2023-07-18 04:00:00
False identities, children torn from their biological families and wrongly qualified as orphans, psychological violence… While the word is freed among adopted children, who have become adults in search of their origins, the Belgian government is slow to recognize their status as victims . Article reserved for subscribers Journalist in the Society service By Charlotte Hutin Published on 07/18/2023 at 06:00 Reading time: 9 min
In the hands of An Sheela Jacobs, the photo of a chubby baby with dark skin carried by one of the sisters of the Missionaries of Charity orphanage in Kolkata (India). This little girl, more or less 11 months old, is holding an A4 sheet with a first name written in capital letters: Charmain. A name to which An Sheela never felt “connected”, but which she thought was her name from birth until the age of 38. “During a second trip to India, I discovered that the data, which appear on the official documents of my adoption and which were accepted by the judge, are false. I learn that the first name given by my biological parents is Sheela. So I decided to call myself An Sheela. An being the first name given to me by my adoptive parents. »
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