India's shame story

Israeli paedophile adopts girl through surrogate mother

New Delhi (DNA/Manan kumar & Ritika Chopra) : Israeli paedophile, who has served a year-and-a-half in jail for sexually abusing children, managed to adopt a four-year-old girl through an arrangement with a surrogate mother in India. Though it paints an embarrassing picture of the regulation of surrogacy in India, the government is unaware about the development and refused to act till Friday. 

Women and child development minister Krishna Tirath feigned ignorance when dna called her. “I have not seen the story and so I don’t want to comment. You should get in touch with my information officer,” she said. There was no official response from the home ministry either, but officials said the government will not be able to intervene as the child, in all probability, is an Israeli citizen. The onus, therefore, is on Israel to take action against the man.

The case came to light after NGO Israel National Council for the Child (NCC) received a tip-off. Further investigation revealed that the Israeli national is a convicted paedophile.