FacePalm Friday
Welcome to this week’s edition of FacePalm Friday.
This is where your hosts will list their top picks for this week’s FacePalm moment—something they learned or read about this week that caused the FacePalm to happen (you know, the expression of embarrassment, frustration, disbelief, shock, disgust or mixed humor as depicted in our Rally FacePalm smiley).
We invite you to add your FacePalm of the week to our comments. Go ahead and add a link, tell a personal story, or share something that triggered the FacePalm on the subject of child welfare or adoption.
Your Host’s Selections:
(1) 5 hour energy pays megafamily to be spokespeople
Homeschooling Bethany clients. Five children from Korea, 2 from Liberia, disrupted , and domestic adoptions
Currently parenting 11 kids aged 2 to 13 and they ONLY go through 2 gallons of 
per week because they drink mostly water?!?
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2013/08/fenton_family_1.html
“”We only go through about two gallons of milk a week,” said Kim, adding they’re more water drinkers than anything else. “We buy oatmeal in 50-pound bags.””
“The state has no known record for the largest number of children adopted by a family, but does do an extensive assessment of a family’s ability to meet the needs of children when a family goes through more than four adoptions or has more than six kids living under one roof, said Dave Akerly, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Human Services.” 
(2) UN-STUCK from Guatemala
http://fox4kc.com/2013/08/15/stuck-no-more-daughter-brought-home-from-guatemala/
From the previous article in April “For years, Cindy and her sister Caterin were living with their biological parents, and living with constant abuse. Then Dawn and Dorsey Embrey saw the girls and knew they wanted to adopt them. The Embreys filed the paperwork and not long after, they found out Guatemala may be closing its doors to foreign adoptions.” 
Something is 
in this story…
(3)Haiti endless loops with 2011 independent adoption
2011 was when it was announced that independent adoptions weren’t going to be allowed, but official proclamations didn’t stop this family from doing it anyway. 
(4)Fundraiser of the week: Reece’s Rainbow two at once 
170 million orphans; fundraising $37,000; already have 1 biological healthy and 1 bio special needs child aged 3 and 4 and can’t tell the Eastern European country
http://www.connecttristates.com/news/story.aspx?id=936124#.UiFHaD9U2Sp
Mud Volleyball 
(5) Double Bethany facepalm
Rep. Bachmann on Bethany podcast
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/7030172648.html 
How Orphans Profit from profitable companies (But Bethany gets the $)
http://blogs.christianpost.com/every-child/how-orphans-profit-from-profitable-companies-17563/ 
(6) 12 Things I Wish Everyone Knew About Adoption
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wymsel-/dear-friends-of-waiting-adoptive-moms_b_3795132.html
It’s all about me on steroids! 
(7) Duck Dynasty/new adoption shillers
How does a Taiwan exchange student become a foster child?
“The oldest of the kids and also newest member of the Robertson family is Rebecca. She is a foreign exchange student from Taiwan who came to stay with the Robertson’s and the family fell in love. Eventually Willie and Korie became Rebecca’s foster parents.”
Something very fishy 
about these 
(8) Hat tip to a reader
The fundraising Reece’s family who was awarded $900,000 from a school district. 
5 at once from Bulgaria. Now another 3 at once for a total of 18.
http://www.wsaz.com/home/headlines/4253911.html
http://reecesrainbow.org/?s=unroe
https://www.facebook.com/ThreeMoreForTheUnroesChristmasAuction
Rally’s bonus facepalm on this: The article says that the AP’s right to privacy was violated 
yet the APs violate their referral/match’s right to privacy on a daily basis.
APs who resort to brute force to get their wayward adopted kid to submit to each and every one of their demand:
“So we are all thinking – this sounds good but how do you “make” a 16 year old or any child for that matter do something they don’t want to do. The integral part of this plan is what they call 24/7 3 foot rule and “Safety Time” This is the crux of the program. It is helping the child to become dependent so that they can become independent. He taught us that when the child is no longer compliant and the situation is getting out of control you do a therapeutic safety hold. We were trained in Crises Prevention Intervention and taught how to do this in a correct way where no one gets hurt. AHHH, saftey time gives us the control”
http://merrittfamilyadoption.blogspot.com/2013/08/families-that-no-longer-feel-safe-in.html
Even Adeye Salem has given up on Reece’s Rainbow:
“About a year ago I noticed something awful happening in the community that I love—the community of people who are called to adopt, foster, and who go to great lengths to bring home precious children.
