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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
abuse case
2023 Mar

10-year-old girl adopted by Arun and Anjana Sinha was tortured by her adoptive parents.

abuse case
2023 Mar

Three children adopted by Charles Wadlington were allegedly sexually abused by their adoptive father,

abuse case
2023 Feb

Some of nine children adopted by Hayim Cohen where sexually abused by him.

abuse case
2023 Feb

9-year-old girl adopted by a 50-year-old nurse from the RK Puram residential colony of Delhi, was tortured by her adoptive mother. She was forced to sleep unclothed on the roof and balcony of the house. The adoptive mother slashed the girls' tongue with a knife and brandered her with hot coal.

Skyler Wilson

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abuse case
2023 Jan 6

4-year-old boy adopted by Joseph Paul Wilson and Jodi Ann Wilson, died in the hospital after sustaining injuries. His adoptive parents are charged with murder. 
 

disrupted placement case
2023 Jan

3 children from India adopted by couple from Malta were abandoned by their adoptive parents. 

abuse case
2022 Nov

13-year-old boy adopted by Matthew and Sarah Stephens was severely neglected by his adoptive parents, and eventually abandoned by him at a hospital.

abuse case
2022 Nov

A 12-year-old girl adopted by and a 7-year-old boy in foster care with Robert and Sheri Leason, were allegedly both abused. The boy was allegedly physically abused by his foster mother, while the girl was allegedly sexually abused by her adoptive father.

Brogan Duhon

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abuse case
2022 Oct 17

12-year-old boy adopted by Adam Jennifer Duhon was starved to death by his adoptive parents.

Meelah Miller

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abuse case
2022 Sep 10

8-year-old girl adopted by her aunt Mandie Miller died due to unknown causes. Her body was transported by her adoptive mother and Aleksander Kurmoyarov, the mother's boy friend, to South Dakota. 

The couple was attempting to bring the body to be buried on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Kurmoyarov told detectives that he and Miller tied Meelah up for several hours a day, and that Miller would hit her toes with a hammer when she misbehaved. 

He said at nighttime they would put her in a bath robe and secure her like she was in a straitjacket. He admitted to tying her up for four to six hours a day, and zip -tied her to a car seat the day she died. He said he slapped her twice on the day she died, the documents said.