Adoption fraud: When hopeful parents are robbed of their dream
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Adoption fraud: When hopeful parents are robbed of their dream

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Adoption agencies can be difficult to work with. They have many requirements that must be met, and justifiably so. They want to make sure an adopted child finds a good and safe home.But some potential parents are patient. They want a faster process and are willing to pay to move to the top of the line. Desperation and fear is where scammers like to operate and today we'll tell you how they do it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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[00:00:30] Niko and Sarah Galle of Rockford already have a little girl, but felt called to adopt

[00:00:36] and were thrilled in July when their adoption agency, Greater Hopes of Wyoming, connected them with a supposed teen mom in Utah

[00:00:44] who wanted to adopt out her two-year-old twins and an 18-month-old.

[00:00:49] In six weeks, the Galle's raised more than $32,000 through GoFundMe and turned it over to Greater Hopes.

[00:00:55] But in late September, days before the girls were set to arrive in Michigan, a devastating update.

[00:01:01] The Galle's wrote that a teenage girl, claiming to be a birth mom, deceived them and their adoption agency

[00:01:07] about her entire backstory, her identity, and more gut-wrenching about the young girls being her children.

[00:01:13] The Galle's told us the woman turned out to be related to the girls, but not their mom.

[00:01:19] We FaceTimed with these girls, wrote the Galle's on Facebook.

[00:01:22] It's an eerie, icky feeling knowing that these girls were rightfully somebody else's and not up for adoption.

[00:01:28] And she was most likely babysitting at the time that the videos and FaceTime took place.

[00:01:45] The birth of a child is usually a happy time, a euphoric time, a time when a family anticipates the arrival of a new member who will be loved and cared for.

[00:02:03] It doesn't always work that way.

[00:02:06] Scammers get involved and rob that family of joy, and it usually happens just before the child is born.

[00:02:14] I'm Jim Grinstead, and today on Scams and Cons, I'm going to tell you the stories of how these scams work.

[00:02:23] I'll tell you up front that this is difficult to hear.

[00:02:26] It's not so much about people losing money, but being robbed of their dreams after many months of anticipation.

[00:02:34] Today we'll cover three aspects of the scam.

[00:02:37] The first will be about adoption scams.

[00:02:40] The second about falsified birth certificates.

[00:02:43] And lastly, forced adoptions.

[00:02:47] So we begin.

[00:02:49] What you heard earlier was the story of a West Michigan couple who planned to adopt a girl from Utah.

[00:02:56] WOOD said that when the birthday came, they made preparations to pick up the biological mother at the airport.

[00:03:02] The scam was exposed, according to the galleys, when the woman and children could not make the trip to Michigan from Utah

[00:03:09] because the so-called birth mom could not produce her ID.

[00:03:13] The galleys noted online that all the money that has been donated has already been paid to the agency and will be used for our future adoption.

[00:03:21] The birth mother did not ask for or receive money.

[00:03:25] It was all held by the agency.

[00:03:28] Here's Deb Gustin, a New Jersey-based adoption attorney.

[00:03:32] If you've been doing this as long as I have, every once in a while you see someone who is what we would call an emotional scammer.

[00:03:38] They're looking for attention more than money.

[00:03:40] We now go from a sad story to a tragic one.

[00:03:49] A woman in Houston cheated a couple out of $10,000.

[00:03:53] And when the couple tried to get answers, they found the woman wasn't even pregnant.

[00:03:59] Breanne Paquin and her husband wanted to adopt and went on social media in hopes of finding someone willing to give up her baby.

[00:04:06] The woman they found said she was five months pregnant.

[00:04:10] And the couple hired a Houston attorney to shepherd the process.

[00:04:19] One of the first things they did was to ask for a photo ID.

[00:04:23] When time came, they began the journey from Ohio to Houston, hoping to meet their new child.

[00:04:30] Fox 26 in Houston has more.

[00:04:33] Along the way, she sent the Paquins pictures and ultrasound videos updating them on the baby.

[00:04:38] We talked about what the future looked like for all of us and wanted to have an open adoption.

[00:04:43] She was still involved with the baby's life.

[00:04:46] She also sent them medical bills, totaling more than $9,000, which they reimbursed her for.