I sat at my computer late one night reading threads on public forums and groups. Through tearful eyes I wondered, I questioned, and I felt so absolutely heartsick.
One family was in the firing line (Higbie family). So very publicly!
One family was betrayed and slandered by the very people who were meant to come alongside them in support and unending encouragement (no matter what!)”
http://www.nogreaterjoymom.com/2013/08/extremely-urgent-let-god-arise.html
You may recall Diane Higbie’s family managed to spend $70k before even embarking upon Trip #1 to adopt a now-unadoptable Russian girl, Lera… and had no way to earn the $6k needed to adopt illegally pre-selected, 3 older Ukranian teens by early September:
“As far as the mountain of money we have gone through to continue to fight for L, in that I agree. Our total to date is $71, 726.51. That total is mind-boggling. We have paid, and paid, and paid…We are emptied every bank account, retirement account, every college fund set up for our other children, our savings, and we have sold most of what we own…and we have a few amazing friends who have help us financially to continue this fight. Every penny of that has been paid out to agency fees. We do not expect to see one penny of the FSP that is held for L. At this point we remain $8k short to make our first trip, but we are confident once our current paperwork is submitted and reviewed we will be invited to travel and given the opportunity to accept her referral. When that happen, the funds will be there. We know God’s got this”.
http://savinglera.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-scoop.html
“As Bob (Higbie) and I come down to the wire, we remain in great need financially. Without your help we will not be able to complete the adoptions of our children who are waiting. Children who face a grim future without a forever family. Children who have already spent many weeks in our home. Children who have already said “YES” to our offer of adoption…
…We have no back up plan. The battle has exhausted our financial resources. We are to travel very soon. We do have dates and invitation to travel. I cannot release exact dates but will as soon as I am able to. Our family needs to ensure that our children are safe and there is no further interference in our process.”
http://arecklesslove.blogspot.com/2013/08/urgent-plea-down-to-wire.html
Wow I hope the Higbie family sues Reeces!
Ironic how they use the adjective “reckless” to title their blog.
The Unroes already have 18 kids (17 adopted with significant special needs) — once they get 3 more Bulgarian kids home they’ll have 21 (!!) kids.
Mr. Unroe travels a ton for work, so Amanda Unroe is home alone with ALL the children most if the time. 18:1 and 21:1 kid to caregiver ratio is significantly worse than the conditions in a not great Eastern European orphanage (1:12 or 1:15 is the norm) or even an American group home!
Does that number 18 include the 2 that died?
As far as I can tell there are 18 kids living in Amanda’s home — ages/names listed on the right:
http://godsrainbowsinourlives.blogspot.com
I have NEVER had any children die. I don’t mind the numbers bashing. Go for it. I don’t need you to agree with my large family or our adoptions. My husband also doesn’t travel out of town for work and we are both always very involved with our family. I really don’t care about that either. Yes, all EIGHTEEN live at home. There have NEVER been any children die in our family. No idea where you came up with that one. . . Wowsa! You criticize, but my 3 coming home are coming from where Keith came from. You can call it “caregivers”, but they obviously don’t give the same “care” as a mother. http://godsrainbowsinourlives.blogspot.com/2013/08/so-much-to-update-and-so-little-time.html . Keith is proof of what love and family does for a child. Matthew still lives there and is 10 and 20 pounds. . . http://godsrainbowsinourlives.blogspot.com/2013/08/my-trip-to-my-three-meeting-matthew.html I don’t need your approval, but NOT ONE child has died here. You must be on the wrong adoptive parents!
Thanks for clarifying the numbers. It was very unclear from the post I read.. perhaps you were speaking of other children who had died due to their medical conditions in the same orphanage. I didn’t want to overestimate the number of children you actually were parenting. The only reason I looked at your blog was due to the very displeased PAP who sent me the links to your information. Funny that the number of children is the only thing that concerns you, not that your community is not happy with you. Thanks for articulating your superior caregiving,too.
I really don’t care about others opinions. I know how well cared for my kids are and that is what matters. I just hate complete and utter mistruths. Deaths in adoptive homes are often from abuse or neglect or said to be from that. I take that serious. We have all of the children that we have adopted here with us.
