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Americans use the Internet to abandon children adopted from overseas
By Megan Twohey
Filed September 9, 2013
MOTIVATED MOM: In her time seeking children on the Internet, Nicole Eason has referred to herself as Big Momma and Momma Bear. Her term for informal custody transfers is "non-legalized adoption," and she defines the phrase to mean: "Hey, can I have your baby?" REUTERS/Samantha Sais
GIRL AVAILABLE: Quita Puchalla's adoptive parents used this photo to advertise her online. REUTERS/Handout
NEW PARENTS: On the day her adoptive parents dropped her at the Eason trailer in Illinois, they snapped this picture inside the couple's kitchen. From left to right, Calvin Eason, Quita Puchalla and Nicole Eason. REUTERS/Handout
When a Liberian girl proves too much for her parents, they advertise her online and give her to a couple they’ve never met. Days later, she goes missing.
ONGOING STRUGGLE: Today, Quita Puchalla lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She says she still cannot reconcile why the parents who adopted her from Liberia gave her away. "How would you give me up when you brought me to be yours?" she asks. REUTERS/Jeffrey Phelps
KIEL, Wisconsin – Todd and Melissa Puchalla struggled for more than two years to raise Quita, the troubled teenager they'd adopted from Liberia. When they decided to give her up, they found new parents to take her in less than two days – by posting an ad on the Internet.
Nicole and Calvin Eason, an Illinois couple in their 30s, saw the ad and a picture of the smiling 16-year-old. They were eager to take Quita, even though the ad warned that she had been diagnosed with severe health and behavioral problems. In emails, Nicole Eason assured Melissa Puchalla that she could handle the girl.
"People that are around me think I am awesome with kids," Eason wrote.
A few weeks later, on Oct. 4, 2008, the Puchallas drove six hours from their Wisconsin home to Westville, Illinois. The handoff took place at the Country Aire Mobile Home Park, where the Easons lived in a trailer.
No attorneys or child welfare officials came with them. The Puchallas simply signed a notarized statement declaring these virtual strangers to be Quita's guardians. The visit lasted just a few hours. It was the first and the last time the couples would meet.
To Melissa Puchalla, the Easons "seemed wonderful." Had she vetted them more closely, she might have discovered what Reuters would learn:
• Child welfare authorities had taken away both of Nicole Eason's biological children years earlier. After a sheriff's deputy helped remove the Easons' second child, a newborn baby boy, the deputy wrote in his report that the "parents have severe psychiatric problems as well with violent tendencies."
• The Easons each had been accused by children they were babysitting of sexual abuse, police reports show. They say they did nothing wrong, and neither was charged.
• The only official document attesting to their parenting skills – one purportedly drafted by a social worker who had inspected the Easons' home – was fake, created by the Easons themselves.
On Quita's first night with the Easons, her new guardians told her to join them in their bed, Quita says today. Nicole slept naked, she says.
Within a few days, the Easons stopped responding to Melissa Puchalla's attempts to check on Quita, Puchalla says. When she called the school that Quita was supposed to attend, an administrator told Puchalla that the teenager had never shown up.
Quita wasn't at the trailer park, either. The Easons had packed up their purple Chevy truck and driven off with her, leaving behind a pile of trash, a pair of blue mattresses and two puppies chained in their yard, authorities later found.
The Puchallas had rescued Quita from an orphanage in Liberia, brought her to America and then signed her over to a couple they barely knew. Days later, they had no idea what had become of her.
When she arrived in the United States, Quita says, she "was happy … coming to a nicer place, a safer place. It didn't turn out that way," she says today. "It turned into a nightmare."
The teenager had been tossed into America's underground market for adopted children, a loose Internet network where desperate parents seek new homes for kids they regret adopting. Like Quita, now 21, these children are often the casualties of international adoptions gone sour.
****Continued in link (Long and depressing ass 5-part article below)****
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/adoption/#article/part1
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I wanted to read it but the way op set it up....couldn't do it.
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I guess it's a sad story, but for real, how are you going to get saved from a bad situation, come to a better place, and then act an ass?
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She ? her parents gave her away like the way they did and the fact her adopted parents had their children taken away from them and they are pedos as well.
