Kids in care ‘a billion-dollar business’
Conference in Winnipeg focuses on needs of First Nations children A national advocate for First Nations children wants Manitoba to come clean on what it’s doing with federal child tax credits when kids in the province are put into care. “We’re talking millions and millions of dollars… I don’t know what the exact amount is in Manitoba,” Cindy Blackstock, the …
The Limits of Jurisdiction
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 …
Spanish nuns accused of stealing babies from vulnerable mothers
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 …
After 1950s forced adoption New Yorker is reunited with his Irish mother
Christopher Quirin, 63, was born to a single mother in Ireland in 1950, a time when such a thing was widely considered an unspeakable disgrace. Back then Quirin’s mother was sent by her parents to the now notorious Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, the same mothers and babies home as Philomena Lee. Lee is the woman whose shocking …