Whatever else you want to say about our family size is I guess your crazy opinion. I’ve addressed the bull about our 17 children via adoption children having “significant” special needs before and that bull continues to be spewed forth. It is offensive to my children, but I’ve already addressed it prior. It is also untrue.
Not going into it all again.
Carry on, but thank you for acknowledging my “superior caregiving”. If you look carefully at the progress of my children you would see it is much superior to an orphanage or institution, but I don’t guess you want to fully acknowledge that.
No biggie!
Crazy opinion on how it is not in the best interest of 18 special needs children to have another 3 added. LOL. Thanks for making me laugh today!
Amanda’s in Bulgaria at the moment visiting the 3 new kids — one of her existing daughters is headed for surgery and all she wants is for strangers to give her CASH:
http://godsrainbowsinourlives.blogspot.com/2013/08/have-heart-giveaway.html?m=1
Amanda,
Re: “…You can call it “caregivers”, but they obviously don’t give the same “care” as a mother…”
No matter how much love and worry you feel in your heart, the part of love kids feel is in the attention and nurturing you give them. That takes time and energy, neither of which is an inexhaustible resource. The patience, creativity and insight needed to parent traumatized children and integrate them into your family is dependent on your ability to remain alert, calm, and mindful. You can’t do this if you’re stressed out and exhausted– which goes back to time and energy.
Based on what experienced parents say, it’s impossible to know for sure what issues your internationally adopted child will have until you get them home. Nor do you know how easy or difficult it will be to deal with these issues, or how long it will take to resolve them.
That’s why adopting multiple unrelated children at once is such a bad idea. How can you know if you have the physical, emotional, and financial resources to carry the load on top of your current commitments, if you can’t know exactly what your newly adopted kids will require?
Fascinating (and totally biased towards the APs) story on Max Shatto’s death:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/us/widening-ripples-of-grief-in-adoptees-death.html?pagewanted=all
The Shattos ought to investigate the Shattos pediatrician, who prescribed risperadone (!) to Max who’d been home all of 2 months (!!) — and failed in his mandated reporter duties by failing to report the fact he was covered in bruises to CPS.
Carlee,
If the Shattos turned over video of Max engaged in self-injury to the police, why wasn’t this referenced in the autopsy report? And why would CPS still be doubtful if they’d seen video of Max self-injuring?
This cute little article doesn’t mention Laura Shatto’s own admission that she grabbed Max by the neck with both hands and shook him. She CLAIMS it was an attempt to revive him; I find that an extremely unlikely response to “finding your child collapsed unconscious and unbreathing”.
That Dr. Bruce Eckel declined to be interviewed is telling.
I have updated the Shatto post https://reformtalk.net/2013/02/18/how-could-you-hall-of-shame-russian-adoptee-max-shattomaxim-kuzmin-case-child-death/ and posted the pdf and excerpts of the autopsy. The video camera did NOT record things according to the official autopsy report. Other excerpts show that this article is lacking in facts. Is it disheartening to read all of the comments that support the adoptive parents as nothing in Laura’s story adds up.
I am not a RR fan but let’s make some things a bit clearer on the Higbie debacle. First off Diane Higbie raised those funds for Lera on a premise that she needed it within like a month. Adeye blogged it and the money was raised. Did Diane use it in a quick manner? Nope she claims issues out of her control yet several families were bringing their children home. All the time hosting teenagers from Ukraine claiming to be financially sapped from the pursuit of Lera. Also in that time promising to adopt three teenage girls yet she was only approved for 3 children so how was lera going to fit in that plan? Now it seems it won’t be 3 girls but rather 2 and a boy. Prior to the ban on Russian adoptions when asked Diane claimed she had a referral to go to Russia and a lawyer to help her with the adoption and even gave a supposed date which never happened. She expected the money to be released for Lera and use it on her adoption in Ukraine. That is what I think. Course if you ask her you will get plenty of biblical answers but no facts or clear responses.
Here is one kicker that gets me of these new RR families.. asking for donations for medical costs incurred when coming home. Sorry but I knew going into our adoption that we could and would incur medical costs. Not once did it occur to me to ask for donations. Such as this family http://grumpyjax.blogspot.com/2013/08/medical-update-on-boys.html
“The doctors all asked if I had a medical background because I research everything they say my kids have and use all available resources.”
