The Child Exchange: Americans use the Internet to abandon children adopted from overseas
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(This is a 5 part investigative series by Reuters. Parts 1 and 2 have been published today. It is long, sickening and eye-opening. When we as a country can't even try to stop this, why in the world do we spend obscene amounts of money on items that are really frivolous compared to this.
This is without question one of the worst stories I have ever read. I can't unread it, and I wouldn't if I could. I will add it to other horrors about kids that I can't forget. I write and do what I can. I wish I could do much more, and I wish that I could believe that anything is really being done.)
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.
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.
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In an interview earlier this year, Nicole Eason - the woman who disappeared with Quita - referred to private re-homing as "non-legalized adoption."
"The meaning of non-legalized is, 'Hey, can I have your baby?'" Eason said.
She discussed why she was so motivated to be a mother. "It makes me feel important," she said.
And she described her parenting style this way: "Dude, just be a little mean, OK? … I'll threaten to throw a knife at your ass, I will. I'll chase you with a hose.
"I won't leave burns on you. I won't leave marks on you. I'm not going to send you with bruises to school," she said. "Make sure you got three meals a day, make sure you have a place to live, OK? If you need medication for your psychological problems, I've got you there. You need therapy? You need a hug? You need a kiss? Somebody to tickle with you? I got you. OK? But this world is not meant to be perfect. And I just don't understand why people think it is."
The story of the Easons and the girls and boys they have taken through re-homing illustrates the many ways in which the U.S. government fails to protect children of adoptions gone awry. It shows how virtually anyone determined to get a child can do so with ease, and how children brought to America can be abruptly discarded and recycled.
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http://www.reuters.com/investigates/adoption/#article/part1
Nicole Eason should be locked away FOREVER!
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I read most of the way through to find out if Quita was okay. I am not sure I can handle the rest.
The other day I was annoyed at the ads I saw where people were giving up their pets because they just didn't have time for them or they didn't want to train them. Now I read this and wonder what kind of sick people are out there? 