[00:04:52] There was no convincing me or my husband that this was anything but legitimate.

[00:04:57] Fast forward to Christmas Day.

[00:04:59] The woman told them she was set to be induced early in the week.

[00:05:02] So they booked flights, rented a car and an Airbnb and made their way to Houston.

[00:05:07] Car seat in hand.

[00:05:08] Good morning.

[00:05:09] It is induction day.

[00:05:10] You guys' mom's being induced tonight at 8 p.m. Central Time.

[00:05:13] So prayers, please.

[00:05:15] But the day the woman was supposed to be induced, she told the Paquins her mom had to have open

[00:05:20] heart surgery and then days went by and there was still no date set for when the baby would

[00:05:24] be born.

[00:05:25] That's when the Paquins lawyer set them down and told them he believed they'd been scammed.

[00:05:29] The lawyer and my husband actually went out to one of her last known addresses, which

[00:05:37] happened to be family members at first.

[00:05:39] And they spoke with her family.

[00:05:41] People had, they said they did not think she was pregnant at all.

[00:05:45] They said that was a lie.

[00:05:47] Our mom was completely fine.

[00:05:49] Was not in the hospital.

[00:05:51] Nothing has changed.

[00:05:52] We left an empty house and we're coming home to an empty house.

[00:05:57] The Peterson Kaiser Family Foundation says giving birth can cost $18,865 on average, including

[00:06:11] pregnancy, free and postpartum care.

[00:06:15] Health insurance can cover most of that.

[00:06:18] But if the birth mother doesn't have insurance, those costs, plus agency fees, transportation

[00:06:24] and more, fall to the adopting family.

[00:06:29] Lifetime adoption, an accredited faith-based agency in Florida, says it's not unusual for

[00:06:35] potential parents to get a call in the middle of the night telling them a baby is available

[00:06:40] and the birth mother waited for the last minute to decide.

[00:06:45] The agency says potential parents should verify her situation, obtaining the name of the hospital

[00:06:51] and the doctor.

[00:06:53] A call to the nurse's station in the maternity ward could be worthwhile.

[00:06:57] Lastly, from KDKA in Pittsburgh, a couple was notified that a baby would be available.

[00:07:03] They had showers and even showed off a sonogram on social media.

[00:07:08] Then came the call.

[00:07:09] I got a call from her mother crying to me on the phone stating that Casey had the baby

[00:07:16] but the baby had died at the hospital.

[00:07:19] The poor father unable to make it to the hospital to see his dead son.

[00:07:23] Her whole story of what happened like at the hospital and said that by the time Jeff got

[00:07:28] there, she was already discharged.

[00:07:30] Now, when you lose a baby, that first off does not happen.

[00:07:34] Cindy DeLossia knew something was up.

[00:07:36] While this was all happening, the couple appealed on GoFundMe for money to help bury little

[00:07:41] Easton Walt Lang.

[00:07:42] Jeffrey Lang's Facebook page had a sad entry from a brokenhearted father.

[00:07:46] They held a memorial service and everything afterwards.

[00:07:50] Still suspicious, Cindy DeLossia made a phone call.

[00:07:53] And I talked to the funeral home and I verified that that baby never existed.

[00:07:57] That was the last straw for a now fully skeptical former friend.

[00:08:01] I couldn't go and sit there and watch everybody cry and everything over something that I knew

[00:08:07] was not real.

[00:08:08] DeLossia called the state police and the Lang's tragic tale fell to pieces.

[00:08:13] But what about the adorable picture?

[00:08:14] This was fake.

[00:08:16] It was a fake baby.

[00:08:27] A birth certificate is considered a gateway document.

[00:08:30] It's the piece of paper you use to get all the other important papers in your life.

[00:08:35] A social security card, a passport, and in some places, a driver's license.

[00:08:40] It can also be used to steal government benefits.

[00:08:43] They are also the perfect way to steal someone's identity.

[00:08:47] An original birth certificate can easily be altered to create a new false identity for you

[00:08:53] or a child.

[00:08:54] And if you get caught, there isn't much to fear.

[00:08:59] Birth certificate fraud is addressed in both federal and state laws.

