Cases

15 year old Korean adoptee stabbed to death by her brother, Keith Chul Weaver (14), who was adopted from South Korea at 4.5 yrs. Keith killed this parents Dr. R. Clair and Anna May Weaver, then Kim, then raped a visiting relative. He intended to kill himself, but was convince to call police by the rape victim.

10 month old girl died of head injuries inflicted by Doris J. Ravenscraft, her adoptive mother to be. Rachel, who had been in the home 8 months, had broken bones in her skull, a forearm and both lower legs. Mr. Ravenscraft was not charged.

 

As a 3-month-old baby Kairi Abha Shepherd was adopted from India by a Utah woman, by the name of Erlene Shepherd, who died of breast cancer before she she could file citizenship papers, in 1991.

In 2003 Kairi got caught forging checks to pay for her meth habit and as a result now faces deportation to India due to the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.

Kairi suffers from Multiple Sclerosis and is currently detained by Homeland Security, sometimes allowed to take her MS medication, sometimes not.

Twice, immigration Judge William Nixon has dismissed the government's Notice to Appear against her - once because everyone involved in the case, including prosecutors, assumed Kairi's legal adoption would grant her citizenship, and a second time because her volunteer attorney Alan Smith argued the government could not refile its Notice to Appear to try to change Nixon's original ruling. Undeterred, local ICE prosecutors have appealed to the agency's Board of Immigration Appeals.

Meantime, Kairi has been charged with violating her probation for the original forgery charge. She didn't notify her probation officer she was being held all those months in jail by Immigration. A hearing is scheduled for Aug. 4.

Placement agency:  Americans for International Aid and Adoption (AIAA)

Status: In Dentention

12 adopted, 10 foster,and 5 natural children removed from Sherry Scott's home after Oregon Children's Services Division alleges sanitation problems and sexual abuse between children. Carl had left the home the previous fall. Most of the children were physically or mentally disabled. Many of the children were in the home under private arrangements between parents. Sherry also provided temporary respite care.

Sherry admitted to neglect.

In 1991, Alexandra Austin was nine years old when an Ontario couple, Joseph Austin and Silvana Marisa Di Giacomo, convinced her mother to let them adopt her and take her to Canada, even though she was not up for adoption.  After five months,  all the papeworks making the Austins legal parents were completed, but the Austins sent her back alone to Romania, two days after they adopted a Romanian baby girl.

Alexandra found herself back with her surprised mother, but in legal limbo and stateless. Canada had accepted her as a landed immigrant when the adoption was approved. But as she left the country before her adoptive parents filed a citizenship application, she never became Canadian.  The Austins had never cancelled the adoption and the child's documents had been altered, as is customary in such cases, to show her birthplace as Canada. As a result, Romanian authorities refused to recognize her and she was denied access to schooling and health care and to use her original name, and her mother had no parental rights or benefits.

In 2005, Alexandra has launched a $7 million lawsuit against her adoptive parents.

The government of Canada granted Alexandra and her now 2 children Canadian citizenship, and she returned to Canada with them in June 2009. 
A settlement was reached with the adoptive parents in 2010. 

Sent by her adoptive mother to the Attachment Center at Evergreen (ACE), Andrea H. Swenson was put through the usual “two-week intensive,” but then diagnosed as so “damaged” that she had to stay on for periodic treatments at ACE, and live with AT-trained therapeutic foster parents (TFPs), at a cost to the family’s insurance company of $3,500 a week. Supposedly, Andrea made slow progress in the arrangement, until the insurance payments ran out. Whereupon, Watkins and the TFPs began pressuring the adoptive family to allow the TFPs to adopt her — and thereby get new insurance coverage. (Connell Watkins was clinical director at ACE)

One day in November 1990, Andrea returned to her foster home from school and reported to the TFPs that she had been sexually molested at school, which they regarded as typical “Attachment Disorder” behavior — false, manipulative, and attention-getting.

The next day, Andrea took an overdose of aspirin. She was in convulsions and delirious the next morning, but the TFPs did not attend her, and instead went bowling that afternoon. While they were gone, a relative visited the house and found Andrea dead in a hallway.

A married couple adopted two children, a boy and a girl, from Peru in October 1990 when both children were 3 months old. The father molested the girl during their 4 month stay in Peru and for at least 18 more months in the United States. The father had molested before as a teenager, similarly violating his then-3-year-old cousin.

After confessing to his clergyman in 1992, the father was charged and pleaded guilty to two counts of sodomy. The court gave him a suspended sentence, placed him on five years' probation and ordered mandatory counseling. The parents divorced.

Articles about adoption trafficking in Cambodia. Facilitators listed include baby finders and others involved in the child location process.
See also Vietnamese and Cambodian infants trafficked to China case

Lauryn Galindo, provided approximately 700 Cambodian children to American couples for adoption. The only problem is that some of the children were not orphans; many of them had been virtually stolen from their parents. See also:
Camryn Mosley case
Srey Lieu and Srey Mom, Kim Sophoan's daughters case
Main Dim's son

Hundreds of children were stolen from dissidents and placed with military families and others - some internationally - during the Military junta of the 1970's and 1980's.