I have updated Forever Family – Forever Dead to include new information on Chase Harrison, including his original name and place of adoption. If more information becomes available I’ll add it. I have also updated information on the Jessica Albina Hagmann case. Thanks to the hard work of Niels, more is known about her death now–and the incredible decision of the judge who let her adopter walk with probation. Go here. And feel free to leave comments there or here.
Marley,
The go here doesn’t seem to be working for me.
Hmmm, Sorry. It’s fixed now It’s all a mystery.
Marley,
Any info on Global Adoption Agency, of Maryland?
Seems the owner operates an all inclusive agency,
where she does the adoptions and if there are problems she can
help there too.
I’ve ever heard of the agency.
I am asking because this woman and her associates do a bang up job of placing adoptee’s and then when it doesn’t work out she is there to “help” in that situation too. Has a lucrative business coming and going in adoption and then “helping” with those bad placements, I mean kids. Disrupted adoptions are common, if the adoptee can live long enough to get a disruption.
OUR government picks up the fees for the disrupted placements through foster care.
So we get it both ways, front and back in adoption, WE tax payers pay for it all..
Sounds like A Child’s Waiting!
From this it sounds like there will be fewer after this….
Russia bans 3 adoption agencies following baby’s death in U.S.
MOSCOW, July 11 (RIA Novosti) – Three international adoption agencies, including one that failed to inform Russia of the death of a baby in the U.S. this week, have been banned from operating in Russia, the country’s adoption authorities said on Friday.
A 21-month-old baby adopted from Russia three months ago died in the U.S. state of Virginia on Tuesday after being left by his foster father for several hours in the back of a car, in searing heat.
The Russian Education and Science Ministry’s adoption commission said in a statement: “The agencies to be banned from working on the territory of the Russian Federation include a representative office that violated the requirements of Russian law on swiftly informing us of the death of an adopted child.”
The baby, born with the name Dmitry Yakolev, was left strapped in the back seat of his foster father Miles Harrison’s car when the man drove to work in the town of Herndon. The boy was left in the car in the hot sun as the temperature in the vehicle rose to around 55 degrees C (130 degrees F).
Harrison, 49, was supposed to take the child, who he had named Chase, to a day care center on Tuesday morning but went straight to work, leaving the child in the SUV with tinted windows until late in the afternoon, when a passerby saw the child and alerted the office receptionist.
Herndon police spokesman Jeff Coulter told RIA Novosti earlier on Friday: “Mr. Harrison is in the hospital, where he was admitted in a state of shock after the death of the child. We will give him time to recover, and then we plan to arrest him.”
Coulter said no charges had been filed against Harrison, but that he would be charged with manslaughter, and if found guilty could face up to 10 years in prison.
The incident had been expected to prompt new calls in Russia for tighter controls on adoptions following several other scandals, notably the killing of a two-year-old girl from Siberia by her adoptive mother in the United States. The woman, Peggy Sue Hilt, was sentenced to 25 years in prison in May 2006 for beating the child to death.
Around 120,000 Russian children were adopted both in Russia and abroad in 2007, a 6.4% increase on 2006, according to the Science and Education Ministry.
Anon:
There was a “Global Adoptions” many years ago. I can’t recall right off the top of my head now who ran it – a real slime dog.
Of course, it could be a different “Global Adoptions” than the one I was familiar with.
E.Case
It’s taken me almost a week, but I finally managed to get a piece up about Dmitry’s death and the Russian government banning the three agencies here.
Marley, and her ongoing work, both here on Bastardette and on NIKTO NE ZABYT — NICHTO NE ZABYTO have been invaluable, a tremendous help to me in pulling it together.
Niels of Pound Pup Legacy and E.Case have also pulled together important pieces. Thanks to their excellent research and ‘maintaining of memory’ as well!
One of the things I find most interesting is how the media so far appear to have missed the ‘bombshell’ of Russia ousting the three agencies- the one that placed Dmitry, European Adoption Consultants, for breaking Russian law/not reporting the death of an adopted child.
The sad fact of the matter is that European Adoption Consultants will just continue on, working in the other countries they do placements from.
BLC:
EAC (going nuts on the abbrevations here) has been going big guns from Russia for years. It was Margaret Cole-Hughes main market and main money maker for years. Marley is familiar with them for they are an Ohio agency.
It’s not been totally and reliably established YET if EAC has indeed “been banned”. I’m checking their status now. Their website claims they have “ongoing” Russian accreditation – WTF does that mean?
EAC has branched out BIG into Guatemala the past few years. Which is no great surprise.
Thank you for your comments about the work Marley, Niels & myself have done – none of us can forget those poor souls – esp when you see the childrens’ faces up on the blog.