[00:09:02] It's considered a felony in only 23 states.

[00:09:06] In 28 states, it remains classified as a misdemeanor.

[00:09:10] This classification may contribute to the low prosecution rates.

[00:09:14] In felony cases, the laws are generally applied to those creating false identities.

[00:09:20] Birth certificates are particularly valuable because they don't include a photo.

[00:09:25] It would be useless to use a photo of the baby, and there's no way to know how the person will look as an adult.

[00:09:31] 12 News Arizona and Phoenix tells us about problems there.

[00:09:36] Standing in front of a forged birth certificate, Attorney General Chris Mays,

[00:09:40] how five defendants allegedly took advantage of the state's ESA program to steal more than $600,000 of taxpayer money.

[00:09:47] They created children that didn't exist and gave them fake disability diagnoses.

[00:09:56] Three of the five defendants were insiders, employees of the Department of Ed.

[00:09:59] They are accused of forgery, fraud, and theft, allegedly creating 17 disability ESA accounts,

[00:10:04] including five ghost students that didn't even exist.

[00:10:08] Mays alleges the ESA program that has ballooned since its expansion in 2022 is uniquely vulnerable.

[00:10:15] And the lack of controls, regulation, and appropriate oversight make the voucher ESA program a target for fraudsters.

[00:10:29] I have no tolerance for fraudulent activity.

[00:10:32] State Superintendent Tom Horn pushing back, saying his office is flagging cases of fraud.

[00:10:37] Horn's ESA program director says they do have tools to detect forged birth certificates.

[00:10:43] A lot of things are being bought that you would not associate with educational activities.

[00:10:47] Let's put it that way.

[00:10:48] ESA accounts allow parents to send their children to state-approved schools using state-approved money.

[00:10:55] The money can also be used to fund higher education.

[00:10:58] Fake birth certificates can be used to steal government benefits and commit child identity theft.

[00:11:04] And of course, none of this is possible without a birth certificate.

[00:11:08] Even when a legal attempt is made to alter a birth certificate so the real father's name appears,

[00:11:14] state law can get in the way.

[00:11:16] It happened in Oklahoma, and the impediment was the state's Uniform Parentage Act.

[00:11:22] It provides a structure for creating necessary forms.

[00:11:25] The day I held my daughter in my arms, I cried.

[00:11:28] I said, hey, this is my daughter.

[00:11:30] The hospital put it on the temporary birth certificate.

[00:11:33] And then the state later said, no, it's not.

[00:11:35] It's this man's.

[00:11:36] Donnell says there's never been any question.

[00:11:39] He is Lillian's father.

[00:11:41] But he was shocked to learn the state's vital records department wouldn't acknowledge it on her birth certificate.

[00:11:46] And in today's world, there are a lot of different types of relationships that could produce a child.

[00:11:53] If I'm saying I'm separated from my legal husband, but this guy here in the hospital is the father of the baby, I should be able to put that.

[00:12:03] Megan was married to someone else when Lillian was born.

[00:12:07] Under state law, he was considered the dad.

[00:12:09] Do I lie on a form saying I'm not married, or do I tell the truth and have to put my now ex-husband's name?

[00:12:16] This allowed my egg to get what he wanted in the divorce because he had legal rights over my daughter.

[00:12:24] While fake certificates are uncommon in the U.S., they are more of a problem in other countries.

[00:12:29] The Shanghai Daily said a hospital in South China sold fake birth certificates to facilitate human trafficking.

[00:12:38] There had been an earlier revelation of a hospital in central China forging birth certificates.

[00:12:44] A whistleblower released a video alleging that a hospital colluded with intermediaries to sell fake birth certificates for $16,475 each,

[00:12:54] including a complete set of authentic hospitalization and childbirth records.

[00:13:00] He claimed that when the hospital has pregnant women who are about to give birth,

[00:13:04] they will find buyers and have them disguise themselves as expectant mothers to register for prenatal care at a hospital.

[00:13:12] Later, these real expectant mothers will use the information of the buyers to deliver their babies at the hospital.

[00:13:18] After giving birth, the buyers can use the real identities to obtain a medical certificate of birth at the hospital.

