Word: ravindranath
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...unaware of any problems. The Victorian Human Services Department is aware of two adoptions through MSS, but a spokesman says it had received "no approaches about the adoptions from India." One of the adopting families has told TIME that their two children were personally delivered to Australia by Dinesh Ravindranath, son of MSS's principals. "We would definitely like to find out what has happened," says the mother. "You are telling us more than we have ever been told." MSS records indicate the children were transferred from the Crying Children's Adoption Agency; it claims their mother surrendered the pair...
...According to court documents, the group confessed to being part of a gang that stole children and sold them to MSS for 10,000 rupees ($280) each. Manoharan was a former employee of MSS, and eventually the agency's owners, P. V. Ravindranath and his wife Vatsala, were arrested. Officers raided the premises and found the files of 120 children who had been sent overseas for adoption, including at least 13 dispatched to Australia. The pictures were then compared with those on missing-children reports in local police stations...
...Zabeen's was processed. Five years earlier, a Western Australian family had their MSS adoption of a five-year-old girl canceled after an Indian court found the orphanage was lying when it said she had been abandoned. In reality, she'd been claimed by her uncle. Orphanage director Ravindranath told authorities the child was hallucinating when she insisted she had a family...
...director Ravindranath died in 2006, but his wife Vatsala, who was the organization's president, last week denied all charges, saying MSS had no idea the children were stolen. "I'm not handling the surrender. I don't remember it," says the grandmother, who must report daily to police in Chennai as part of her bail conditions. "I trusted [my staff] because I asked them, If there is anything, please tell me. They are promising on the heads of their children...
...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 medical clinic. Documents seen by TIME indicate that ASFC last year paid nearly $7,000 to MSS. The group launched an investigation into the issue this week after being contacted by TIME; president Khris Ryan-Wilson says it has been donating sponsorships, but there has been no suggestion they were...
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