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mylescorcoran at 11:00am on 15/04/2005![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
leedy has a post about a recent case involving an Irish couple who adopted an Indonesian child, aged two months. Later when the mother became pregnant the couple sent the adopted child back to Indonesia and an orphanage. | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
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I heard that an American couple have come forward offering to adopt the child and get him out of the orphanage. I hope that he finds some sort of stable, loving home.
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Unless the adoption is ruled illegal in the first place that could be hard to arrange.
Wishes for vengeance super-powers again!
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He should be found a new home, in Ireland or another country where a lot of people speak English... and maybe his first set of adoptive parents should be stripped of their Irish citizenship on the grounds that they don't deserve it?
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Despite having done all the paperwork and being legally her parents, the couple then sent her back after only 5 months, this two days *after* they had adopted a second 2 month old little girl; the botched adoption left the girl stateless (ie. a neither Romanian or Canadian citizenship).
Ms Austin, now 22, is suing the Government's of Canada and Ontario (who should never have allowed the adoption to begin with) and her adoptive 'parents'. The reason for her suit is that on her return to Romania she was denied both health care and education by Romania, and it appears that Canada didn't consider her a citizen, either and said that there was nothing that they could do. She was left a person without a country, without rights, for nothing that she did.
http://www.oacas.org/whatsnew/newsstories/05/feb/16adopt.pdf
The adoptee 'parents', who had lived in a bedroom community just outside of Hamilton ON, where I work, are now split up and are living in Italy and the US (the man a cardiac surgeon in Washington state), and have refused to comment on the case, which became a feature CBC documentary in mid February. I didn't see the documentary, but I was appalled when I heard this terrible story.
The young woman's lawsuit is asking for 7 million in compensation for being robbed of the last 14 years of her life. I hope she gets it, as do other horrified Canadians.
http://www.arcweb.ca/en/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2
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