Caribbean Air­lines pi­lot Patrick Borel, his wife Daniel­la Parinel­lo, Span­ish teacher Adri­ana Buen­dia Rag­bir and at­tor­neys Annabelle Sook­lal-Boynes and Ki­jana De­sil­va ap­peared in court yes­ter­day charged with the il­le­gal adop­tion of a Venezue­lan in­fant.

The five were charged sep­a­rate­ly for breach­ing Sec­tion 9:2 of the Adop­tion Act 2000 by tak­ing part in the arrange­ment of the adop­tion of the ba­by some­time be­tween Ju­ly 31 and Sep­tem­ber 30, 2018, al­though they were not mem­bers of the Chil­dren Au­thor­i­ty, the on­ly agency au­tho­rised to mak­e arrange­ments for the adop­tion of chil­dren.

All five plead­ed not guilty to the charge when they stood be­fore Mag­is­trate Adri­an Dar­manie in the Tu­na­puna Third Mag­is­trate’s Court. They were charged by PC Samali George of the Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit.

At­tor­ney Sean Caz­abon said if Borel, who flies the re­gion­al route, was or­dered to sur­ren­der his pass­port he would be un­able to work for the du­ra­tion of the court mat­ter.

The court pros­e­cu­tors agreed to al­low Borel to re­port to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion once every fort­night and pro­vide the court with a copy of his work ros­ter every month.

Caz­abon said Borel, 52, lives at Grand Boule­vard, Mil­len­ni­um Park, Trinci­ty with his wife of 15 years, Parinel­lo. Caz­abon said Borel has a clean crim­i­nal record, is a re­spectable mem­ber of so­ci­ety and co­op­er­at­ed ful­ly with po­lice af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed on Tues­day night. Dar­manie al­lowed Borel to re­main on the bail he was grant­ed while in po­lice cus­tody and ad­journed the mat­ter to Jan­u­ary 16, 2019.

Caz­abon al­so rep­re­sent­ed Parinel­lo, a part time lan­guage tu­tor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ Cen­tre for Lan­guage Learn­ing.

He said Parinel­lo, who is Ital­ian, has per­ma­nent res­i­den­cy in T&T and had nev­er been charged with any crim­i­nal of­fence be­fore. As a con­di­tion of her sta­tion bail con­tin­u­ing, Parinel­lo was or­dered to re­port to the Arou­ca sta­tion once every fort­night.

Parinel­lo’s col­league at the UWI Cen­tre for Lan­guage and Learn­ing, Span­ish tu­tor Adri­ana Buen­dia Rag­bir, was charged for the same of­fence. Her at­tor­ney Sub­has Pan­day asked the court to con­tin­ue the $25,000 sta­tion bail she was grant­ed at the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion af­ter her ar­rest on Wednes­day. He said Rag­bir, a Colom­bian, is mar­ried to a Trinida­di­an and has a clean crim­i­nal record.

Dar­manie or­dered Rag­bir, who lives at La Que­sa Road, Freeport, to re­port to the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion every Fri­day be­tween 6 am and 9 pm.

At­tor­ney Pamela El­der SC rep­re­sent­ed her col­league Annabelle Sook­lal-Boynes, whom she de­scribed as hav­ing an im­pec­ca­ble char­ac­ter. El­der said Sook­lal-Boynes is a moth­er of three who lives at Well­springs Road, Cas­cade. She said her client sur­ren­dered to po­lice on Thurs­day morn­ing af­ter learn­ing a war­rant had been is­sued for her ar­rest.

She asked that Sook­lal-Boynes be grant­ed bail with her ex-hus­band, at­tor­ney Roger Boynes, as sure­ty. Pros­e­cu­tors agreed and Sook­lal-Boynes was grant­ed $65,000 bail.

The sec­ond at­tor­ney charged in the mat­ter, Ki­jana De Sil­va, was rep­re­sent­ed by Kei­th Scot­land. Scot­land told the court De Sil­va lives in San Juan and re­quest­ed the mat­ter be ad­journed for a pe­ri­od longer than the reg­u­lar 28 days. How­ev­er, Dar­manie de­nied this re­quest and af­ter al­low­ing De Sil­va to con­tin­ue on his sta­tion bail ad­journed the mat­ter to Jan­u­ary 16. All five will reap­pear in court that day.