. Which was wrong, but I can't say I don't get it. In the other, the police don't know where the adoptive family lives--the proper post-adoption reports were never filed--and so they can only post a public request that the stolen child be returned. Which clearly will not happen.
Three ruptured sets of lives is enough. Slam the door tight and don't let another one onto a plane, clutched in foreign arms. Slam it, and clean up your house.
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India demands return of adopted child
22 May 2007
HILVERSUM - An Indian boy that was adopted by a Dutch couple six years ago must return to his country of birth. Indian authorities are demanding that the child undergo a DNA test and be reunited with his birth parents. A police investigation in India reportedly indicates that the child was not voluntarily put up for adoption but stolen and sold to an orphanage.
The television programme Netwerk reported this on Tuesday on the basis of the police reports and investigation in India. The Dutch adoption parents received a letter from the Indian police in February asking them to return the child.
The reports to which Netwerk has gained access show that the boy disappeared from his family's home in the middle of the night in 1999. In 2005 the Indian police arrested a gang of kidnappers who admitted they had stolen the boy and sold him to an orphanage. The child was put up for adoption via an adoption agency but it has now emerged that the release forms regarding his family history were forged, Netwerk reports.
When the biological mother heard that her child was still alive, she said she planned to do everything in her power to get the boy back. "Some people say: your child has a good life there, leave him be. But I am waiting for my child." Last year the mother started legal action to try and get her child back. The court has not yet made a definitive ruling.
The adoptive parents say the situation at hand is terrible, for the biological parents as well. It is unclear whether they plan to give the child back to the biological parents. The Dutch couple have called on the media to leave them alone in the best interests of the child.
[Copyright Expatica News + ANP 2007]http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=40029
In one case, the Irish adoptive family disappeared off the map--took the child and ran. Which was wrong, but I can't say I don't get it. In the other, the police don't know where the adoptive family lives--the proper post-adoption reports were never filed--and so they can only post a public request that the stolen child be returned. Which clearly will not happen.
Three ruptured sets of lives is enough. Slam the door tight and don't let another one onto a plane, clutched in foreign arms. Slam it, and clean up your house.
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India demands return of adopted child
22 May 2007
HILVERSUM - An Indian boy that was adopted by a Dutch couple six years ago must return to his country of birth. Indian authorities are demanding that the child undergo a DNA test and be reunited with his birth parents. A police investigation in India reportedly indicates that the child was not voluntarily put up for adoption but stolen and sold to an orphanage.
The television programme Netwerk reported this on Tuesday on the basis of the police reports and investigation in India. The Dutch adoption parents received a letter from the Indian police in February asking them to return the child.
The reports to which Netwerk has gained access show that the boy disappeared from his family's home in the middle of the night in 1999. In 2005 the Indian police arrested a gang of kidnappers who admitted they had stolen the boy and sold him to an orphanage. The child was put up for adoption via an adoption agency but it has now emerged that the release forms regarding his family history were forged, Netwerk reports.
When the biological mother heard that her child was still alive, she said she planned to do everything in her power to get the boy back. "Some people say: your child has a good life there, leave him be. But I am waiting for my child." Last year the mother started legal action to try and get her child back. The court has not yet made a definitive ruling.
The adoptive parents say the situation at hand is terrible, for the biological parents as well. It is unclear whether they plan to give the child back to the biological parents. The Dutch couple have called on the media to leave them alone in the best interests of the child.
[Copyright Expatica News + ANP 2007]http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=40029
1 comment:
this ALL makes me weepy.
all parties involved suffer, especially those gorgeous, deserving babies.
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