it turns out i am not the only one to have visited sakineh's orphanage.ut it was too late. the news he had been adopted without her consent must have been devastating. i wanted to find out how she is coping and decided to track her down. sadly, she is now living in a woman's refuge far from home, having been divorced by her husband. translation: my family and my husband were extremely strict and they separated me from my son. i got the depression and i left my other children. it is now impossible for me to go back to them. i betrayed him. i did not want to abandon my child. i felt like i betrayed that child. i betrayed that kid. she cries. my three other children know that i have not betrayed them because they are old enough, but this child was just a poor, poor kid. it was such a terrible day when i left them. a woman has adopted my child, and has taken him for herself. my baby does not know me but i think about him every day. but i think it is betterfor him to live with the other person now. it is betterfor him. it is horrible to seejovan so upset after

sakineh muhammed ali is the local government official responsible for running this place. the yazidi woman i met over a year ago who was forced to give up her is son who we called "adam". she tells mejovan‘s husband approached and asked her to take the child. sakineh told jovan that she was only giving up her son for a week, knowing full well that her husband would not allow her to return and collect him. this would be the last time that jovan would ever see adam. months later, the orphanage ran into financial difficulties and decided to put some children up for adoption. it turns out i am not the only one to have visited sakineh‘s orphanage. jovan did came back looking for her son but it was too late. the news he had been adopted without her consent must have been devastating. i wanted to find out how she is coping and decided to track her down. sadly, she is now living in a woman's refuge far from home, having been divorced by her husband. translation: my family and my husband were extremely strict and they separated me from my son. i got the depression and i left my oth