Innocence on SALE,Poor Indian children are being freely traded across the globe. A merciless adoption mafia's overdrive leaves authorities back home clueless even as Dutch Parliament initiates probe after a child from Tamil Nadu reaches Holland.

Innocence on SALE-Poor Indian children are being freely traded across the globe.
A merciless adoption mafia's overdrive leaves authorities back home clueless even as Dutch Parliament initiates probe after a child from Tamil Nadu reaches Holland.

Geetha Devarajan


The recent judgment of the Madras High Court directing the CBI to investigate into the kidnapping of three children for inter- country adoptions (ICA) once again brings to light the breakdown of legal mechanism. This coupled with virtually no supervision of ICA by the government and its agencies leading to trafficking of children in the name of ICA.In May 2005, the Tamil Nadu police discovered a trafficking racket involving individuals and agencies at various levels. These traffickers target street children, or kids from poor families and those in maternity wards of government hospitals, kidnap them and sell them to so-called adoption agencies for amount ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 25,000 per child. According to the newspaper reports, these trafficking mafia have allegedly sold 350 children to the Malaysian Social Service Society, an agency involved in adoption, for over seven years.Salya lost his four-year-old daughter — kidnapped by a gang that came by autorickshaw — while she was playing on the street. Kathirvelu lost his one-year-old son, who was kidnapped while they were sleeping on the pavement. Both the families registered complaints with the local police. An FIR........





Innocence on SALE,Poor Indian children are being freely traded across the globe. A merciless adoption mafia's overdrive leaves authorities back home clueless even as Dutch Parliament initiates probe after a child from Tamil Nadu reaches Holland.