Tamil Nadu govt to help aunt bring back 2-year-old from US foster care

The state government has assured to provide all the necessary help to the family of a two-year-old body, who lost his parents in the US, in bringing him back to Tamil Nadu.
Non-Resident Tamils’ Welfare Board chairperson Karthikeya Sivasenapathy (Photo | Website)
Non-Resident Tamils’ Welfare Board chairperson Karthikeya Sivasenapathy (Photo | Website)

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government has assured all necessary help to the family of a two-year-old boy, who lost his parents in the United States, in uniting him with his Grandparents. His parents, who hail from Tamil Nādu, died last year.

Non-Resident Tamils Welfare Board Chairman Karthikeya Sivasenapathy, who is on a visit to the US, met the consulate officials and volunteers working on the case and the maternal grandmother and maternal aunt to help the family get full custody of the kid.

According to the sources, his parents died in their house in Mississippi in May last year. Following this, a neighbour who offered temporary care for the kid announced in GOFUNDME that the child is available for adoption without the family's consent and that message seeking adoptive parents went viral in Social Media in the US. A non-Tamil-speaking family approached the court and offered to provide care for the child. When the aunt arrived in the US to bring back the kid, the mentioned family from a different state had obtained temporary placement of the child. While the aunt is seeking to bring the boy back to Tamil Nadu, the family having the temporary placement of the child wants to adopt him leading to the custody battle between the two families.

Karthikeya Sivasenapathy on his social media posts had said that based on the instructions from Chief Minister MK Stalin and Minister for State Minorities Welfare and Non-Residents Tamil Welfare Gingee KS Masthan, efforts are on to help the aunt to bring the kid back to Tamil Nadu.
 

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