So the time between meeting child in Bulgaria to gotcha is a couple of months or so did she not research prior to coming home? She goes on to end,
“I encourage everyone to set up appointments as soon as you have an idea when your child may be home. I am so relieved to know what all is going on and get these boys the help they finally need.
Also, if you feel so led, I may need to accept a few donations for this first month worth of medical care….. The amount we have already spent on special foods, car seats, strollers etc is a ton…
I kinda thought we would have a little time to catch our breath, but not so much.”
She encourages appts right away but didn’t anticipate there would be costs to these?
I’m no fan of RR (or fundraising for adoptions, frankly) but based in the info posted on Diane’s old blog and Rebecca Johnson’s now-private blog, the Higbie’s raised the $35k for Lera, had an appointment with the MOE in hand (point at which RR should have released the funds) but never did, so the Higbies weren’t able to travel to Russia to formally pick up their referral.
The funds, according to RR’s own policy, should have been released to the Higbie family:
“Funds from our grants are available to you after you have been invited to travel by the foreign officials, and are exclusively available for international adoptions. Qualified uses for these funds would be airfare, agency fees due at that time, in country expenses, and other related expenses. Funds are NOT available to help with upfront costs such as home study, USCIS, notary/apostille, mailing, translation, dossier submission, initial agency fees, etc.”
http://reecesrainbow.org/new-family/family-sponsorship-program
Wow you guys lack intelligence. I did know there would be costs. However, both my sons have conditions not known or anticipated which incurred extra fees. Don’t worry though we did not need any donations so no worries.
@proudmom: You CHOSE to adopt 2 boys from Bulgarian orphanages where they did not receive adequate medical treatment. You BEGGED for thousands of dollars from STRANGERS on the Internet so that your family could “save” boys who’d otherwise “die”. Your argument was that you could afford to raise the boys but not the “ransom” to rescue them!
What on earth possessed you to think there wouldn’t be a need for extensive treatment for both boys? How did it not occur to you as you met two tiny, malnourished boys who’d received almost no medical treatment that maybe, just maybe, NOBODY EVER BOTHERED TO DIAGNOSE THEM PROPERLY ?!???
proudmom,
Aren’t “unanticipated conditions” pretty much to be expected in an international adoption? Shouldn’t your budgeting take that into account?
Diane Higbie raised that money on the premise that they needed it in like a months time and Adeye rallied and they raised the money. That was in like March 2011. Her delays were of her own doing and when the agency no longer would work with her she told everyone it was RR fault rather than her own paperwork mixups. Then she claimed last year before the ban that she had a referral and would be attempting to go to Russia with a private attorney. Again she stressed urgency and kept putting back the date until surprise there was no date. Now the ban makes it convenient that RR screwed up her adoption because they did not release the money for them. Not to mention during her supposed spending of 70 plus thousand for Lera’s adoption she was hosting and promising adoption for 3 girls. Now it appears it is 2 girls and one boy. All the while having multiple blogs for whatever day the wind blows. My opinion she dragged her feet.. even to the point when she could have traveled and delayed it because it was her farms planting season.. she never planned on getting her and hoped the funds would be released for her new adoptions.. How can one get approval for 3 children and yet plan adopting 4? I am certainly not a fan of RR but let’s get to the bottom and find out the truth before standing behind Diane Higbie.
Gotta love PAPs who are unwilling to spend $18k of money they EARNED to adopt an illegally pre-selected and photolisted on RR kid, but are perfectly okay with making other people do it on her behalf. The advertised “perks” of being a warrior for this utterly irresponsible family zipper pulls and discounts on their tacky fundraising tshirts:
“And, yet here I am again asking for your help. In one way I’m hoping that if this idea comes to fruition I may actually have to bug you less! I’ve been praying and asking for God’s guidance in what our next fundraising effort should be and this is the first idea I’ve felt peace about so I guess we’ll see where it goes…
50 Warriors for Ian
I’m asking for 50 people (or couples, families, groups etc) to commit to help us raise $300.
If we can make this happen that will equal $15,000 (!!!) of what we need to bring Ian home and should have us fully funded after the other fundraisers we have in the works end.
