A man known as ”Superpapa” who says he took advantage of a quirk in German laws to adopt more than 300 children worldwide has been arrested on suspicion of violating laws on child rearing in Paraguay, authorities said Tuesday.
According to the police statement, Hass said he adopted more than 370 children of different ages in countries worldwide, including Russia, Romania, India and Pakistan with the intent of taking them to Germany to collect a government subsidy of €200 (US$260) a month for each under Germany’s child protection laws.
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Tags: superpapa, adoption, children, foster+children, fraud
Yet again, the truth is stranger than fiction.
In the Futurama episode, “The Cyber House Rules,” Bender adopts a mere 12 orphans for the government stipend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyber_House_Rules
This guy makes him look like a piker.
That same episode was the first thing I thought of, too. Life imitates art — or, at least, half-hour animated sci-fi sitcoms.