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I do have one question about this case. Having now read a lot more about it. (I did a search and read everything that came up) From what I read, these people were treating thier other children badly all along. People coming to a Bible study at thier home before the adoption seeing a child left out in the cold with no coat in the winter as punishment, etc.
Were those bio children not interviewed as part of the homestudy? Mine were and for our first adoption, this upset me because they were so young. Now I am kind of glad, because that meant the social worker had a much clearer picture of us as parents. I think had the social worker interviewed those children - at least the teenagers- she might have gotten a better picture. It sounds to me like the kids were raised in church so would have shown distress if asked if thier parents ever spanked. (Assuming the parents had coached them to lie if asked that)
Of course it's also sad to me that people hear more about the cases like this and not about the thousands of happy adopted kids who are not abused!
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