German man to adopt 1000 kids

[- Femme -]

A 1000 kids for revenge on Berlin

KATE CONNOLLY

 

Berlin, May 9: A German man is exploiting a loophole in the law to become the legal father of 1,000 foreign children so they can claim German passports.

 

Jürgen Hass, who lives in Paraguay, says it is a personal “act of revenge†against the state.

 

He has so far adopted 300 children from seven countries and plans to adopt a further 700 by the end of the year. The children he has adopted so far come from Paraguay, Romania, Hungary, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine and India.

 

Under a law on children’s rights dating from 1998, a man can become the legal father of a child as long as the mother gives her permission and there is no record of a birth father.

 

Once adopted, the child can gain a German passport and have access to the welfare state as well as education.

 

Hass, a former insurance salesman who lives in Paraguay on a £700-a-month pension, said he wanted to help the impoverished children to lead better lives, but that his main motivation was to exact revenge on the state.

 

Hass, a former local politician for the Free Democratic party, was sentenced to three years in prison in 1987 for fraud. The 56-year-old claims he was wrongly imprisoned and “treated worse than a dog†while in jail. He still professes his innocence.

 

He described the adoption campaign as his “personal, private revengeâ€.

 

“A family of eight in Paraguay can live off a single German child’s allowance very happily,†he said.

 

It is not clear how many of them are living in Germany.

 

Authorities say they cannot act until the law is changed. They are aware of dozens of other cases in which German men are exploiting the loophole, including a Berliner who every year declares himself the legal father of around 10 children of single mothers from Bosnia and Vietnam.

 

He is alleged to receive £1,026 from middlemen for each child he adopts.

 

Once the children become German citizens their mothers have the chance to secure a residency permit and to claim social welfare payments for themselves and their children. The man is said to have so far cost the state about £345,000.

 

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[nemo]

What a great way to get revenge at someone without violence. This hurts them more and costly than those who try to take the law in their own hands.

[Ariadne]

That's such an awesome thing to do!

when I read the first few line of thsi post I could not stop laughing.

[Animal Farm]

It is a great way to get back at the State, if only we can find a similar non-violent method for warlords, how do we get back at the killers without violence – forgiveness is an option I assume.

[STOIC]

Hey Pal I have a suggestion for you. How about adopting all the children abducted by the Lord’s Resistant Army in Uganda? The LRA is using children to seek to overthrow the Ugandan government. The LRA is desensitizing children to kill. The LRA is abducting thousands and thousands of children from their homes. These children end up intoxicated to kill. I think there is many children around the globe that needs your help.

 

Invisible Children

 

PS It is a soliloquy..

[Guhaad]

^Stoic thanks for bringing this up.

 

when i saw these lines;

The children he has adopted so far come from Paraguay, Romania, Hungary, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine and India.

I noticed that its Africans who are not coming to dinner again, although, I do consider India part of Africa at times.