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Anonymous ID: ffec9d July 31, 2019, 5:08 a.m. No.7274651   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4703

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/17/629681931/late-mother-teresas-order-investigated-for-child-trafficking-in-india

 

Late Mother Teresa's Order Investigated For Child Trafficking In India

 

India has ordered its state governments to inspect child care facilities run by the Missionaries of Charity — the Roman Catholic order founded by Mother Teresa — after arrests of a nun and a worker accused of baby trafficking.

 

Earlier this month, Indian authorities shut down a shelter home for pregnant, unmarried women run by the order in Ranchi, a city in the eastern state of Jharkhand, after discovering that four infants had been sold, including a 6-month-old boy who changed hands for 50,000 rupees ($730).

 

A nun, identified as Sister Koncilia, and a staff member, Anima Indwar, were arrested in connection with trafficking. According to The Times of India, Indwar confessed to selling the children.

 

At the time of the arrests, a dozen pregnant women were living at the shelter, according to Catholic News Agency.

 

CNA reports that one couple reportedly paid Indwar 120,000 rupees ($1,760) in exchange for a child, but that she later took the child back without returning the money. The couple then tipped off police, according to CNA.

 

India's NDTV cites an unnamed police source as saying all four babies were sold within the past year.

 

The Times reported on Monday that the last of the four, the 6-month-old boy, had been located and recovered. The newspaper said he was bought by a couple living near Ranchi.

 

"We are getting many leads, but we cannot divulge them as of now," Ranchi Superintendent of Police Anish Gupta was quoted by the Times as saying.

 

"We are working on verifying them," Gupta said.

 

In a statement on Monday, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said she had instructed states "to get child care homes run by Missionaries of Charity all over the country inspected immediately."

 

Gandhi's ministry said that under India's Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, shelters dealing with adoption must register with the Central Adoption Resource Authority. However, it said some 4,000 institutions have yet to comply more than two years after the law went into effect.

Anonymous ID: ffec9d July 31, 2019, 5:12 a.m. No.7274680   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://abcnews.go.com/International/disappearance-italian-girl-emanuela-orlandi-remains-unsolved-bones/story?id=64615310

 

Disappearance of Italian girl Emanuela Orlandi remains unsolved after bones exhumed from Vatican cemetery yields no clues

 

A scientific analysis of 24 bags of bones exhumed from an ancient Vatican cemetery determined they are too old to be an Italian high school girl who vanished from a street in Rome 36 years ago, according to officials at the Holy See.

 

Acting on a bizarre anonymous tip to search for the remains of Emanuela Orlandi under the statue of an angel pointing to a grave in the tiny Teutonic College cemetery inside the Vatican walls, authorities pried open the tombs of two 19th German princesses on July 11 only to deepen the mystery of the girl's disappearance and unearth a new conundrum: the tombs were both empty.

 

But the search of the graveyard led forensic experts to the discovery of a hidden ossuary, or a container of bones under a stone slab beneath the college, which was opened on July 20.

 

A team led by renowned forensic anthropologist Giovanni Arcudi examined the several hundred partially intact bone structures and thousands of bone fragments, but the results of the "in-depth morphological analysis" showed the remains date back to the 1800s and, therefore, could not be those belonging to Emanuela, according to a statement released by the Vatican.

 

Emanuela, a resident of Vatican City and the daughter of a Vatican employee, vanished from a street in Rome on June 22, 1983.

 

"This refutes any connection with the painful disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi," the statement from the Vatican reads.

 

Emanuela's family had been hopeful that the search of the cemetery would yield the closure they've long sought. Orlandi's sister, Federica, represented her family along with their lawyer when the bones were exhumed. A forensic expert hired by the family observed the examination of the bones by Arcudi and his team, Vatican officials said.