Adoptive mum wins in adoption fracas

The appeal arose out of a dispute over parental rights between the Social Welfare Department of the Francistown City Council (FCC) and the birth mother of an infant, which had been given up for adoption shortly after its birth.

Giving a genesis of the civil application recently, Judge President of the Court of Appeal (CoA) Ian Kirby and acting judges of the CoA, Isaac Lesetedi and Monametsi Gaongalelwe, said the girl child and the birth mother, known only as Ms X , and the adoptive mother only known as Ms Y, will not be identified for ethical reasons.