HSE knew of “quasi-illegal deportation and adoption” of children to the USA, Britain, and Australia.

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The revelation is contained in a business plan prepared by principal social worker in the South Lee region, Pat O’Dwyer, in 2011 in preparation for the HSE’s takeover of about 15,500 adoption files from the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Order which ran the Bessborough, Sean Ross Abbey, and Castlepollard Mother and Baby Homes. Mr O’Dwyer …

Fly Away Home

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How does it feel for a child, who already has a family, to be adopted by strangers never to go back home? Here’s the harrowing reality behind the practices of some international adoption agencies. Journee Bradshaw was already 13 and came from a large, middle-class Ethiopian family when she arrived in the US. She thought she was going on a …

‘Child trafficking with help of State’

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Victim of illegal adoption affair wants to go to court By Esther Wemmers Amsterdam – A victim of the major illegal adoption affair of the eighties wants to sue the Dutch State for co-responsibility of child trafficking and allowing couples to change the identity of their illegally adopted children.  Childless Dutch couples avoided the long waiting lists for adoption by …

Chinese Adoptions and Rehoming

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Internet ‘Rehoming’: The Dark Side of International Adoptions They call it “adopting from disruption,” and you can find forums and mailing lists devoted to the topic across the Internet—everywhere from Facebook to until recently, Yahoo Groups. “My husband and I have never actually visited another country to adopt a child. Yet, our family includes Russian, Ethiopian, and Mexican born children,” …

Rehoming: Dan Rather Reports

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“Rehoming” is an underground system that enables adoptive parents to advertise their adopted children on the internet or through informal religious or civic connections to place them with other willing families without legal safeguards or regulations. To many human rights proponents, this underground method of moving children is seen as another form of abandonment and child trafficking. Adoption: What You …