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  • Sick Puppy Rescued From Massive Pot Grow Near Santa Maria Adopted by Detective

    09/28/2018 5:20:10 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 12 replies
    ktla ^ | September 28, 2018 | Brian Day,
    The pooch was found abandoned as deputies busted an illicit marijuana grove containing 5,473 pot plants on Wednesday, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said in a written statement. “(The) small puppy was lying in a pile of plastic, surrounded by fertilizers and hazardous chemicals,” the statement said. “The puppy was slow to respond and lethargic.” No food or water had been provided for the animal, and temperatures were around 90 degrees. Deputies arranged to have the dog taken to the Santa Maria Animal Center. “This little guy made quite the impression on every detective and deputy on scene,” the...
  • The Adopted Girl Trump Praised Tuesday Night is More Special Than He Knew

    05/24/2018 7:24:58 AM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 23 replies
    The Western Journal ^ | May 23, 2018 at 3:39pm | Rachel del Guidice
    Adopting a daughter has changed her life and opened her eyes to the beauty of adoption, one mother says. Finding out the baby was addicted to an opioid couldn’t dim that beauty, the mother said in an interview with The Daily Signal. “I can’t even tell you or measure the amount of joy that she has brought to us,” Lisa Alexander, who adopted 4-year-old Katharine with her husband Bruce, said in the phone interview Monday. “When I first saw Katharine, it was very, very similar to having a birth child, like your own child,” Alexander said. “I think [that’s] what...
  • 'Drop-kicked and starved to death': Adoptive family are charged with torturing an Iowa girl, 16,....

    06/01/2017 6:40:05 PM PDT · by Morgana · 73 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | June 1, 2017 | Associated Press and Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com
    FULL TITLE: 'Drop-kicked and starved to death': Adoptive family are charged with torturing an Iowa girl, 16, who weighed just 56LBS when she died at home while her parents vacationed at Disney World Five people have been charged in the starvation death of a 16-year-old Iowa girl who weighed only 56lbs when she died. Sabrina Ray's body was found May 12 in the Perry home she shared with her adoptive parents, 41-year-old Marc Ray and 40-year-old Misty Ray, who were charged on May 17. Police said Wednesday that the girl was unable to walk, talk or eat after being 'drop-kicked'...
  • Nancy Pelosi Tells Adopted Woman: Your Mom Should Have Had the “Choice” to Abort You

    02/03/2017 9:21:43 PM PST · by detective · 73 replies
    Life News ^ | Feb 3, 2017 | Micaiah Bilger
    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has made some pretty outrageous statements about abortion in the past. During a recent CNN Town Hall event, Pelosi stuck her foot in her mouth again when she told a young woman who was adopted that her mother should have had the “choice” to abort her. “I am part of the pro-life generation,” college student Brianna Kristyn Roberts told Pelosi. “I believe that abortion is not the answer for unplanned pregnancy.
  • Mother and boyfriend charged after her 14-year-old adopted daughter was raped,......

    01/08/2017 5:13:30 PM PST · by Morgana · 62 replies
    dailymail.uk ^ | January 8, 2017 | Kaileen Gaul For Dailymail.com
    FULL TITLE: Mother and boyfriend charged after her 14-year-old adopted daughter was raped, slaughtered and chopped up in 'sick rape-murder fantasy they plotted for more than a year' A mother and her boyfriend allegedly planned the rape and murder of her 14-year-old adopted daughter for over a year. On Sunday morning, Jacob Sullivan was charged with the kidnapping, rape and murder of Grace Packer. A few hours later, Sara Packer was charged with homicide and 'related offenses.' Sullivan admitted both were responsible for her murder while in hospital last week after a failed suicide attempt.
  • Seven special-needs teens rescued from Texas 'house of horrors' had an eighth brother who died,.....

    12/09/2016 7:31:47 AM PST · by Morgana · 22 replies
    dailymail.uk ^ | December 9, 2016 | Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com
    FULL TITLE: Seven special-needs teens rescued from Texas 'house of horrors' had an eighth brother who died, 'were whipped with boards, starved and forced to clean a disabled child's privates with bleach' Harrowing new details have emerged in the abuse case involving seven special-needs children who were rescued from a Texas home last month, including tales of brutal whippings, a desperate escape attempt and the revelation that a disabled 7-year-old boy died in that household in 2011. Paula Sinclair, 54, and her boyfriend, 78-year-old Allen Richardson, of Richmond, were arrested on charges of injury to a child and aggravated kidnapping...
  • Birth Records Sealed for 50 Years To Be Released Friday