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EmperorRises wrote: »She ? her parents gave her away like the way they did. Non reading mofos
She's ? her adoptive parents gave her away, and they gave her up because they said she was too much of a behavioral problem to deal with.
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The Lonious Monk wrote: »EmperorRises wrote: »She ? her parents gave her away like the way they did. Non reading mofos
She's ? her adoptive parents gave her away, and they gave her up because they said she was too much of a behavioral problem to deal with.
? is all ? up, but still she probably didn't want to leave her family. -
One of my best friends was a foster kid, he lived in a house with a few other foster kids. Most of them are moved around pretty often. From what I seen, it's hell.
Both the foster parent and foster kids are very angry people. The parents seem stressed and overwhelmed. The kids seem frustrated and spiteful.
The foster parents get money to take care of the kids, so basically, they're used as a paycheck. They also seem to be used as "slaves", they do all the work around the house.
My friend had finally moved from that place and into a place where the mother was extremely nice to him and let him live freely. He said he was happier there.
We talked a lot about ? like this. He said what he went through is the norm for most foster kids. -
One of my best friends was a foster kid, he lived in a house with a few other foster kids. Most of them are moved around pretty often. From what I seen, it's hell.
Both the foster parent and foster kids are very angry people. The parents seem stressed and overwhelmed. The kids seem frustrated and spiteful.
The foster parents get money to take care of the kids, so basically, they're used as a paycheck. They also seem to be used as "slaves", they do all the work around the house.
My friend had finally moved from that place and into a place where the mother was extremely nice to him and let him live freely. He said he was happier there.
We talked a lot about ? like this. He said what he went through is the norm for most foster kids.
Foster parents and adoptive parents are different though. Adoptive homes are standard familial units. There just isn't any blood relationship between the parents and children. Foster homes are basically just temporary homes for kids that are waiting to be adopted. -
The Lonious Monk wrote: »One of my best friends was a foster kid, he lived in a house with a few other foster kids. Most of them are moved around pretty often. From what I seen, it's hell.
Both the foster parent and foster kids are very angry people. The parents seem stressed and overwhelmed. The kids seem frustrated and spiteful.
The foster parents get money to take care of the kids, so basically, they're used as a paycheck. They also seem to be used as "slaves", they do all the work around the house.
My friend had finally moved from that place and into a place where the mother was extremely nice to him and let him live freely. He said he was happier there.
We talked a lot about ? like this. He said what he went through is the norm for most foster kids.
Foster parents and adoptive parents are different though. Adoptive homes are standard familial units. There just isn't any blood relationship between the parents and children. Foster homes are basically just temporary homes for kids that are waiting to be adopted.
I was assuming that it would be the same for them both mentally.
You gotta think, it ? these kids up. -
? 's disgusting.
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The Lonious Monk wrote: »One of my best friends was a foster kid, he lived in a house with a few other foster kids. Most of them are moved around pretty often. From what I seen, it's hell.
Both the foster parent and foster kids are very angry people. The parents seem stressed and overwhelmed. The kids seem frustrated and spiteful.
The foster parents get money to take care of the kids, so basically, they're used as a paycheck. They also seem to be used as "slaves", they do all the work around the house.
My friend had finally moved from that place and into a place where the mother was extremely nice to him and let him live freely. He said he was happier there.
We talked a lot about ? like this. He said what he went through is the norm for most foster kids.
Foster parents and adoptive parents are different though. Adoptive homes are standard familial units. There just isn't any blood relationship between the parents and children. Foster homes are basically just temporary homes for kids that are waiting to be adopted.
I was assuming that it would be the same for them both mentally.
You gotta think, it ? these kids up.
I don't see why it would be the same. If a child is adopted into a good home he/she will have a relatively normal life. I'm not saying there will be no hangups with the fact that he/she was adopted, but it's different with foster care. In foster care, children have to deal with the disappointment of not being adopted, the chance that they might be bounced around frequently, and a much larger likelihood that the people they are living with are just in it for the money. -
Ew @ the thought at having to sleep in between those perverted ? .
How sad. -
Reading this ? now..? me off
