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abuse case
The assumption behind child-placement is that the safety and living conditions of a child improve. These cases demonstrate that this assumption is often invalid.
child trafficking case
There is often a fine line between adoption and child trafficking. In many cases this line is being crossed.
coerced adoption case
Adoption is assumed to be the result of a choice made by the parents of the child. These cases demonstrate women are pressured to give up their children.
deportation case
Adoptions before 1997, didn't automatically lead to naturalization. As result, people adopted from outside the outside US that ran into problems with the justice system face deportation to their country of birth.
disrupted placement case
Although the adoptive family is called the "forever family" by the adoption industry, adoptions can end in disruption. These cases demonstrate that the "forever family" is sometimes only temporary
father's rights violation case
Adoption requires the consent of both biological parents. These cases demonstrate that the rights of fathers in adoption cases are being violated.
wrongful medication case
Children in foster care can have serious mental health issues. Too often these children are given large doses of psychotropic medications, just to keep them quiet.
wrongful removal case
The removal of children from their family's should always be a last resort. These cases demonstrate that Child Protective Services sometimes remove children for all the wrong reasons
child trafficking case
1989 Jan 1
Misc adoption trafficking articles
child trafficking case
1989 Jan 1
child trafficking case
1989 Jan 1
Misc adoption trafficking articles

Krista Stoner

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coerced adoption case
1989 Jan 1
19-year-old woman was pressured by pregnancy counselor Bonnie Jo Williams into giving her baby up for adoption and was coerced into signing adoption papers while she was hospitalized and under the influence of Demerol.
child trafficking case
1989 Jan 1
Miscellaneous child trafficking cases of Filipino children
child trafficking case
1989 Jan 1
child trafficking case
1989 Jan 1
Pregnant women pressured to relinquish their children by maternity homes, often run by Catholic church organizations that profit from placement.

Pregnant women who advertise children and then jointly with adoptive father register the child as his biological child, thus avoiding a legal adoption (both domestic and inter-country adoptions).

Jeannie Warren

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abuse case
1989 Jan 1

As a teenager, Jeannie Warren was under the treatment of Dr Robert Gross for more than a year. During that period, he beat her, threatened her and restrained her with “rage reduction therapy,” an early name for Attachment Therapy. Sessions lasted three to five hours; after a session, she would have swelling, purplish-red welt on her rib cage.

Warren’s early years were allegedly traumatic, including watching her biological mother shoot her father. She was hospitalized after she allegedly sexually abused one adoptive brother, went after another with a hatchet, and carved on her forehead.

She successfully sued and won a judgment against Dr. Gross.

child trafficking case
1989 Jan 1
abuse case
1989 Jan 1
 

At age three, her father Ramon Salcido, embarked on a killing spree, murdering Carmina's mother, her two sisters, two aunts and her grand mother. Carmina's throat was slit, but she managed to survive the massacre.

She was subsequently adopted by Clyde and Betty Swindell from Missouri, members of the ultra-conservative Catholic group "Tradition, Family and Property" (TFP). This family was chosen by her maternal grandfather as he and his family belongs to the same sect. The Swindell family abused her for years, including spending her trust fund, until she left the house at age 17. Carmina's story is told in the book "Not Lost Forever".