    03/16/2015 8:00:25 PM PDT · by Citizen Zed · 38 replies
    wkef abc 22 ^ | 3-16-2015
    DAYTON -- Imagine never knowing who your biological parents are, or where you came from. That is the reality for 400K people born in Ohio from the mid 1960's until 1996. Their birth records have been sealed, until this Friday. The law originally passed in 1963 was designed to give birth parents some protection, and it was heavily supported by the adoptive parents. But fast forward 50 years, and attitudes have changed. "I've always known that I was adopted... and I've always known that I wanted to find my birth parents," said Beth Miller who described her childhood as ordinary...
  • An adopted boy who survived abuse has touched the nation with a hug.

    12/05/2014 7:25:45 PM PST · by Morgana · 27 replies
    Live Action News ^ | Dec 2, 2014 | Christina Martin
    Devonte Hart is touching the hearts of hundreds of thousands across the country. An image taken at a Ferguson Rally shows Devonte hugging a police officer with tears streaming down his face. As soon as the picture was posted this 12 year old boy from Portland, Oregon became a symbol of hope in the midst of a nation divided by racial tensions. Devonte was at the rally with his mother, Jen Hart. As Devonte held a sign that said ‘Free Hugs’ a police officer came over to talk with him. After making general conversation Sgt. Bret Barnum asked Devonte why...
  • Discarded Children Still Bring in Subsidy Checks for the Adoptive Parents Who Tossed Them Aside

    09/02/2014 12:03:54 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 17 replies
    New York Daily News ^ | Tuesday, September 2, 2014 | Nick Nehamas
    Hundreds of adoptive parents in New York City who've sent their children to live elsewhere continue to get monthly government subsidies of up to $1,700 per child. They can continue receiving the checks until the child turns 21 years old.They gave up on their “hard-to-place" adopted kids — but not on the government check intended for the discarded kids’ care. Hundreds of adoptive parents across the five boroughs who've sent their children to live elsewhere are continuing to pull in monthly checks of up to $1,700 per child while the city, state and feds look the other way, the Daily...
  • Texas parents who kept their adopted son locked in the garage

    06/27/2014 10:46:20 PM PDT · by Morgana · 11 replies
    dailymail ^ | Ryan Gorman
    FULL TITLE: Texas parents who kept their adopted son locked in the garage for five years claim he is a sexual predator who is a danger to their children A Texas couple accused of kidnapping and imprisoning their adopted son for five years in a garage apartment was busted by police after the 22-year-old was arrested for burglarizing a neighbor’s home. Koystya Thyssen, of Dripping Springs, told investigators that parents Jenifer and Dane Thyssen kept him in isolation for six days a week, according to court documents. His parents claim it was for the safety of their family. The accused...
  • Adoptive Parents Arrested After Abusing, Starving 2 Girls: Arizona Police

    06/08/2014 2:42:04 PM PDT · by Morgana · 10 replies
    CNN ktla.com ^ | June 8, 2014 | CNN Wire
    Share Update 16 7 A Peoria couple faces felony child abuse charges after two of their adoptive daughters outlined a pattern of ongoing physical and psychological abuse at the hands of their parents that began five years ago as an attempt, the mother said, to “train” the girls to be “loving and nurturing. Johann Glenn Jorg, 61, and his wife, Kimery Lynn Jorg, 53, were arrested Thursday afternoon at their home in the area of the Loop 101 Agua Fria Freeway and Bell Road in Peoria. Each face four charges of felony intentional child abuse with intent, according to a...
  • Ohio couple committed crime by returning adopted child, prosecutor says

    11/29/2013 4:25:00 AM PST · by Libloather · 19 replies
    Fox News ^ | 11/27/13
    An Ohio couple committed a crime when they recently gave child welfare officials a 9-year-old boy they raised from infancy, according to a prosecutor, after they said he was displaying aggressive behavior and threatened the family with a knife. Forty-nine-year-old Cleveland Cox and 52-year-old Lisa Cox pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a Butler County court to charges of nonsupport of dependents. **SNIP** Adolfo Olivas, an attorney appointed by the court to protect the boy's interests, has said the emotionally hurt and confused child is now receiving help that the parents should have gotten for him.
  • Freak Meeting Reunites Twins After 41 Years

