Guatemalan mom says she will seek help from US state court in effort to get back adopted girl

[lovedforaday]

A Guatemalan mother who says her child was stolen and later turned over to a U.S. couple for adoption said Tuesday that she will go to a Missouri court seeking to get her daughter back now that the U.S. State Department has said it doesn’t have jurisdiction to help return the girl.

The State Department confirmed Tuesday that it has informed

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[pepsquad]

Public adoptions in this country often are of not nuerologically typical kids which a lot of people don't want. Private adoptions are a cluster fuck and a half. A friend of mine paid the expenses of three women, who decided to keep their baby at the last minute, which is their right. And my friend now has a 60k loan debt. Turns out one of the women has down this before to two other couple and has now decided to adopt out her newest pregnancy.

It's hard and there are no winners in any of this, so my friends are in the process of adopting a girl from a Russian orphanage and a girl from china.

[bestdaywelived]

That is truly awful. Can they recoup any of the expenses of these women, or are they just out the costs? It seems like a perfect scam on desperate couples looking to expand their families. :-/

[pepsquad]

nope, and women abusing this system are definitely not the norm. it's just really hard. so they were forced to look overseas and about to be spend the summer in Russia to meet the requirements to take home the little girl.

[nikoel]

This happened to my husband's niece, only it was Columbia. She just met her family last year after almost 20 years. They didn't have the resources to come find her in the US, so she eventually found them. She was very well cared for by my sister-in-law, but it's really sad all the same.

[bestdaywelived]

This is really, really awful. The lag in the courts is going to make it nearly impossible for this child to assimilate to life in Guatemala. Of course, she should be back with her family of origin, but I think that the child is the real victim in all of this. It has to be incredibly confusing and distressing to be told (if she even knows) that she needs to return to her birth family, who she has no memory of, in a country that she has no connection to that she can remember.

[mirhanda]

I think that the child is the real victim in all of this

+1

[eculeus]

The poor girl loses any way you look at this. It could be in court for years and then if she is returned to her birth mother it would be incredibly traumatic because she would lose the only parents she has ever known.

[roseofjuly]

I don't think it's going to be "nearly impossible" for her to assimilate, since assimilation can occur successfully at any age. But it will be many times more difficult.

[kyra_neko_rei]

A public relations firm the Monahans hired said last year that they “will continue to advocate for the safety and best interests of their legally adopted child.”

So, if someone were to kidnap her back, and forge documents to get her back to Guatemala, and let her real mother adopt her, they'll consider that a "legal adoption" too?

I smell bullshit. Lots of it.

[roseofjuly]

Sadly, if they have enough money to hire a PR firm I don't have much hope for Ms. Hernandez Rodriguez.

[kaowolfie]

Yeah. Money talks. :/

[thelastpen]

Hiring a public relations firm, going through with an adoption where it sounds like they pretty much knew the child was obtained via fraud thanks to a failed DNA test, pushing for the adoption to go through despite this...

Sounds like they knew quite a bit about the kidnapping.