casper said:At least 10,000 refugee children who were not accompanied by their parents disappeared after arriving in Europe, announced today Europol, link:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/30/fears-for-missing-child-refugees
According to a Senate subcommittee testimony last week, nearly 1,500 immigrant children were lost in government arranged foster homes last year, with the suspicion that many of them were kidnapped by human traffickers. ..
Many of the children are still unaccounted for, but some of them who have been found were held captive by human traffickers in terrible conditions.(...)
Acting assistant secretary at HHS, Steven Wagner, told the committee that between October and December of 2017, HHS called 7,635 children that the agency placed with sponsors and they were only able to track down 6,075 of them. At least 28 of them had reportedly run away, five others were deported, 52 were living with someone else and 1,475 were missing.(...)
The number of children in danger could be much larger, considering that since 2013, more than 180,000 unaccompanied immigrant children passed into America, and very few of them had family in the states who they could stay with, so many of them were placed in the care of random foster families who did not have to go through the same types of background checks and scrutiny that foster families usually do.(...)
Along with immigrants and refugees, Native Americans have an especially high risk of becoming victims of human traffickers. As The Free Thought Project reported last year, Native American women and children are disappearing from areas near oil fields, where thousands of workers from around the country live in “man camps.” Investigations have revealed human trafficking to be a factor in many of these instances, but police in native tribes do not have jurisdiction to arrest non-natives, making it difficult to prosecute the human traffickers who are preying on their community.
Sacramento County is investigating nearly 1,200 missing person’s cases.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department has now partnered with local and federal agencies to tie up more than 1,000 cold cases.
“They don’t know what happened to their loved one,” said Deputy Sheriff Paige Kneeland. “And that is something that eats away at them for years.”
On Saturday, the sheriff’s department will partner with several local and national agencies to try to solve cold cases, some dating back to 1944. It’s an event called Missing in CA. It’s the first of its kind to come to Northern California.
“My sister and I always knew that he had died because he would never have just disappeared!” said Kristen Yager Duarte, who lives in Sacramento.
The last night she saw her father, George Steven Yager, was the night of her junior prom. Duarte was just 17 years old. She says her father had mental-health issues and his missing person’s case wasn’t a priority for police.
“For 12 years, it was just a question mark,” she said.
That was until 2009 when she got a call from Kneeland.
“We found your father and we know what happened,” Duarte recalled. “You were right, he was murdered.”
In 2005, Kneeland had two cases: one a John Doe, found burned post-mortem. The other case, for 47-year-old Yager.
“It just so happened I had been reviewing an unidentified remains case that matched that physical description,” Kneeland said.
Duarte provided a DNA sample and Kneeland discovered the two cases were a match.
“To have that finally come to closure is just more than I can say with words,” Duarte said.
But for some families, that closure never comes.
“There’s not a ton of resources invested initially just because there’s no crime scene and there’s no compass to point us in any direction,” Kneeland explained.
Some cases were reported in the ’60s and ’70s, long before national databases like the National Crime Information Center ever existed. Kneeland says details from families like a broken bone or prior surgery are critical.
“Any information that the family can bring that can lend itself to identifying a person,” Kneeland said. “Having that public input can be helpful.”
“No matter what happens, you’ll at least know more,” Duarte said.
He told CBS13 her sister recently had a baby and named her Paige, after the deputy that brought their family so much peace.
Tomorrow’s “Missing in CA” event will be at the Harper Alumni Center at Sacramento State, 6000 College Town Drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration is encouraged but not required.
Pretoria - Decuplets mother Gosiame Sithole gave birth at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital on Monday last week, but the whereabouts and state of her babies remain a mystery.
An investigation by Independent Media, assisted by a private investigator, has uncovered that the woman who made international headlines when she gave birth to 10 children was admitted to the government-owned hospital in Pretoria earlier that day and delivered her babies. It’s unclear what happened to the babies and what their state of health is.
In a statement released on Wednesday, Independent Media, which initiated a private investigation into the birth of the decuplets following denials by government officials, said the story was not fake news but a cover-up of mammoth proportions.
The Pretoria News reported on the birth of the decuplets on Monday last week. Various government officials immediately denied the story, saying the state had no records of such births. They included Government Communications and Information Systems (GCIS) chief executive Phuma Williams; Gauteng government spokesperson Thabo Masebe; Health MEC Nomathemba Mokgethi; and Steve Biko Hospital chief executive Dr Mathabo Mathebula.
