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From the 1960s to the ’80s, some 20,000 Aboriginal children were removed from their homes and placed with non-Native families. Now adults, many want redress for the loss of cultural identity. By Anne Bokma Sally Susan Mathias was four years old in 1967 when child welfare services removed her and her six-year-old sister, Doris Lynn, from their home, part of …
Purchased in Brazil and raised in France by an adoptive family, Kharla battled to trace her origins. The case of Zoé’s Ark, tried in mid-February, reminds her how French law does not care. By Kharla Livingston-Lorrenzo, documentary film-maker, February 2014. On Friday February 14 [2014], the deliberation of the case known as “Zoe’s Ark” will be released (Eric Breteau and his colleague Emilie …
It’s unclear how the two-year-old broke her femur, Dr. Napoleon Castillo Molinedo told me. The Guatemalan pediatrician regularly saw the child, identified as “Karen Abigail Lopéz García” in his office records, for check-up appointments and vaccinations. Firing up a weary PC, the doctor retrieved Karen’s old records, printing out a list: ten visits in the first seven months of 2007 …
A Franciscan convent in northern Spain is being investigated for selling babies Two Spanish nuns are being investigated under suspicion of stealing 13 babies from mothers who were forced to give them up for adoption. According to a report in The Times, Sisters Carmen Longarela Latas, 82, and Carmen Vázquez Lamela, 88, are being investigated by a court on suspicion …
