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...identity Police say Zabeen was given a new name and biography and, together with a purported sibling, adopted to an Australian couple through the Queensland Department of Families, Youth and Community Care. The sibling is also listed as stolen, from a different family. Queensland's Child Safety Minister Margaret Keech says the allegations are "very concerning," and promises that Adoption Services Queensland "will work very closely with federal and state agencies to investigate these claims." MSS documents sighted by TIME reveal that Zabeen was one of 13 children sent to Australia by the agency; it may also have passed stolen...
...TIME investigation of Zabeen's case and other Indian adoptions reveals alarming procedural flaws. While Australian authorities often took months to vet prospective adoptive parents, monitoring everything from their weight to their fertility, they continued to deal with dubious Indian agencies that had repeatedly been associated with illegal practices, including child stealing. In the Netherlands, which received about 50 MSS children, the government has implemented three inquiries into the adoptions and tightened procedures as a result...
...India-based human-rights lawyer D. Geetha represents parents whose children were adopted overseas by MSS and other agencies. She estimates that at least 30 of the nearly 400 Indian children brought into Australia in the last 10 to 15 years were trafficked. "The Australian government needs to appoint some kind of investigation about all the children who came through this agency; look at their background, look into their documents," she says. "These children are going to want to find their parents. The communication is being lost...
...Queensland authorities and the couple who adopted Zabeen. CBI sources tell TIME the investigation in Australia will also attempt to discover how much money was paid to MSS: kidnapping a minor is seen as a far more serious crime when the perpetrators profit from it. The CBI believes Australian parents were tricked by MSS and will face no charges over their adoptions, but insists that the biological parents should be allowed to see their children again in India. "When she knows that she has her parents here, I'm sure that she will come looking for us," says Fatima...
...Jazz's Deron Williams nailed a three pointer at the buzzer to end the first half with the score at 55-43 and give the U.S. some much needed breathing room. Team USA had led by just one at the end of the first quarter, and the quick silver Australian point guard Patrick Mills - "an NBA player for sure," said the admiring U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski afterwards - was giving them cause for concern, and ended up with 20 points...