{"id":4123,"date":"2013-12-06T13:36:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2013-12-06T13:36:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:36:32","slug":"court-upholds-suspended-jail-terms-for-illegal-baby-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/court-upholds-suspended-jail-terms-for-illegal-baby-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Court upholds suspended jail terms for illegal baby adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatica.com\/nl\/news\/dutch-news\/Court-upholds-suspended-jail-terms-for-illegal-baby-adoption_280270.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.expatica.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>6 December 2013<\/p>\n<p>The appeal court in the Belgian city of Ghent has given suspended jail terms to a Dutch couple involved in an illegal adoption, according to Belgian media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch couple were given eight months suspended jail terms for buying the baby, known as Donna, in a complicated law suit involving cross-border surrogacy and illegal adoption.<br \/>\nBaby Donna was born in February 2005 in Belgium via a surrogate on behalf of a Belgian couple where the wife was infertile. However, instead of handing the baby over to this couple as agreed, the surrogate mother sold the baby to a Dutch couple in Leusden for \u20ac15,000.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Later, the biological father tried to get the child back, but the Dutch courts ruled she should stay with the Dutch couple because they had developed a relationship with her.<br \/>\nThe Dutch prosecution service also ruled in 2008 that the Dutch couple could not be prosecuted for illegal adoption.<\/p>\n<p>The surrogate mother was given a one-year suspended jail sentence and her partner was fined \u20ac1,650 after the court said they had tried to sell the baby &#8216;to the highest bidder&#8217;, Belgian media reported<br \/>\nThe court also said the Dutch couple were aware the Belgian couple wanted to keep the baby and the fact the child, now nearly nine, is growing up in a loving environment is no reason they should be found not guilty. The sentences are light because of the age of the case, the court said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.expatica.com 6 December 2013 The appeal court in the Belgian city of Ghent has given suspended jail terms to a Dutch couple involved in an illegal adoption, according to Belgian media reports. The Dutch couple were given eight months suspended jail terms for buying the baby, known as Donna, in a complicated law suit involving&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/court-upholds-suspended-jail-terms-for-illegal-baby-adoption\/\" title=\"Read Court upholds suspended jail terms for illegal baby adoption\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123"}],"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=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4125,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions\/4125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}