UPDATE: Rosie O'Donnell Says Her 17-Year-Old Daughter, Chelsea, FOUND.

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53. So Rosie and the adoption agency get to unilaterally declare by fiat that the system

wasn't working and so all options are on the table?

Why wasn't the system working? Because the mother of the child that Rosie coveted had not had her daughter taken away forever? Maybe the system did work because Deanna (Kayla's real mom) did nothing to warrant a TPR so there wasn't one. In any event, it is never OK to short circuit the process with a coerced adoption.

This was not a woman under investigation. This was a case of a scheming adoption agency and a scheming prospective adoptive parent managing to get a woman's signature on something they knew she didn't want to sign.

And not much is required in order to do an adoption, not even an appearance in a courtroom in some states. As long as the PAPs have done a home study, often all you need is to get the signature of the mom--with no protections for her at all. No counseling, no court appearance (in some places) and no time afterwards to rescind, in case there was coercion or fraud.

I am angry at everyone involved in this de facto kidnapping: the system that allowed it, the abusive husband who maneuvered it, the corrupt adoption agency that facilitated it and the greedy PAPs who paid for it.

Kayla turns 18 on August 24. Hopefully she can reunite with her real mom and all her blood relatives at that point. It is a tragedy that she was ever stolen from them.