How It Works
*Just tell me that you would like to be one of 50 Warriors for Ian.
-You can do this as an individual, a couple, a family, or a group
*I will mail you a packet of information. I am still working on these but they will include things like prayer cards for you and to give to donors. A newsletter about our family and our son that you can keep and use. And, other fun things that I’m working on!
* Get creative
-You can of course donate the money yourself or from taking up donations among your family and friends. The goal is for us to reach people outside of our circle of family and friends.
-You can do your own fundraiser at your church such as a bake sale or spaghetti dinner and easily make the $300. If you are local our family would be happy to attend your church event though I can’t promise much in the way of speaking though I can try if you’d like.
-You can save your change. Did you know that a water bottle filled with dimes = $100 save your change from now till Christmas and you may be surprised what you have.
-Get your kids involved. People love to buy crafts, baked goods, lemonade, or any thing else from children working towards a cause.
-Sell 30 of our tshirts. We have a long sleeve option coming up soon as well. You can point people towards our blog and/or I will include an order form in your packet. Also, see ‘Perks’ below for more on this! Link to blog on tshirts here Selling 30 shirts would make $300
**These are just suggestions! You most likely have a group of family, friends, co-workers, church members, parents, that don’t know us or our story. Even if someone you reach out to chooses not to help you’ve still advocated for orphans! You never know what that seed you planted might lead to!”
http://walkingthenarrowpathnow.blogspot.com/2013/09/50-warriors-for-ian-part-2-become.html
So now people who are not members of their church should go to their own churches to raise money for them! And get children involved too!And also ask co-workers!Yes, risk getting fired for soliciting money from coworkers for someone else’s adoption. Riiiiiiight! Wow, the depths these people will go now. I think they will be planting a seed…just not the kind they think.
Name,
There’s something strange about that blog which makes me suspicious. There doesn’t seem to be anything on it but fundraising– which is a direct gift to the PAPs, with zero accountability. Though she mentions Reese’s Rainbow repeatedly, there’s no link to RR about the child she’s trying to adopt, which would give SOME assurance that she’s legit. She just wants us to give her money in blind faith that she will use it as she claims.
Also, she defends fundraising by comparing it to taking out a student loan to pay for college. Uh… no, begging people to GIVE you money isn’t the same as taking out a loan that you’ve committed to paying back over time. Which raises the question of why the PAPs simply haven’t taken out a loan, rather than demanding strangers pay for their adoption.
The photo she shows of her would-be child could be any Caucasian boy anywhere. The wood paneling in the background of the header photo seems an odd choice of building materials for a state institution.
Maybe she’s on the up-and-up, but the whole situation seems very hinky. I certainly wouldn’t give her money.
I found out that Diane Higbie actually did a second homestudy after completing her first one. Her dossier was in Russia and she could have gone to get Lera. Later on she did another homestudy that wasn’t even qualified. She ruined things for herself. She is unstable.
Also, the agency that she used shut down.
Oh look, Adeye Salem advocating for an about to age to out Chinese girl:
http://www.nogreaterjoymom.com/2013/09/because-nothing-is-impossible.html
Love it when PAPs use the donations they receive to purchase the prizes for their probably illegal lottery-style fundraisers:
http://iwillcometoyou-john14-18.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-great-big-giveaway.html
The family needs $28k, isn’t able or willing to earn any of it!!
I know the “PAP” personally and also know that a large company donated MANY of those “prizes. I’m not seeing anywhere on their blog where it states that she is buying them out of pocket…. enlighten me?
I do not know what ill informed people are giving out information on this site. I am the grandmother of the 18 children of Amanda Unroe’s. FIRST OF ALL NONE OF MY GRANDCHILDREN HAVE DIED!! 2nd Evidently you don’t know anything about either my daughter’s whereabouts or my beautiful grandaughters surgery. ALL 18 OF MY GRANDCHILDREN ARE LOVED. IF God chooses to let those of you throwing stones feel the physical hunger and loneliness my babies have felt it would only be deserved. HOWEVER I fear you will only know it in the hereafter when you would have no chance to apologize for you hurtful lies. I WASN’T GOING TO RESPOND TO YOUR CRUEL LIES BUT AS A GRANDMOTHER AND MOM I THOUGHT IT WAS MY RIGHT AND DUTY.