[00:13:27] The Irish Examiner said Facebook groups based in the U.K.

[00:13:31] are offering to arrange private adoptions and forged documents to Irish families for a fee of about $2,400.

[00:13:39] The groups are claiming they can act as the facilitator between prospective adopters

[00:13:43] and single women who are not in a position to look after their babies.

[00:13:47] The proposed adoption would mimic some of the private adoptions illegally carried out in Ireland up until the 1970s.

[00:13:55] Up to 20,000 false registrations of Irish babies here left them with no trace of their biological history

[00:14:02] and in some cases no idea they were even adopted.

[00:14:06] Similar problems happen elsewhere in the world.

[00:14:10] Bambantarlac Mayor Alice Goh was already 19 years old when her birth was registered,

[00:14:15] according to the Philippine Statistics Authority or PSA.

[00:14:19] Goh has repeatedly said she does not know why it took so long,

[00:14:22] a statement that some senators found suspicious.

[00:14:25] According to the PSA, however, late registration of birth really happens.

[00:14:30] From 2013 to 2022, the annual average delayed birth registration was more than 972,000.

[00:14:39] Of the 111 million Filipinos in 2020, 3.7 million did not have birth certificates or were not registered.

[00:14:46] So what happens when you discover your birth certificate is a lie?

[00:14:51] Victoria Tappankoff tells that in a Canadian TED Talk.

[00:14:55] If this apple gave me food poisoning, I would be able to track where it came from, who transported it, and when.

[00:15:03] If I got sick due to a genetic predisposition, however, I would have no legal way to find out half of my medical history.

[00:15:09] Why does an apple have more information about its history than I do?

[00:15:13] Because I was made with anonymous donor sperm.

[00:15:16] Under current Canadian legislation, because my parents used an anonymous sperm donor,

[00:15:21] I do not have the right to know half of my personal, health, and family history.

[00:15:25] These are my parents. They're pretty normal.

[00:15:28] Like one in six Canadian couples, they experienced infertility.

[00:15:32] But my parents still wanted to have kids, so they decided to use a sperm donor.

[00:15:36] In 1999, they were presented with these options.

[00:15:40] All were anonymous sperm donors.

[00:15:42] With such little information, my mom asked the lab tech which donor was the nicest person.

[00:15:47] Through some online detective work, I discovered that my biological father lived just 30 minutes away from me most of my life.

[00:15:54] He attended the same university at the same time as both of my parents, and I was attending it as well.

[00:16:01] My mom went to school with his cousin.

[00:16:04] And worst of all, my fear of dating a relative was not too far-fetched when I found out that he had over 50 first cousins.

[00:16:11] I wanted to contact him, but I was scared.

[00:16:14] Victoria went on to explain how the problem prevents children from finding out who their real parents are,

[00:16:20] and that impacts medical decisions.

[00:16:23] In some cases, children die from illnesses that could have been prevented or cured.

[00:16:28] All of which leads us to one question.

[00:16:31] And for the answer, we went to countyoffice.org.

[00:16:34] Your birth certificate is a legal document that proves your identity and citizenship, but who owns it?

[00:16:40] The answer is simple. You do.

[00:16:42] Your birth certificate is issued by the government of the state where you were born.

[00:16:46] It contains important information, such as your full name, date of birth, place of birth, and your parents' names.

[00:16:53] While the government issues the birth certificate, it belongs to you, and you have the right to obtain a copy of it.

[00:16:59] You can use it as proof of identity when applying for a passport, driver's license, or other important documents.

[00:17:06] It's important to keep your birth certificate in a safe place, as it can be used for identity theft.

[00:17:16] Pack your body bags.

[00:17:18] We're going on a slaycation.

[00:17:20] Jim, what's a slaycation?

[00:17:21] A slaycation is a murder or mysterious death that happens while you're on vacation.

[00:17:26] If you like to mix humor with horror and travel,

[00:17:29] join me, Kim Davis.

[00:17:31] And me, Adam Tex Davis.

[00:17:32] And me, Cherry Colbert.

[00:17:34] As we look at the craziest slaycations that will have you asking what the F is wrong with people,

[00:17:40] you can find Slaycation on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

[00:17:44] Just remember, getting away can be murder.

