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Sherin a three year old girl brought to
Texas USA from an Indian orphanage legally adopted by the Mathews a family that had assured Indian and US authorities that little Sherin who aside the stigma of being an Orphan had developmental problems, will get the best parental love and bid poverty bye - bye.
The stats show that little Sherin like most internationally adopted kids will be the envy of most children from her country of origin. A 2007 study of adopted children by HHS revealed that adopted kids are more likely to do well in life at least much better than children who grow up in poverty and squalor, the report identifies a correlation between poverty and mistreatment of children.
There you heard it Sherin Mathews is lucky - well not as lucky as the child Angelina Joli adopted from Cambodia or the kid Madonna adopted from Malawi you might argue but nonetheless lucky right? Unfortunately NO! is the right answer.
After reporting to the Police that Sherin had gone missing on the 7th October 2017, Wesley Mathews, her adoptive father explained that he had 'made' her to stand under a tree that fateful night about a hundred feet from the house as a punitive measure because she would not drink her milk and as he himself added , coyotes had been seen in the area.
The Police dutifully began a weeklong search for Sherin. Meanwhile the biological daughter of the Mathews a four year old was taken from the Mathews home under protective custody.
Finally the search for missing Sherin Mathews paid off when the poor child was found dead in a culvert under a road in the neighborhood.
The story took a fresh twist when Wesley Mathews accompanied by his attorney reported to the Police on Monday 23 October 2017 with a second account of what happened. According to Wesley, on the fateful night he asked her to drink her milk in the garage but she refused later she began to drink and strangely he began to physically assist her to drink eventually she began to choke, cough and her breathing slowed he no longer felt her pulse and concluded that she was dead.
Wesley admitted that he took her body away from the house. He has since been arrested and charged with injury to a child a first degree felony.
This latest case of the mistreatment of a minor brings to the fore the glaring loopholes in the laws and buerocracy of international and domestic adoption. For one the lack of surveillance of the adopted child by the bodies concerned after a court has okayed the adoption to the adoptive parents , leaves much to be desired.
Apart from the usual background checks a Shrink should be enlisted to check the psychological worthiness of potential adoptive parents.- the truth is not everyone can be a good parent as we have seen in the cases of abusive parents globally.
The Russian government banned the adoption of Russian children into the U SA as far back as 2013 as a result of the death of 19 adopted children from Russia to the USA between 1991-2013.
Adoption as a policy is good and benefits the adoptive parents as well as the adopted child and if the child turns out to be another Steve Jobs the whole world benefits. However the system should block leackages that can hand future Sherins into the hands of the Wesley Mathews of this world.
