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MSS says it received about $3,420 last year from Victoria's Australian Support for Intercountry Aid (Children). President Glenys Chandler says she liaised closely with a number of families who adopted from MSS, and dealt with the agency herself, but was unaware of any problems. The Victorian Human Services...
Alarm bells Authorities had another warning in 1999, when MSS' licence was suspended after one of its staff was arrested for handling four babies stolen from a hospital. He passed the children to another adoption agency, Madras Social Service Guild, known as MASOS, which has also sent children to Australia...
In 2001, India's Central Adoption Resource Agency, which is responsible for clearing children for inter-country adoption, inspected MSS' home. It found there was no midwife or nurse present and that medical files were not properly kept. MSS had made little effort to place children with parents in India...
At least two parent support groups in Australia are still collecting money for MSS. As recently as last week, Adoption Support for Families and Children in W.A. was seeking donations on its website to help MSS with sponsorships and to fund its medical clinic. Mrs. Ravindranath says MSS has no...
"Each department needs to contact those families," says ASIAC's Chandler. "If the children get wind that their placement may be in jeopardy it would be very concerning." She says inter-country adoption is "a very splendid thing, and when it runs off the rails it's extremely sad." MSS...