{"id":3515,"date":"2013-02-12T11:53:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2013-03-25T11:54:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T11:54:25","slug":"indian-born-german-reaches-mangalore-in-search-of-her-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/indian-born-german-reaches-mangalore-in-search-of-her-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Born German Reaches Mangalore in Search of her Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.daijiworld.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mangalore, Feb 12 2013<\/p>\n

Maria Chaya Schupp, who was given for adoption to a German couple in 1981 has
\nreturned to Mangalore to track down her biological\u00a0mother.<\/p>\n

With the adoption agency, Nirmala Social Welfare Centre at Ullal
\nrejecting her request to access records on her mother, a dejected Maria
\nsought the help of the media on Saturday.<\/p>\n

In 1981 when Chaya was six she was given in adoption to a Germany-based
\ncouple Wolfgang Schupp and Ingid Schupp through a Carla Wiedeking who ran an
\nadoption agency Pro Infante in Germany.<\/p>\n

Chaya, now aged 30 is on a mission to trace her mother. “Non-availability of
\na written consent from mother and missing deed of relinquishment leads to
\nthe conclusion that I have been kidnapped from my mother,” Chaya accused,
\nwho has memories of living together near Town Hall while her single mother
\nworked in a ‘Dhanda business’.<\/p>\n

“I remember my mother treating me well in spite of difficult circumstances
\nand have good reasons to believe that she wanted a good education and future
\nfor me,” Chaya asserts. However, I want to ask her why she gave me in the
\nhands of the Nirmala Cente,” said Chaya who is now employed as a social
\nworker in Germany and has been camping in the city since January trying to
\nunearth information about her mother from different quarters.<\/p>\n

Chaya along with her friend Arun Dhole met the Ullal police, who also failed
\nto make available the records from Nirmala Social Welfare Centre.<\/p>\n

Desperately searching for her mother, Chaya has also filed a complaint with
\nthe Child Welfare Committee alleging that the centre’s refusal to show her
\nrecords aroused suspicion that she may have been kidnapped.
\n“We will show records only on directions of court, said Nirmala Social
\nWelfare Centre secretary Sister Lucy D’Souza. Further, K P Vasudeva Rao of
\nthe District Adoptive Parents Association has also advised them to place a
\nwrit petition in the High Court as the adoption agency is not co-operative.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know what I will do after I meet my mother, but first thing is I
\nwant to meet her”. Chaya believes that her mother is still alive as she
\nrecalls that her ‘amma’ may have been 20-25 when she last saw her.
\nFrustrated over the attitude of centre authorities, she has alleged that
\nthey (Nirmala Social Service Centre) may have been indulged in child
\ntrafficking.<\/p>\n

Chaya who expressed that she may have to face many more hurdles until she
\nfinally finds her way to her mother, is determined to keep the search
\nprogressing.<\/p>\n

 
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Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.daijiworld.com Mangalore, Feb 12 2013 Maria Chaya Schupp, who was given for adoption to a German couple in 1981 has returned to Mangalore to track down her biological\u00a0mother. With the adoption agency, Nirmala Social Welfare Centre at Ullal rejecting her request to access records on her mother, a dejected Maria sought the help of the… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}