Finding the Lost Boy: Commercial Surrogacy in India (2015) | Foreign Correspondent
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2019
- The extraordinary case of the twin boy left behind in India was first revealed by Foreign Correspondent and ABC News earlier in 2015. But his identity and fate stayed a mystery.
"It's a criminal offence in many places. I think it's an appalling thing." - Australian judge
The decision of the Australian adoptive parents shocked senior Australian judges interviewed by Foreign Correspondent.
"Was the child sold? Was the child left on the street? What has happened to the child?" - Australian judge
"Whether he's been placed in a rich, well to do family where he gets every amenity, we don't know." - Arun Dohle, child protection advocate
Reporter Samantha Hawley teams up with two Indian child protection campaigners as they weave through Delhi's labyrinthine bureaucracy and backstreets on a hunt for the twins' birth records, the boy's adoption papers and details of the surrogate mother and Australian parents.
Hawley reveals how the case worried Australian consular officials in Delhi. Australian High Commission staff tried desperately to persuade the Australian family to take both twins back home.
But Canberra sent approval for citizenship and a single passport to be given to just one child - the girl - despite international commercial surrogacy being outlawed in the Australian parents' home state.
"I would describe it as aiding and abetting the Australian couple abandoning the child." - senior New Delhi lawyer Shekhar Naphade
"We have done everything legal." - Australian father of the boy left behind
In this tragic story about one baby boy who became the by-product of an unruly $500 million industry, two leading judges tell Foreign Correspondent it's now time for the Australian Government to take a lead in reforming the system.
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Theres a special place in hell for these people. Abandoning a child like that and selling him????
How could you leave a child stateless? Not only are you abandoning a child that YOU had brought into the world but you are making it narly impossible for this child to get adopted. People like this are such trash
Wait until that little girl grows up and finds out what her parents did to her twin brother. There will be hell to pay. I hope she can find him. 💔
She will disown her parents for sure
Absolutely so sad
CPTSD symptoms will show up in childhood and adult life. Babies treated as products losing connection with the birth mother will suffer emotionally. Trust me. I am one of those products. Adults cannot disregard the right to identity and roots. Yet this is business as usual.
Make the parents names public - let the little girl know her parents SOLD her twin brother. Then help her find her brother.
"Was the boy healthy?" "Yes!" "So why did they leave him?" This shouldn't be the point at all. He is their son and their daughter is his twin!
They should be charged in India and in Australia.
Disgusting parents abandoning their child and breaking up twins horrible people.
Their only reasoning being "we can't afford it" (but you could afford the whole surrogacy process and travel costs?) and "we already have a boy". It's like they are talking about a car or some other lifestyle choice. Beyond comprehension.
@@annaf3915 yes they are full of shit and made up that story, just because they only wanted a girl as they already had one boy, they are selfish, cruel and horrible people that abandoned their own child, and deprived a twin of her brother. Their actions are deeply immoral heartless and spineless and both of them need to be prosecuted and justice served. Their names should be be shamed all over the world. Children are not commodities.
Typical example of unfit parents who should not even have children to begin with. They are neglectful narcissistic personalities with interest in their own agenda. Wait till the twin sister grows up and finds out what happened to her and her twin brother. If she is a healthy human being after receiving long-term therapy for the trauma this has caused her while growing up around emotionally immature parents, she will leave the narcissistic family system and go no contact. I hope she reunites with her twin brother one day. Honoring the lost connection with her brother will be healing.
I see this as a Human Trafficking opportunity.
🤔 ~ Shame on this reporter and her editors for not naming the parents. In a very similar story you DID name the parents of an Australian couple who left their brain damage daughter in an Ukrainian orphanage. Which is worse, leaving a child that you think is gonna die and that his brain damage so having them will dramatically hurt your lifestyle, or just living a normal child because it’s a slight inconvenience? So why name one parents and not the other?
The twins are the ones paying the highest price for this horrible deed!
Why enter into this process if you can't afford to raise the children you create??
There is literally a documentary about that surrogate mother. ‘Womb for rent’
Sickening.If the boy isn't found.He will probably never know he has a twin sister...Shameful
I just saw another horror surrogacy video from an American couple that went to Ukraine to get their baby. Well one twin boy died at birth and the surviving twin girl was left behind because she was born with disabilities!!! Stil a beautiful child!!! 3 years later stil in limbo in the Ukraine. A child stateless due to the selfish parents(monsters)!!!!
Can someone please update on this if you have any new information of the boy
Selfish self entitled brats, People like these parents should never be allowed to have kids ever or have their children removed from them, because their actions show their selfish wants comes before the children. This happens so often or the biological parents demand termination of multiple pregnancy, because the so called parents only want 1 or a certain gender. Be grateful for the blessing of being able to be a parent, don't take it for granted or abuse it.
Thank to there efforts
Wow !!!!! The parents were actually Indian !!!!!!!!!
Corrupt and immoral people sell their baby boy - and you are surprised they are Indian?
