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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 8971834" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka's child protection authorities have traced the biological  mother of a six-year-old girl who was suspected to have been sold as an  orphan after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, police said Friday.Staff  at the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) took custody of the  child after neighbours complained that she was a tsunami orphan  illegally brought up by foster parents who were ill-treating her."We  have now found that the child was born two days after the tsunami and  the mother appears to have given the child over to this couple in  Colombo," said NCPA investigator Indrani Abeygunasekara."We know  where the biological mother is living and it is clear that she gave the  child over for adoption, but did not follow the legal procedure."Local  media carry frequent reports of single mothers abandoning newborn  babies to avoid a social stigma attached to children born out of  wedlock.Abeygunasekara said the foster parents and the child were  taken before a judge who found that the allegation of abusing the child  were untrue.The judge ordered the couple to legalise the adoption of the girl.The  NCPA on Thursday appealed for public help to identify the girl's  biological parents after initial claims that she was sold by a hospital  worker soon after the tsunami.Some 30,000 people were killed in  the 2004 tsunami, which devastated much of Sri Lanka's coastline in the  island's worst natural disaster.The tsunami was triggered by an undersea quake that killed more than 220,000 people around the Indian Ocean.The NCPA's figures show 995 Sri Lankan children lost both parents while another 3,409 lost at least one in the disaster.<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j3WatA2eAddk-SlwJ4sTfZHyNSkg?docId=CNG.287f99cf53380cfffea81f8d5de03ae0.8c1" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

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