{"id":2012,"date":"2008-09-03T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T17:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2011-03-09T17:57:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T17:57:43","slug":"birth-parents-want-to-see-trafficked-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/birth-parents-want-to-see-trafficked-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth parents want to see &#8218;trafficked&#8216; child"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,24284518-5006786,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">By Sean Parnell | <em><em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">September 03, 2008<\/span><\/em><\/em> <\/span><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Girl allegedly stolen by child traffickers <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Adopted by Queensland couple <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Birth parents now want to see her <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">THE Indian birth parents of a nine-year-old girl allegedly stolen by child-traffickers before being adopted by an unwitting Queensland couple have now asked to see her.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seven years after the girl was allegedly sold to an Indian adoption agency, a lawyer for the birth parents has contacted Queensland&#8217;s Department of Child Safety asking for help to resolve the case.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"><a onclick=\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/em> obtained a copy of the letter yesterday as federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland promised tougher scrutiny on inter-country adoptions and revealed other applications had been frozen pending further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The letter states that the birth parents want to see the girl, in Australia or India, to bring an end to their &#8222;emotional pain&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">&#8222;My clients&#8216; child was stolen by anti-social elements, who had kidnapped her in a running vehicle, when she was playing on the road, in front of (her mother) Fathima&#8217;s eyes,&#8220; the letter states. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">&#8222;Since then, Fathima&#8217;s had lost her peace (sic) and looking forward to see her child some day. My clients came to know from the local police that their child is placed in adoption to a couple at Queensland, Australia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">&#8222;My clients are eager to know about the wellbeing of their child, to have one look at the child. It has been explained to my clients, that she will not be speaking their language. But still they would like to see that their child is fine and is being taken care by the adoptive parents.&#8220; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">The adoptive parents could not be contacted for comment yesterday, but they are understood to have requested privacy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">It was unclear last night whether the department had received the letter. <\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Australian\u00a0 By Sean Parnell | September 03, 2008 Girl allegedly stolen by child traffickers Adopted by Queensland couple Birth parents now want to see her THE Indian birth parents of a nine-year-old girl allegedly stolen by child-traffickers before being adopted by an unwitting Queensland couple have now asked to see her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}