She has already clarified the quantity, so take your medications and calm down. I can see where your daughter gets her superiority complex from…now YOU are God and condemning us to Hell. Wow! That is a new low.
Look at what Reece’s Rainbow’s very own Shelly Bedford is getting involved in! Guess she’s got tons of time re-homing the many MANY many disrupted RR kids – enough to start a new non-profit it bulgaria!!
“Since the babas work on a part time basis, their salaries will be uncomplicated in contrast to the full-time staff members. There is no reason those ten babas couldn’t be in place in a very short time if we all pitch in and help raise the funds. More details will be in a future blog post.
To meet the immediate need to get qualified babas and other staff members in place quickly at the orphanage, the donations will go through About A Child. About A Child has 501(c)3 status to collect funds for projects at orphanages, wholly separate from and unconnected to adoptions.
At the same time, Shelley Bedford is in the process of completing the paper work required to establish 501(c)3 status for a new non-profit in order to fund and organize the other projects at Pleven”
http://theblessingofverity.com/2013/10/the-pleven-project-two-contests/
Carlee,
Hey, don’t knock it– she’s trying to fund providing care to kids in their own country, INCLUDING services that enable birthparents to raise their own special needs children. How is this bad?
I volunteered at the same orphanage for three years every summer. Its a horrible place but the babas are a great support to the kids there, I have seen how some of them have really developed through having a baba. But as theres already a charity funding babas at the orphanage, why is Shelly Bedford setting up a new non profit when she could just suggest people donate to the existing non profit – sounds very suspicious to me?
Janet,
Re: “… But as theres already a charity funding babas at the orphanage, why is Shelly Bedford setting up a new non profit when she could just suggest people donate to the existing non profit…”
Excellent point. I hadn’t considered that.
Neither the BBB Wise Giving Alliance nor CharityWatch has anything on ‘About A Child’. Charity Navigator lists an unrated charity by that name out of Redwood City, CA– and it’s NTEE Classification with the IRS is “Adoption”.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=200969860#.UyDn4IW24Zk
Re: “… But as theres already a charity funding babas at the orphanage, why is Shelly Bedford setting up a new non profit when she could just suggest people donate to the existing non profit…”
Ding ding ding!!! We have a winner!!! Here are the indisputable facts:
1)About a Child is a licensed international adoption agency.
2) Shelley works for About a Child ( see http://www.aboutachild.org/Staff.php ).
3) Shelley Bedford and her merry band of cohorts (Colleen Novit and Amanda Unroe, to name a couple) have their hands all over The Pleven Project, which is collecting funds to pay the salaries of babas, therapists, etc.
4) Donations to The Pleven Project are being routed through the adoption agency….can you guess? About a Child.
5) One of the Bulgarian NGOs About a Child works with is called The Dreams Foundation. NGOs are assigned files of Bulgarian orphans so their adoption agency counterparts can find adoptive homes for them.
6) The Dreams Foundation has been scouring the orphanages (especially Pleven) for information on children who might be available for adoption. This is NOT how Bulgarian adoptions are supposed to work.
Does anyone else see a major conflict of interest here? Personally, I believe the relationship between Shelley Bedford, About a Child, The Dreams Foundation, and this so-called Pleven Project to be highly unethical and inappropriate. The entire relationship borders on incestuous in nature, in my opinion.
Here are two of my concerns…feel free to add your own if you wish…
1) Adoption agencies who stand to PROFIT from adoptions should not be involved in making charitable donations to orphanages who might feel coerced into making sure that agency was given the first option of viewing the files of available children. Again, this is NOT how adoptions in Bulgaria are supposed to work.
2) Where is the financial accountability? How are donors to The Pleven Project to be assured their donation $$ are actually being used to hire babas, therapists, etc, when the money could just as easily be lining the pockets of the ones collecting the donations? Again, when the adoption agency and/or its paid representative is responsible for the funds’ disbursement, isn’t that arrangement similar to allowing the fox to guard the henhouse?
At any rate, I for one will not be contributing to The Pleven Project in any way, shape, or form. There are other charitable organizations doing amazing work in Bulgarian orphanages who would be much more worthy recipients of my donations.
Shelly Bedford also used to re-home disrupted Reece’s Rainbow kids on the side, quite a lot of them. Including her son Emmet!