Secretive Christian Sect Coerced Young Mothers to Adopt Out Babies

The secretive sect is called The Truth or the Two by Twos. It is believed to have 100,000 members worldwide. The FBI has launched an investigation…

“Hundreds of adoptions could have taken place between 1950s and 1990s, say former members.”

There are claims of children suffering from child abuse and neglect in their adoptive families.

“Four women-who were unmarried the time-have told us they were given NO OPTION but to give up their babies to adoption. ”

“One says she was pressured into giving her baby to a married couple in the church after she was raped in 1988 at age 17.”

“The BBC has also spoken to six people given up for adoption as babies between 1960s and 1980s. One woman says she was physically and emotionally abused in her first adoptive family, and sexually abused in the second adoptive family.”

“The adopted children-born all over the US- are referred to within the church as Baldwin Babies because the adoptions were overseen by Wally Baldwin, a doctor from the sect who died in 2004.”

“Some of the women would stay at his home in Oregon during pregnancy.”

“The exact number of Baldwin Babies in unclear . The BBC has spoken to the late doctor adopted son, Gary Baldwin, who said the original records were no longer available but he believed the number is to “less than 200.”

“The church was founded in Ireland by a Scottish evangelist in 1897, is built around ministers-known as workers-spreading the New Testament teachings through word-of-mouth.”

Christian US Sect Pushed Women into Giving up Babies for Adoption
[BBC 1/31/25 by George Wright]

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