    07/07/2013 5:04:50 AM PDT · by csvset · 13 replies
    Sky News ^ | 5 July 2013 | Victoria Wei & Sabrina Zeng
    Separated as babies in 1972 due to family poverty, the brothers are together again after a chance encounter in a crowded city. Twin brothers, separated as babies, have been reunited after more than 40 years following a chance encounter in China's Sichuan province.
  • Father spoke of having Obama adopted

    07/07/2011 6:03:06 AM PDT · by Fractal Trader · 98 replies
    Boston Globe ^ | 7 July 2011 | Sally Jacobs
    In the spring of 1961, President Obama’s father revealed a plan for his unborn son that might have changed the course of American political history. The elder Barack H. Obama, a sophomore at the University of Hawaii, had come under scrutiny by federal immigration officials who were concerned that he had more than one wife. When he was questioned by the school’s foreign student adviser, the 24-year-old Obama insisted that he had divorced his wife in his native Kenya. Although his new wife, Ann Dunham, was five months pregnant with their child - who would be called Barack Obama II...
  • Revealed: Barack Obama's 'playboy' father planned to have future president ADOPTED

    07/07/2011 9:53:33 AM PDT · by COUNTrecount · 51 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | July 7, 2011 | Fiona Roberts
    President Barack Obama's father made plans to have the future president adopted, astonishing new documents have revealed. When his 18-year-old wife, Ann Dunham, was five months pregnant, the elder Mr Obama told immigration officials they planned to give the baby away to the Salvation Army. Then a student at the University of Hawaii, immigration officials were investigating him because they believed he had more than one wife - and had already been warned about his 'playboy ways'. Stunning revelation: Barack Obama's father, shown here when the future president was ten, planned to put his unborn son up for adoption Stunning...
  • Soebarkah

    05/31/2011 12:06:12 PM PDT · by opentalk · 38 replies
    Lame Cherry blog ^ | May 31, 2011 | Lame Cherry
    There has been so much written and conjecture on the forced out into the open Obama passport documents that I have not had much interest in exploring them in the name Soebarkah which appears on the document as one of the listed names of Barack Hussein Obama. As an exclusive as only found here though, the name Soebarkah is a confirmation of adoption, Obama's Muslim status and a sort of strange Islamic prophecy of the day Barry was adopted by Lolo Soetoro in that it was not in the stars to last. Soetoro in the name, in the prefix of...
  • Military dog finds himself in lap of leisure

    01/19/2011 10:08:52 AM PST · by SandRat · 13 replies
    Occasionally, Szarik will open one or both eyes as he watches people walking past. Whenever Kacy Sandlin moves, he is on his feet — all four of them — as her protector. No longer does the shiny thick black- and brown-coated German shepherd put on gear like other military working dogs to do his job detecting drugs. Szarik has hip issues and other ailments that meant he could no longer do his military work. So the dog was put up for adoption, once it was determined he could cope in the civilian world. Even though Szarik is retired, he doesn’t...
  • "Adopted as Sons" (Sermon for the Second Sunday after Christmas, on Ephesians 1:3-14)

    01/01/2011 6:17:56 PM PST · by Charles Henrickson · 1 replies
    stmatthewbt.org ^ | January 2, 2011 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “Adopted as Sons” (Ephesians 1:3-14)It is a terrible thing to be rootless, family-less, fatherless, not having a father. I can tell you from personal experience. My father died when I was one year old, and I can tell you that growing up without a father was no fun. All the other kids had dads; why didn’t I? There was this big gap in my life. This state of fatherlessness always weighed on my mind, and I’m pretty sure it held me back in life. On the other hand, one of the greatest joys I’ve had in life is being a...
  • Grandmother: Boy terrorized adoptive family in US - Russia Furious U.S. Adopted Boy Given Back

    04/10/2010 12:24:58 PM PDT · by JoeProBono · 57 replies · 1,554+ views
    hosted ^ | Apr 10
    SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A woman who sent her adoptive grandson back to Russia says her family had intended to love and care for the boy but could not overcome his violent outbursts. Nancy Hansen told The Associated Press on Friday that the boy's episodes culminated in a threat to burn the family's house to the ground. After that, Hansen says the family put him on a plane to Moscow and paid a man to take him to the Russian education ministry....
  • US Mom Sends Adopted Son, 7, Back to Russia Alone

    04/09/2010 11:01:16 AM PDT · by marthemaria · 70 replies · 1,955+ views
    <p>A U.S. mom sent her adopted seven-year-old Siberian son back to Russia alone because she did not want him anymore, it emerged Friday.</p> <p>Artem Saveliev was taken from a grim Russian orphanage in September last year and given a new life in Tennessee.</p>