How Could You? Hall of Shame-India-Adoptee

This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.

From Delhi, India, a domestic adoptee Nitin Verma , 28, placed with the adoptive family a few days after birth was convicted and given the death penalty for the 2008 killing of his disabled adoptive father, his adoptive mother, and his 6-months-pregnant wife. The reason for the killings was  “for opposing his extramarital affairs with a girl.”

“”The convict (Nitin) is a menace to the society. When he did not spare his own parents and wife and killed them in cold blood, what respect he would show for the lives of others. The convict is like a live bomb, which has the potential of causing a huge catastrophe, if not destroyed at the earliest.

“I am of the opinion that the life imprisonment would be altogether inadequate punishment in this case, having regard to the nature of crime and manner and circumstances in which it was committed,” the judge said.

Refusing to show any leniency to the convict, the judge said, “The present case, in my opinion, amounts to the rarest of rare cases, which shocks the collective conscience of the society, which would definitely expect the court to inflict death sentence upon the convict.”

“There was no justification at all for the convict to commit the grotesque killings. The convict appears to be without any remorse,” the judge said.”

Youth gets death sentence for killing foster parents and wife

[Business Standard 9/4/12]

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