[00:17:52] We now turn to the topic of forced adoptions.

[00:17:56] Situations where a mother is separated from her baby and given up for adoption without her consent.

[00:18:01] My story was I was a country girl.

[00:18:04] I got pregnant.

[00:18:06] I had a child at 17.

[00:18:08] I was put in Elam, which was the Salvation Army home for unmarried mothers.

[00:18:14] The treatment there is another story.

[00:18:17] I lost my child to adoption and I've got her back now with two grandchildren.

[00:18:23] And my daughter and her children were here today with me.

[00:18:26] We heard some terrible stories from Lara Giddings about what happened at childbirth with some mothers.

[00:18:34] Some of the officials or whoever was there put pillows over the faces of some mothers

[00:18:38] so that they couldn't see their children.

[00:18:40] What happened to you at the point of childbirth?

[00:18:44] I was tied to a bed.

[00:18:47] I had back pains.

[00:18:48] I was told to stop whinging and take a disperine.

[00:18:51] When the time got closer, I was tied to a bed.

[00:18:54] I was left there.

[00:18:55] I had my child by myself.

[00:18:58] My daughter was going over the edge of the bed when someone walked in with a bundle of towels

[00:19:03] and caught her in mid-air.

[00:19:05] And when you say you were tied to the bed, at what stage was that?

[00:19:09] Was that actually before the childbirth?

[00:19:12] Oh, yes, yes, yes.

[00:19:14] This story comes from Canada where the law was changed to protect mothers.

[00:19:19] I started searching for her before she turned 18, a couple of weeks before she was 18.

[00:19:24] She's 44 now.

[00:19:26] It was a long battle.

[00:19:28] It was a long battle because they were just starting to change the laws so that you could

[00:19:32] search.

[00:19:33] And it was worth it, of course.

[00:19:36] And it wasn't all good news.

[00:19:38] We had some big, big bumps.

[00:19:41] But yes, she's in our life now.

[00:19:43] And it's really, really good.

[00:19:45] The biggest problem was when you had the second baby.

[00:19:47] You were too frightened to leave it or take your eyes off it because you were frightened

[00:19:51] that someone was going to whisk him away and you were never going to see him like the first.

[00:19:56] Parents got gooey-gooey over the second child and nobody could have cared less over the first one.

[00:20:00] And I think that was probably the biggest impact on me.

[00:20:03] A woman in Baltimore was a victim of forced adoption.

[00:20:06] And when she became an adult, she went on a quest to find her real parents.

[00:20:11] She told WBAL her story.

[00:20:14] Kara Miranda was taken from her mother when she was three months old.

[00:20:17] They were living in Chile and there were many forced adoptions between 1973 and 1990.

[00:20:24] Now an agency is working to reunite the children and their mothers.

[00:20:29] There's coercive adoptions.

[00:20:31] There's forced adoptions.

[00:20:33] And then there's just stealing of children.

[00:20:36] Now the lawyer and retired Marine is working with the nonprofit to help reunite more families

[00:20:41] and hold those accountable for decades of counterfeit adoptions.

[00:20:46] So in a few weeks, I'll be returning to Chile, to Santiago, to work with Ciro Colombara and his firm.

[00:20:51] And we're going to be filing our case, starting to look for justice in this.

[00:20:55] And for the first time, we're going to have our own voice in seeking justice.

[00:21:01] Lastly, in Australia, there was the St. Mary's Home for Children.

[00:21:06] It operated from 1953 to the early 1980s as a home for unwed mothers.

[00:21:13] In 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard read a national apology in federal parliament.

[00:21:20] She outlined the fact that mothers were given false assurances by authorities and were, quote,

[00:21:26] forced to endure the coercion and brutality of practices that were unethical, dishonest,

[00:21:33] and in many cases illegal.

[00:21:36] Eventually, the home was torn down and a garden planted in its place.

[00:21:40] It was a gathering spot for the 150,000 mothers who passed through the home.

[00:21:46] The Australian Broadcasting Company talked with two of the mothers.

[00:21:51] My story is I'm a mum who lost her baby to forced adoption.

[00:21:56] I won't forget, I won't forgive, and I can't accept the fact that they took my baby

[00:22:01] and I never saw him grow up.