Anon: Adrienne Lewis – that was the name of the woman who ran Global Adoptions.
E.Case
Baby Love Child, said.
“””One of the things I find most interesting is how the media so far appear to have missed the ‘bombshell’ of Russia ousting the three agencies- the one that placed Dmitry, European Adoption Consultants, for breaking Russian law/not reporting the death of an adopted child”””
This doesn’t surprise me at all this is the way The Media in United States treats adoption.
The sacred cow, the holy grail of the world.
Maybe if Marley keeps her records and records every detail..the “media” will take notice in the meantime it business as usual in the adoption world. A truly global economy built on adopting children.
Shameful..but thats what U.S. has done it expends those who are in the way, creating, economies off of children and their mom’s they did it here, now they are doing it there. And according to those that have adopted I don’t know what I am talking about..but just maybe this will get noticed if it is carefully documented.
When adoption was in full swing here in U.S. they sealed records to protect the “innocent” lol..
If anybody believes that their head is in the sand. Just the way the adoption business prefers so it can make money of of poor unfortunate women and children.
Gale
“This doesn’t surprise me at all this is the way The Media in United States treats adoption.”
It doesn’t suprise me, either, BLC. To the USA media, adoption is a sacred cow. Problem is, that cow puts out a lot of greenhouse gases. Manure is an appropriate tag for what so many of these agencies do.
I wanted to post this here instead of on the other thread.So reposting it here.
Marley,
Those who “don’t” want to parent should be taking bcontrol!!! And if that isn’t what they want to do they should make sure they don’t parent by get vasectomies, or tubal ligs thats the way to prevent this from happening.
And our government should make sure that pharmacies, will and do sell birth control and NOT leave it up to some religious person whether he can dispense birth control according to HIS convictions!I might add this is usually a man doing this. Also, those who want bcontrol and can’t afford it should be offered it free.
the days of young people who ARE having sex being left unprotected, should be over these young adults should be have all available help to keep pregnancy from happening. The days of reaping off young women for the babies they produce should be gone here and overseas.
Oh, and while I am mentioning b control those who have insurance and the insurance won’t pay for it why are they paying or Viagra and ignoring the importantance of b control???
hmm poiticians, again interferring with…the adoption industry..trying to make sure there is enough infants for harvest. While the old guys on the second or third wives can still have some pleasure.
gale
Monday, July 14, 2008 10:32:00 AM EDT
It’s not been totally and reliably established YET if EAC has indeed “been banned”.
Indeed, Elizabeth. According to the Moscow Times, only two agencies have been banned:
Cradle of Hope
The Adoption Center of Family & Children’s Agency
According to the Moscow Times, EAC is under investigation.
It was initially reported as 3 agencies banned.
Those early reports have now been counterindicated;
Two agencies, Cradle of Hope Adoption Center and Family and Children’s Agency, have had their accredations withdrawn, and European Adoption Consultants (the agency that placed Dmitry) is currently under investigation.
No, perhaps I wasn’t clear in what I wrote, I was surprised it wasn’t being reported precisely in that adoption is such a sacred cow. Any agencies being banned is news from a prospective adoptive parent’s (PAP’s) persepective as they view it as their own possibilities narrowing.
It’s the kind of thing that gets PAPs ringing up their representatives and demanding the full force of the US government be utilized to preserve agencies’ ability to go on about business as usual. (Just look at the Vietnam petition Representatives just signed demanding business go on as usual.)
Much as I’m a Bastard- and a cynical one at that when it comes to these things- I was trying to express that from the PAP’s perspective it should have made news as agencies beging given the boot is to their eyes standing between them and their ability to get a kid.
Ability to get a kid is precisely what ‘the system’ (for lack of a better term) supports. Anything standing in the way of PAPs getting a child is usually demonized in the media.
That was why I found the lack of reporting interesting.
Anything that slows the wheels is usually picked up and screamed about.
This is exactly what keeps these agencies “open” the demand for kids, any kid, just so I get “mine” then if there are problems, from poor match, kid not performing the way I want or not able to be the kid I want. I will disrupt the adoption and complain about how the kid I got was not adoptable to many problems..
it is just so sick the lusting, after a baby, any baby so they can have one of their own. That is pathological..imo
BabyLoveChild said:
Ability to get a kid is precisely what ‘the system’ (for lack of a better term) supports. Anything standing in the way of PAPs getting a child is usually demonized in the media.
That was why I found the lack of reporting interesting.
Anything that slows the wheels is usually picked up and screamed about.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:29:00 PM EDT
I totally agree, its all about fixing me and the kid is just another way to try to do that without looking at myself..humble as I might be the perfect saint of adopters. lol
Gale