Updates on Allison Quets

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Lisa has written another blog entry talking about Allison Quets’ situation with the abduction of her children, the challenges she faced while being pregnant and ill, as well as her continued challenges. Check it out!

 

Spotters

I am reading the book, “The Baby Theif: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann the baby seller who corrupted adoption” and learned the term Spotters.

Spotters are the people who would seek out women who were poor, and would report back to Georgia Tann. The family would become a target, and they would do everything possible to steal the children. And they always succeeded.

Edward Hull Crump, the mayor in Memphis TN, and the Juvenile court judge, Camille Kelley were in Georgia’s back pocket, and approved all of the kidnappings and sales of children that she completed. Kelley also went around to orphanages and was a spotter, taking down names of marketable children. Georgia made tons of money for children who prior to her marketing, people couldn’t give away for free.

Georgia was also the woman who made exploiting children as a means of selling a product (themselves) popular. A Memphis reporter, Ada Gilkey needed a subject to fill her Christmas story articles. Being a time of the depression, Georgia deemed the newspaper a good place to place children in the newspaper. Every day was a different picture of children, with very demeaning phrases such as…

“Want a real, live Christmas present?” (12/9/1929)
“A present guaranteed to add two fold to the joy of the holidays? Well here’s your chance, for 25 children ranging in age from three months to seven years will be presented to as many lucky families this Christmas Eve…”

“Could you use a Christmas baby?”
“Which of three infant boys will you have for Christmas?”
“Living dolls [three baby girls] for YOU.”

and so many more.

The spotter who saw me was Phi Nyugen, who was my daughter’s pediatrician. This doctor is related to Stephanie McDonald, (maiden name Nyugen) who worked as a Director of Operations at the JFCS (Jewish Family and Community Services) for which Kathleen Stevens, the “social worker” who accompanied Shorstein in my hospital room while I was drugged up in the hospital. They saw I was from out of state and on Medicaid and presumed I would be an easy target. They were right. While drugged up in the hospital, I was easy prey forcing me to sign relinquishment papers, as they would not leave my room until I had done so. This has been common practice since Georgia Tann started, dating back to the 1920’s. Still common practice today.

I hate adoption. I hate Georgia Tann. I hate the Shorsteins and Kathleen Stevens. They are a bunch of child stealers. Their intent, to prey on the weak and vulnerable, and make a profit by selling babies and children.

 

Allison Quets

My friend Allison is a great wonderful brave and very strong woman. She has been going up against the Shorsteins & Co. for almost three years now.

This is Her Story and you can sign her petition, to hold the guilty parties accountable for their fraudulent conduct and to ask for an investigation to return her babies to her.

I have known and worked with Allison for a couple of years now, and she has been through hell and fire to get her children back. She is a very capable woman, a professional woman, and had unforseeable complications during her pregnancy and shorty after which left her vulnerable to the wolves of Shorstein and Co.

Please support her in whatever way you can.

 

How did you get here?

So, the neat things about seeing what people search, is that it reminds me of some of the things that I have written in the past.

ohhh look! I’m so glad you found me by searching
heatherrainbow heather rainbow (my loyal visitors from Jacksonville Fl, ie Shorstein country)

florida adoption situations
I’m here. Ask if you need anything. I know lots of people in Florida Adoption Situations. Ask away.

samuel “buddy” shorstein florida
Oh yeah. I remember when I did research on this person. See posts: Shorstein Posts. Look under The Shorstein Family.

kate and gerry mccann and madeleine mccann
I hope that she is found safe soon. I hope you found my article, and were able to find the Mccann site.

angela jackson
Sorry! I’ve been slowly putting all of my posts back up. I had this article in my unpublished categories. It is published now. Here is the details of that story: Angela Jackson recovers two sons abducted to Texas from Scotland

“rose firestein” new york
I hope you were able to find my post: Children’s Rights Joins Statewide Class Action Lawsuit , of which Rose Firestein is a part. Also be sure to check their web site: Children’s Rights as they are a national organization.

shorstein and shorstein

Maybe you are looking for the accountants? There are a whole shlew of shorsteins in the business of Law and Accounting. See posts: Shorstein Posts. I hadn’t realized this wasn’t in my category lists. I updated it just for you. Look under the Shorstein Family.

michale shorstein adoption fl

See previous. But, it is Michael Shorstein. If ANYONE Ever visits here, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, if you want to find out more about Michael Shorstein, leave a message. I know lots of people fighting him. Leave me a message. I will not publish it, but I promise to respond.

