CBI goes after foster parents in child racket-Chennai-Cities-The Times of India

CHENNAI: The CBI Anti-Corruption Bureau in Tamil Nadu, which is investigating a child adoption racket that was busted by the city police in May 2005, will try to contact the foreign foster parents who adopted the children with the help of an illegal agency in Chennai.

According to sources in CBI, three foster families based in the Netherlands, Australia and the US would be contacted. CBI will also review the procedures followed by the foster parents for the adoption.

“The Central Crime Branch of city police had investigated only the local angle. They have handed over the investigation details which prima facie provides evidence against the adoption agency. Now we want to know about the procedures used by the foster parents who adopted children from Chennai,” a senior CBI officer told The Times of India .

The case had originated on the basis of complaints from parents about missing children. One of them, the child of Kathiravel and Nagamani, pavement-dwellers in Pulianthope, had been allegedly kidnapped and sold to a Dutch couple.

Similarly, the four-year-old child of Sylvia, a woman from Otteri, was kidnapped from an auto and sold to a couple in Australia. Another couple from the city had lost their one-and-a-half-year old child, who was traced to the US.

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