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Sisters’ adoptive Oklahoma family reflects
It has cost more than money for Ardee and Penny Tyler to give five Liberian sisters a better life in the United States. It’s cost them their reputations and their privacy, and scattered their family. Would they do it again? Yes, but they’d do it differently. “We would have gotten the right kind of help [...]
ND couple charged with adoption fraud
From the Associated Press: A Grand Forks couple is scheduled for trial June 8 on four federal counts of fraud involving a Texas adoption service and a local welfare agency.Amy Petrick, also known as Amy Galloway, and Jesse Hutchinson could face more than 60 years in prison if convicted. Authorities accuse the couple of being [...]
Adoption activist arrested for illegal re-entry
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Robin Neal Whiteley on a felony illegal re-entry charge over the weekend. Court records filed in his case show 35-year-old Whiteley was caught near Hidalgo on February 18th. Whiteley’s case has been profiled in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and other media outlets as an illustration of a Catch-22 between immigration [...]
Gabriel Johnson’s Family Fears Missing Baby Was Sold in Underground Adoption
Since Feb. 2, McQueary has been retracing a road trip that 8-month-old Gabriel Johnson and his mother, Elizabeth Johnson, took last December from Tempe, Ariz., to San Antonio, Texas – the last place the little boy was seen alive. Elizabeth Johnson, 23, told a TV station she gave the child to strangers in San Antonio, [...]
DCF lawyer: Put gay man’s kids back up for adoption
All along, everyone involved in Martin Gill’s adoption of two foster boys agreed that the best possible home for the children was with Gill and his partner.Everyone, that is, except the lawyers hired by the Department of Children and Families who asked an appeals court to reverse the adoption and “make the children available” for [...]
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