Couple ordered to pay maintenance for abandoned child Tristan

A four-year-old Indonesian child abandoned by his adoptive parents is to receive monthly maintenance payments from them and compensation of €45,000, it emerged today.

Tristan Dowse was adopted in 2001 at the age of two months by Joe Dowse, an accountant from Wicklow, and his Azerbaijan-born wife. The couple returned the boy to an orphanage in Jakarta two years later on the grounds that the adoption was not working out.