AT least 30 children brought into Australia for adoption may have been stolen from their parents as part of a child-trafficking network in India. The federal Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, said last night he had asked his department to contact Indian authorities and liaise with the Australian Federal Police to seek more details.
The Queensland couple who adopted her are believed to be devastated at the revelation that she was stolen.
The girl was adopted through the Queensland Department ofFamilies, Youth and Community Care.
The Queensland minister in charge of the Department of Families Youth and Community Care at the time was Anna Bligh, now the Premier.
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Child abuse is endemic and should be stamped out. This investigation in Australia reinforces convictions that everyone involved in child crime, and here I include those politicians who want to remove child protection matters by the reduction of the age of sexual consent, should be given no leniency at all. There can be no mitigation when the damage done to all innocent families is so extensive.
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