[00:22:04] In December of 1969, I got a job as a governess on a property in western Queensland.

[00:22:11] I was a victim of pack rape, and I wrote to my mum, told her the situation,

[00:22:21] and she said, you can't come home.

[00:22:26] The people I was working for spoke to the Bush Brothers.

[00:22:30] They're the Anglican Travelling Ministers, and they found me the place at St Mary's.

[00:22:36] In 1965, I found myself pregnant and became engaged because I was pregnant,

[00:22:42] and then was jilted three weeks before my wedding.

[00:22:44] So with that, I was sent to St Mary's home at Toowong and stayed there until the birth of my son.

[00:22:52] The garden means somewhere to go and reflect on what's happened,

[00:22:57] but it's also a bit of a closure with the home.

[00:23:02] That's part of the story that we left behind.

[00:23:04] It still impacts on us today.

[00:23:07] You might hear a song, or you might see something on the TV,

[00:23:11] and it takes you back to that instant.

[00:23:14] The way I have coped with life from the loss of my son

[00:23:18] is I have separated the younger person that was me,

[00:23:23] and her suffering, she never recovered from that.

[00:23:27] So her suffering, I sort of have divided my life into two pieces.

[00:23:32] I'm happily married.

[00:23:34] I have two beautiful daughters, and that life is all I could want it to be.

[00:23:39] But when our lives mix, then I'm faced with all the things that she lost.

[00:23:45] She lost everything.

[00:23:53] I went to the hospital, had him at about 2.30 in the morning.

[00:23:56] I vaguely remember the clock in front of my face,

[00:24:00] and they just took him straight away.

[00:24:02] I didn't see him.

[00:24:03] They just took him straight out of the ward.

[00:24:06] I asked to see him, and I refused.

[00:24:09] I wouldn't have known that I had a son,

[00:24:11] except somebody came back and said that you had a son,

[00:24:14] a long skinny streak like yourself,

[00:24:16] crop of black hair and the same crooked little fingers.

[00:24:19] So for a long time afterwards, I was looking for a baby with crooked fingers.

[00:24:22] I was in the hospital for 10 days.

[00:24:26] I refused to sign the consent form.

[00:24:29] I kept asking to see him.

[00:24:31] I was told, don't bother looking for him.

[00:24:33] You'll never find him.

[00:24:35] And they told me the only way to get out of here is to sign the consent form.

[00:24:38] I have no medical records, but I feel that I was drugged

[00:24:44] because I don't remember his birth or the next five days.

[00:24:48] I just feel I was kept in a sedated state

[00:24:50] so that I wouldn't cause any complications for them.

[00:24:53] Once I'd signed the consent form with no guardian, no parent there,

[00:24:58] I was allowed to go down and see him through a glass window.

[00:25:01] And when I asked could I nurse him, they said,

[00:25:04] no, you're too upset.

[00:25:04] Go back to your room.

[00:25:06] So that was my one memory.

[00:25:07] I can still see his face today.

[00:25:09] The garden is a part of a journey.

[00:25:12] The end of the journey will be when I get my name on a birth or death certificate

[00:25:16] and they'll have a leaf that has my name and my son's birth name on it.

[00:25:21] And to me, that's the first time in 53 years I've seen our names link together.

[00:25:27] So no more secrecy and no more lies.

[00:25:30] That little leaf means the world to me.

[00:25:34] 1993, we met for the first time and I met him at the airport.

[00:25:39] And in my mind, I'm expecting the baby that I'd never seen.

[00:25:43] And out walks a man in front of me.

[00:25:45] It's like really hard to accept mentally that transition from baby to man.

[00:25:52] And all I wanted to do was cling up onto him and not let him go.

[00:25:57] So yes, we've worked hard for the relationship that we have today.

[00:26:01] We've lived through it.

[00:26:03] We look after each other.

[00:26:04] Each other's back.

[00:26:05] And we fight together for everything that's still required.

[00:26:08] The damage that they did to mothers and children and the extended families is ongoing.

[00:26:13] It's not an incident that happened once and then you walked away from it unscathed.

[00:26:18] It's a lifetime sentence.

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