Illegal Adoption in Kerala, India

“The startling findings about the unholy nexus between child welfare committee in Malappuram and a licensed child adoption agency in offering children for adoption to prospective adoptive parents reveal in the illegal practice of giving away children on adoption by evading all adoption laws.”

“There exists an unholy nexus between several such licensed adoption agencies, a section among statutory authorities and hospitals for literally trading children.”

“There are 17 SAAs in the state, of which crime branch probe has been launched against Divine Providence Foundling Home, Rajakkad, Idukki, and Queen Mary Foundling Home, Thrissur for promoting illegal adoption.”

“A police probe into the functioning of the Divine Providence orphanage after finding that 41 children were missing and 29 children were missing.”

” In the latest development, the former chairman of the child welfare committee illegally adopted a child from the Queen Mary Foundling Home.”

Illegal adoption rampant in Kerala
[Times of India 10/7/19]

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