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Nebraska- The Michigan dumped kid was an adoptee, NE ‘return to sender’ dumps him back into the MI System

This is the latest in a series of posts I have done criticizing Nebraska’s legalized child abandonment laws. You can find my earlier posts via my Nebraska tag. *** No blogger could begin to keep up with the mess Nebraska legislators have made. Instead, this post will focus on some of the raw sources dealing […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on October 19th, 2008
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Adoption subsidies for frozen corpses, more on the Maryland nightmare

This is a follow-up post to my initial post on this story, read Maryland- 3 adopted daughters; 1 beaten, 2 dead, frozen in freezer for 7 months first if you haven’t already. *** Today more details are emerging. The Washington Post article, Md. Mother Jailed After Bodies Of 2 Children Found in Freezer, for example, […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on September 30th, 2008
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Maryland- 3 adopted daughters; 1 beaten, 2 dead, frozen in freezer for 7 months

By way of the Washington Post article, Calvert Woman Arrested in Deaths of Two Children: Authorities said they found what appeared to be the bodies of two children in a “drop-in” freezer Saturday in the basement of Renee Bowman’s home on Buckskin Trail in Lusby. Sheriff’s deputies had been searching the house for evidence in […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on September 29th, 2008
Tags: 11 year-old, 7 year-old, 9 year-old, 911, abuse, Adoptee, Adoption, adoption blogging, adoption related abuse, animal abuse, autopsy, barefoot, beaten, block of ice, bruised, Calvert County, child abuse, child selling, children's hospital, cruelty, dump laws, education, extreme abuse, flea infestation, follow up visits, foster adoptions, freezer, frozen, haves and have nots, Hero, homeschool, ice, Indian head, inequities, interantional adoption trade, isolation, kidnapping, kids come first, legalized abandonment, locked in, locked out, Lusby, Maryland, Maryland my Maryland", Montgomery County, murder, Nancy Sears, neglect, Phillip Garrett, placements, poverty, prisoner in her own house, public schools, Renee Bowman, responsibility, Rockville, rural, schools, search warrant, siblings, social services, Southern Maryland, starvation, study in contradictions, systemic failure, systems of prevention, wage gap, Washington D.C., wealth

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