Adoption Scam in Orlando
For $792.
“Orlando police say a Central Florida woman agreed to put her unborn baby up for adoption, accepted money from an adoption agency for her expenses, but then secretly gave birth and kept the child.
Jill Ann Rader, a 39-year-old telemarketer, is facing one count of adoption deception. She was released from the Orange County Jail on Friday after posting bond.
Rader declined to comment about the allegations Friday afternoon.
According to Orlando police records, Rader contacted A Chosen Child in September requesting help with placing her unborn child for adoption.
Rader’s due date was March 10.
A Chosen Child helped Rader pay her rent, cell phone bill and sometimes gas and groceries, records said.
Oh the humanity!
On March 4, Rader called the adoption agency and asked for her rent reimbursement and a gift card. Rader became “indignant” and hung up on an office employee when she was told she would have to come into the office and sign for the items.
The next day, Rader texted an employee and said her father died and she wouldn’t be available for a while.
That’s when adoption agency employees searched Facebook and saw Rader posted several pictures of her newborn daughter days prior, records said. She “checked in” on Facebook at the hospital Feb. 17 — the day the baby was born.
Orlando police said A Chosen Child gave Rader money to help pay her rent on several occasions after her baby was born.
From Feb. 14 to March 17, A Chosen Child made nearly $1,800 in payments to Rader — $792 of that was since her baby was born.”
OPD: Woman took money from adoption agency, gave birth and kept baby[Orlando Sentinel 5/23/14 by Amy Pavuk]
REFORM Puzzle Piece
Clearly the woman took money after giving birth. This leads me to believe that she never intended to put her baby up for adoption and took the money under false pretenses.
I’m sad that there are no “widows and orphans” ministries to help vulnerable single moms and their babies and some women resort to fraud to get basic needs met.
At worse, she should repay and money she took fraudulently. She does not owe them her baby.
Anne: There ARE MANY resources for single women who find themselves pregnant and alone. I LIVE in Central FL and there are billboards EVERYWHERE offering help to pregnant women. Some are of course adoption agencies, some are churches, some are non-profits, and there are of course crisis pregnancy centers. If the woman was “smart” enough to scam an agency surely she can read a billboard and call an 800 #.
Namely,
Crisis Pregnancy Centers are often underwritten by adoption agencies… thus the “solution” offered to unwed pregnant women is to surrender the baby to their affiliated adoption agency to sell at a tidy profit.
I’m sure a lot of the other NGOs paying to advertise on billboards are likewise funnels to the adoption industry as well.