All surrogacy is child trafficking. It should be banned worldwide.
In every video related to india, is it really necessary to show a crowded street.
That lady slating australians but the parents are from india ? They just moved to aus
My gosh. Please if there's any balance in this world, may this child live a good life and find his sister.
They could afford a girl but not twins and they knew the surrogate had twins. ??!!! They should have never left India with one. And when they paid off to take one kid..that's just henious.
Naming the parents will surely find the child. And arrest the parents! I hope you find baby dev.
What sick horrible people leave their baby behind !
This makes me sick to my tummy how can these awful people do this to these little babys its so wrong if i could i would adopt them all and take them all home my heart is bleeding for them
Oh this is just a mess
Sickening
I'm really happy that India has stopped this horrible practice and made it illegal, so that no more cases like this will ever happen again.
Incredible India
ASGAR Q many countries still do surrogacy. India is one of the few countries that no longer allows it.
I would say that this video is clueing that you'd be happiest as to not accept a raise and instead that they can not fire you and to be only laid off only when sick and to live in only an RV motor home and not purchase a car only too work as a driver or delivery and you'd live a lot longer and happier life.
This is because people who put their child into someone else's womb don't have the same attachment to the child as the carrying mom .I am all for surrogacy however surrogate moms should be payed at least 300k not 5 or 6 k .In this case the egg was from a donor that is why the so called mother did not fight for her child .The dad did not fight for his bio child because giving sperms costs nothing to him as long as he doesn't have to raise the child ( same reason why plenty of bio dads easily leave their children that they have not invested in ) .
What kind of sick parents abandon their own son? Specially when his a twin and has a twin sister somewhere. I hope God punishes them for this cruel act poor baby.
Well,THEN WHY NOT CALL THEM OUT SO THE GOVERNMENTS WILL LISTEN!!!THIS WAS YALLS CHANCE TO MAKE A HUG DEAL ABOUT IT AND BRING IT TO THE FOREFRONT,NOW MAKE ANOTHER VIDEO AND CALL THEIR NAMES!!!
Christy Woods
*You are white, you don’t have any culture.*
Christy Woods They don't want to get sued for breech of personal data.
reality check lol where do you think culture came from? Shitting in the rivers you drink from? Having babies with a brother? Or Ghetto life? Murder, mud huts and cannbalism.
Look up Neptunes Lagoon and educate yourself.
reality check to be real though, no one was asked to be born white. “White culture” or lack thereof, is more like a western experiment spearheaded by the new world order
Pause at 8 minutes 26 seconds. READ the letter on the screen....
The parents are indians as well... indian migrants.
ohhh
And that phone call to Australian parents? Just a barrage of negativity to mother..nothing learned from that approach!
For doing this the rest of the people who wanted a child are now banned because of one set of rotten people !
Tagga Engelska NA19GH
Digital India
Disgusting
I'm guessing the family from Australia were India/pakistani or of decent?
Got my answer.
And that's how is happens. Cultural /value differences.
Watch the broadcast they just posted about an American couple doing the exact same thing after commissioning a baby through a surrogate in Ukraine. She was born with a bunch of disabilities so the Americans literally just left her there to be raised in institutions for the rest of her life. The mom is a hollywood film producer and the father is in the film industry as well. Despicable.
@@riverdeep399 plenty of Americans have done the same. Look up Michael etnyre. He and his wife (30 years older!) abandoned their daughter in Ukraine because she was brain damaged at birth.
Surrogacy isn’t a bath thing horrible making money companies inter country shite is the wrong thing! My first died I needed fertility treatment for my second and I wished and hoped for a baby I would have done anything and surrogacy would have been an option.. this bartering shit is the problem. I know two people who have been surrogates they are wives who have had there children who are wishing to give couples the joy they have done which is how it should be not dirt poor women who have no choice but to sell themselves in ANY way they have to.
Better documentaries just convey facts..Let viewer have opinions. Sorry heavy handedness just irked me watching this. Like DUH.
I agree...I kind of feel like they are making a huge deal out of what they really are biased about: surrogacy
If a couple decides to adopt out their child its their choice....
Totally agree!
I haven't finished watching yet but it seems like they when to another country for surrogacy and expected 1 child but found out it was 2 and probably didn't want to do abortion or weren't allowed to so put 1 child up for adoption... the sister and brother in law say the child is with extended family who are well off and care for the boy... he was legally adopted... what is the real concern here? That one person who was far removed from the case said she thought that money had changed hands? I don't understand why people are acting like it's such a tragedy?
The sister and brother in law don't know where the child went, don't know what the adoptive father does for a living or what the Australian father does for a living. All he knew was that the potential adoptive father had enough money to pay the asking price for the baby. Who knows maybe the child was sold on, sold as a slave, sold into prostitution, no-one knows, and this is the point about how this industry can be a conduit for child trafficking with no background checks or assessment of the suitability of the parents who have commissioned the surrogacy. This is a shocking story and it seems that Australian embassy officials were complicit in the disappearance of the boy