Mexicali couple return adopted daughter to shelter

MEXICALI, B.C. (KYMA, KECY)-A same-sex couple in Mexicali returns their nine-year-old adopted daughter to the National System for Integral Family Development (DIF).

After 6 months of trying to adopt a child, Martha and Bertha became the first same-sex couple in Mexicali to adopt a child.

However, the child was returned to the state DIF without any reasons being disclosed by the party of authority.

Last October, the couple managed to finalize the adoption after more than a year of completing the procedure and becoming the first same-sex couple in Mexicali and Baja California to achieve the adoption of a minor by the DIF.

The general director of the state DIF, Blanca Esthela Fabela, reported that the minor is in good health and the case is being investigated by the institution.

The minor was returned on April 30, on Children's Day in Mexico.

The state official reported that so far this year there have been two returns of minors to the DIF.

She says that from 2017 to this date, there was 12 revocation of adoptions.

She stressed that most of the returns occurred in the last administration, so an investigation was opened to determine whether the system failed the children or the returns were due to the decisions of the families adopted.

Fabela reiterates that the most important thing for DIF is the integrity of the minor and to avoid suffering as little as possible since it is very traumatic for the adopted child to be left without a family again.

She assures that the minor is in perfect condition and is happy to have returned to the DIF shelter.

As of today, Baja California DIF has 113 children who are waiting to be adopted by a family.