This is sort of a part II to the update I did last night, “News- End of June articles relating to Enna’s death- lots of new developments.” The inclusion of these three articles brings my coverage up to date. Torres pleads guilty in stepsister’s death Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, July 2, ‘08 Marraina Torres pleaded […]

I’ve been following the details in the aftermath of Enna’s death closely. For new readers, or readers in need of reminders, take a look at my earlier writings on Enna, and Bastardette’s “Mississippi: of Puppy Mills and Baby Mills — If you can stomach it!” The below represents a final round up for a last […]

Just a belated brief round up of three more articles relating to the upcoming Lisa Novak trial. Those unfamilar with Novak and Claar will want to explore my earlier writings about the coverage to date to get up to speed. Novak faces another felony June 17th, ’08 Daily Camera Novak pleads not guilty June 20th, […]

I wanted to point readers at an article from last month’s Denver Post- International adoptions lead to broken dreams (June 18th, 08.) The article uses the backdrop of the Lisa Novak and Claar Foundation trial to talk about broader trends in international adoption, the changing nature of the adoption industry, and contains a number of […]

On June 25th, those who had been involved in the Evan B. Donaldson Institute’s (EBD’s) Dec. ’07 “For the Records National Conclave” in NY received an e-mail from Susan Hicks, EBD’s new “project administrator” on the Institute’s open records project. Yesterday, Bastard Nation responded to the Evan B. Donaldson Institute e-mail from Ms. Hicks with […]

Since certain people are running around falsely insisting BN ‘pulled out’ of the Adoptee Rights Demonstration BEFORE the fundraising done by Abrazo Adoption Associates came to light, a micro-timeline appears to be in order to set the record straight. In the following, I am basing this timeline on events from the organizer’s list, no doubt […]

(Just a micro backgrounder post on some of the older stories on Lisa Novak.) A timeline of articles (12 stories linked, dates range from February 17th- June 2nd) and two earlier stories on Lisa Novak’s arrest: Ex-Erie trustee arrested in adoption agency probe March 27, 08 Police arrest former adoption agency owner March 27, 08

Mere days ago, two to be exact, I said the following in this post, ARD- This morning’s Adoptee Rights Demonstration webpage update and what the loss of BN means, speaking of the current state of the Adoptee Rights Demonstration with the mostly new set of organizers going forward (I’ll quote at length because it has […]

New readers should first look to my earlier coverage on Enna’s story for a basic backgrounder:Enna, oh Enna! aka When animals outweigh a dead Guatemalan ‘adoptee’. 5/24/08 and Enna & her ’siblings’, where did they all come from? 6/3/08 Yesterday afternoon (6/6/08) news of the older sister being charged in Enna’s death back on May […]

Today is a sad day for those who care about Bastard access to our unaltered Original Birth Certificates. Ron has his statement up. He too, is no longer involved in the Day for Adoptee Rights (/Adoptee Rights Demonstration.) Again, I advise people go read it in full. Sadly, the fight for open records itself has […]