However, sources told the Pretoria News the denials were part of a campaign to cover up medical negligence that involved senior politicians and public servants including Premier David Makhura, Mokgethi and Mathebula. They likened it to the Life Esidimeni scandal.
While senior politicians and government officials claimed the story was a hoax, an investigation by Independent Media has uncovered the following:
On Monday June 7, Ms Sithole was admitted to Steve Biko Academic Hospital. She arrived at the hospital shortly after 3pm. She was seen at the maternity ward of the hospital. She delivered 10 babies – seven boys and three girls.
Doctors, who had been expecting eight babies, were surprised by the delivery of 10.
Sithole delivered five babies by natural birth and had to undergo a Caesarean section for the delivery of the other five. The hospital did not have enough functional incubators at the time of Sithole’s birth.
Nurses told Sithole the babies had been taken to the intensive-care unit (ICU). A nurse told Sithole on Tuesday that there were complications with her babies.
Sithole, who was dizzy and still weak, could not fully comprehend the information. She later moved to the mothers’ (or lodge) section of the hospital where parents of stillborn children recuperate. When she regained her composure, she went to the ICU and demanded to see her children.
However, she was denied access and threatened with arrest and referral to a psychiatric hospital.
On Saturday, a staff member called her sister and told her to collect Sithole.
The sister arranged an Uber which took Sithole to her place in Rabie Ridge, Midrand.
The hospital did not have, or put in place, a clear operational plan for Sithole’s birth. The doctors who helped Sithole deliver have gone to ground and have been unreachable since Tuesday.
Nurses and doctors were forced to sign non-disclosure agreements barring them from disclosing information about Sithole’s delivery and the babies.
Steve Biko staff have repeatedly called Sithole since Saturday begging her to return to the hospital as part of a plot to lock her up and paint her as a mental case.
Sources at Steve Biko confirmed there were babies in the ICU named Sithole and that the mother had been in the lodge’s section at Steve Biko, which is only for mothers who have given birth.
Sithole confirmed during an interview this week that she indeed gave birth at Steve Biko.
Approached for comment on Wednesday night, Mokgethi said she was in church but would look at the questions sent and reply to them.
“Dear ma’am. Please contact Gauteng Department of Health, Gauteng Department of Social Development and SAPS,” Mathebula said in a text message.
On Wednesday night, Independent Media released the findings of its investigation into the decuplets matter.
Insisting that the government’s denial was a cover-up of mammoth proportions, the media organisation demanded that the government come clean about Sithole’s babies and their state of health.
“We can confirm that Ms Sithole was transferred to the lodge’s section on Thursday. She was not provided with food, except for bread and tea in the mornings. She was provided with no medical or psychological assistance.
“This information is corroborated by several independent sources, including staff at Steve Biko Academic Hospital. Independent Media will present all such evidence and our records to law enforcement officials if requested to do so.
“Considering our findings, Independent Media calls for an urgent investigation into the actions and statements of the chief executive of Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Dr Mathebula; the Gauteng provincial government and the Gauteng Health MEC, Dr Nomathemba Mokgethi, with respect to the birth of the decuplets. We would like answers from Dr Mathebula, Gauteng Premier Mr David Makhura and Ms Mokgethi,” said Independent Media.
It has slated its competitors and sections of the public for using the story to wage a campaign against it.
“Instead of being a cause for celebration, however, it has resulted in an orchestrated campaign to discredit the story, the mother of the decuplets, Ms Sithole, the Pretoria News editor Piet Rampedi, as well as Independent Media and its chairperson, Dr Iqbal Survé, with claims that the story is ‘fake news’. It is not and we stand by our story.”
Pretoria News
Here is an article from SOTT about woman giving birth to 10 babies.
On 8 June, the Pretoria News broke the story online that Ms Gosiame Sithole had given birth to 10 babies on June 7. Since then, a series of events have unfolded, involving Ms Sithole, me as the editor of Pretoria News and the author of the stories, and my employer Independent Media.
The latest event is the statement issued by the Gauteng government on 23 June in which they informed the public that they have instructed the State Attorney's Office to litigate against me and Independent Media.
It is unusual for the government to litigate against the media. It is an infringement of media freedom, and suggests an attempt to intimidate me and the media in general from publishing the story.
I find it odd that multiple government agencies have a targeted campaign against myself and Independent Media when all they simply need to do is confirm the following: Did Ms Sithole attend any state and private sector hospitals to give birth to 10 babies. If so, which hospital, and where are the babies? Can they confirm if all the decuplets are alive, and if not, how many have survived?
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