Well, it’s early Saturday morning and just when I sit down to write about one of the major events of the last week, we run headlong into yet another example of events moving faster than I can blog.
Last Thursday, as a result of actions taken by the State Department, numerous media outlets reported that the [...]
It’s taken me a few days, but this post has been brewing for some time now.
Baby Jean or Baby Jenny’s journey makes for a kind of a real case study in just how much of the South Florida child care system has been outsourced to a variety of religious subcontractors, and how despite how these [...]
The kids the New Life missionary scavengers attempted to bus from Citron and Calebasse to the Dominican Republic have been staying in an SOS Children’s Village since January 30th, the day after the aborted child export attempt on Jan 29th.
Today news came that the kids will be returned to their families. According to the release [...]
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC’s) Foreign Correspondent programe did a special report on corruption in American adoptions from Ethiopia last Autumn which featured Christian World Adoption Agency (be sure to note that CWA’s Founder, Tomilee Harding, is a former President of the Joint Council of International Children’s Services):
Fly Away Children, Broadcast: 09/15/2009
In Australia, due to [...]
(Blog housekeeping note- Doing multiple posts today, please read down through my previous post as well.)
An important new development out of Haiti today, Laura Silsby, “Executive Director and Founder” of New Life Chidren’s Refuge and its botched “Haiti Orphan Rescue Plan” (link opens a PDF) is facing an additional charge tonight.
She is already facing kidnapping [...]
As I wrote last Friday, see Charisa Coulter’s release papers signed, Silsby becomes a useful scapegoat, it was clear her release would most likely happen today.
Not exactly surprising, especially considering her medical condition.
(How insane do you have to be to be diabetic and yet run off to a post earthquake disaster zone where access to [...]
Been meaning to mention this here for a few days now.
By way of a brief refresher overview on the Rendells’ Raid, readers may want to refer back to this piece from my earlier post Haiti series- “It is madness. It is insane…” Bribes, Bullies, and Traffickers extract kids, Part 4: Kids not in an adoption [...]
Has this whole spectacle of the New Lifer’s arrests in Haiti and the ensuing international incident taught the people involved any kind of lesson, led to any form of remorse (other than their remorse at being caught red-handed), or dissuaded them from their current intended course of actions?
Apparently not.
By way of keeping this post short [...]
I wanted to highlight a comment I just received to this post as it brings out some of broader themes I’ve been trying to find time to write to.
The Wall Street Journal article Teresa references below concerning Laura’s Silsby’s apparent previous attempt at building a complex in Kuna, Idaho for runaway youth via Idaho contractor [...]
It has been apparent for some time now that the “New Life Children Refuge” Laura Silsby and the teams in Haiti and the Dominican Republic were working on didn’t just magically spring into being.
It was a project built upon church networks, and supported financially by churches and the members thereof.
In this post, I’m going to [...]
