Indian family desperately want to see their stolen daughter again, maybe for the last time. Stolen from India and adopted to Australia.

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Fatima and Salya are the parents of four children.  In 1998,  one of them, then two-year-old was kidnapped then sold to a corrupt adoption agency that  forged  records to make it appear she had been abandoned. She was adopted by  a family in Queensland, Australia. Indian police uncovered the scam in 2005 and arrested the child-stealers who  provided details of …

Adoption needs overhaul or abandoning say people adopted as children

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LOUISE MILLIGAN: This is what has angered many adult adoptees: Tony Abbott with actor and adoptive parent Deborra-Lee Furness promoting fast-tracking inter-country adoption. Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: The benefits of inter-country adoption seem obvious when a child from the developing world is given a chance at a better life. It’s had widespread celebrity endorsement of course, with people like Angelina …

Your child is missing, would you want their adoption to be easier?

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“Parents are targeted by recruiters and children are bought or stolen or sold.” ‘Millions of children in overseas orphanages … would dearly love to have parents’, claims Tony Abbott, and his government is making intercountry adoption easier. Screenshot/Intercountry Adoption Australia Imagine for one moment your child went missing. It’s a common enough event worldwide for today, May 25, to be …