This last week over at Adoption Options, I wrote an aritcle about illegal adoptions. Over the course of a couple of comments, Julie and I discussed that while illegal adoptions were rare, they did happen.
There are safe guards in place to help prevent illegal adoptions, but it never ceases to amaze me the great lengths greedy people go to, as well as how dumb they can be.
Case in point, these women have been arrested for alleged baby buying.
These women were either total idiots or thought they could pull one over on an uneducated young girl.
While reporters never share all the facts, and many others like to twist the facts, this appears to be a clear cut case of kidnapping. I don't care what the women's lawyer says. You can't just walk up to a person now days and tell them to sign a piece of paper terminating their parental rights and then walk off with their child. Only a judge can terminate a parents rights, and one isn't likely to do so without having knowledge of the parents.
I'm half in wonder if the lawyer these women retained was in cahoots with them. Any attorney would know that you have to have both parents rights terminated, before a child can be adopted. While it is possible that the girl didn't know who the father was, laws today say you have to name someone as the father whether they are or not.
I'm not favoring this young mother, she claims she was offered money and she "was tempted to take it but ultimately changed her mind." Granted, I don't live in poverty, as well as that fact that I am older so hopefully wiser, but being tempted to sell one of my children is not anything I have ever been, nor could I imagine myself to be.
There's a lot more I could say about this, but in interest of a shorter post, I'll let you think things out for yourself.
Share your thoughts and questions with the rest of us though! I'll be updating this story for you.
A sagerat salute to tn3jcarter who e-mailed me the tip.
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Jun. 3, 2006
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