How Could You? Hall of Shame-Belgium-Senechal Laurence

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From Belgium, google-translated from RDC : 6 mois de prison contre une Belge qui a tenté de faire voyager un enfant adopté [Radio Okapi 4/15/14],adoptive parent Senechal Laurence “a Belgian national , was sentenced to six months of penal servitude and payment of 300,000 Congolese francs ( about 325 U.S. dollars) for wrongful removal of a child. The Magistrates’ Court Kinshasa -Gombe delivered the verdict Monday, April 14 after a trial in flagrante delicto . Two officers of the Directorate General of migration are also convicted in this case. They scoop each of three months in prison for complicity.

The magistrate criticized enacting his attempt to illegally travel a minor adopted child , in violation of Congolese law which pauses adoptions .

Ms. Senechal was arrested last Saturday at Ndjili International Airport while trying to board a plane for Belgium in the company of a 4 year old girl she had adopted.

The Congolese government has suspended until further notice , the adoptions of children in DRC on suspicion of human trafficking from the country.

According to the prosecution , the accused confessed to corrupt agents of service migration to escape the ban.

Directorate General of Migration ( DGM) is obliged to uphold the suspension of international adoptions of Congolese children by foreigners for a period of twelve months from September 25, 2013 .

According to the director general of the service of the state, the government has received information on adoptions seconds or drafts of adopted children in the DRC. Some children have been abandoned by their adoptive parents or ” sold ” to other people, he assured.”

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