one family left in vietnam 2008 waiting

I am not sure what the family in Vietnam was waiting for. If it had to do with adopting a child, I hope that the family was able to stay together. See Sume’s blog regarding how it feels to be adopted from Vietnam.

gladney adoption lawsuit

Yeah. We all would love to have lawsuits against the agencies who stole us or who coerced us. I hope you find a lawyer to take your case. I’m not sure of any lawsuits pending against Gladney. But don’t ever give up. I know there are protests against Gladney every year. I’d suggest going to that and seeing if you can find people who have started a lawsuit. I’m sure it wouldn’t be in the papers if it were. Agencies and lawyers have a tight grip on media. If you find out anything, feel free to stop by and leave a note. I’d be happy to publish it. Also, there was recently an article of a woman, Maria Barragan who was kidnapped from Argentina, who pressed charges against the lawyer and kidnappers (abductive parents) and they were put in jail.

 

Adoption Kool-aid? Me??

One of the advantages of short term memory loss, is that I actually don’t remember having spewed out the raspberry red kool-aid that had been injected into my IV while in the hospital.

My situation was obviously coercive. Lawyer (Michael Shorstein) and Agency Director (Kathleen Stevens) coming into my room the day after my daughter was born, not leaving until I signed papers, and not taking no for an answer.

“But, I want to keep my daughter”

“I do not know any services available to allow you to do so.”

“You need to pick an adoptive family, who are financially and emotionally stable.”

Financially, yes. Emotionally stable? FAT CHANCE.

Even so, because I received a picture here and there for three years, I would say that I “chose” adoption. That, really, this was the best for my daughter. Even though there was strong evidence that her adopters were liars and crazy. “Yes, we’ll call you from the hospital when we pick her up, and you can say goodbye” – direct lie, no phone call ever.

In 2002, when my baby was just four, I was spewing the kool-aid crap to my current partner. Of course, he even realizes that the reason why… was because I had to believe it. Because I had to think of them in good light, so that I might get another picture. If I showed any sign of being not grateful for adoption, they might stop.

But, like the abusers story, the reason they stopped had nothing to do with me, and everything to do with them. Because, they are liars and abusers.

And, even though I received nothing from them, between 2001 and 2004, still I had hope. And, when the agency found them in 2004, and I received an album from them, in April, my daughter’s birthday, I had a sinking feeling in my stomach. I knew they had never meant to keep the adoption open. They did not respond to any of my questions, they continued to evade the whole, “I want to make you comfortable, how often would you commit to sending me pictures and updates” question. They just paraded about how smart my daughter was, what her favorite color, food, and so on was. I knew it was superficial. But still I tried…

And when I sent them a letter again in the fall of 2004, and Kathleen stated, “I’m sorry, Heather, they moved again. I’m unwilling to search for them again. Dana is obviously insecure, and does not intend to be in an open relationship.”

That was when I vomited up all of the kool-aid, and began my crusade against the adoption industry. Starting off, with helping my friend Allison Quets to fight against them to try to get her babies back. Because, Shorstein had coerced her, too.

Update: My daughter doesn’t even know she’s adopted. Her parents are getting divorced, and her “adoptive mother” is over-controlling, objectifying all of her relationships, and my daughter has become her cheerleader. They still refuse to respond to any of my requests for updates or visits, because the adoptive mother wants to keep the illusion that she gave birth to my daughter.

 

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I am LIVID

So… I got my scarf and hat in the mail along with a necklace. It is missing my papers. It is also missing the letter I sent back in December of 2004.

I am pretty Pissed off about that.

More ways the system is forever lying and fucking with us all.

I know… I shouldn’t be surprised. But it still makes me angry.

It’s ok… I have dated documented proof now that I am asking for these things and not receiving them.

Note: They said that the aparents did not receive the December 2004 letter, because it stated returned to sender. They said they were sending me everything in my file. I get why they wouldn’t be sending the adoption papers… ie, they are afraid of being held accountable and responsible… but because they did not send me the letter I sent to the aparents… makes me think that the aparents DID get the letter.

 

Forever Waiting

Oh Yeah… and I have been trying to contact the agency the past couple of weeks to get my scarf / hat back and also my adoption papers.

So, I have K’s email address from the agency. And, so I hadn’t received or heard back from her. So, I sent an email yesterday? and got a response today (it may be an automated response system) saying, “I will be out of my office until April 18″. I’m about to go down there and pick it up out of the office myself. GRRRR.

FTS. FTFF. FEA.

 

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