Update On Adam Herrman

Here is an age progression of Adam Herrman, the Kansas boy who was taken from his family by the state of Kansas because of minor problems experienced by his family and fostered and adopted in Butler County, Kansas by Doug and Valerie Herrman, who "lost" him in 1999, and never reported him missing. Kansas even continued to send stipends to the Herrmans for Adam for awhile. The court, unlike Child Protective Services, had a problem justifying that, though; so the money stopped and the Herrmans each spent a small amount of time in prison. The photo above is how he might look today, if he is still alive.

Reward For Tip Leading To Adam Herrman

An anonymous donor has offered a $50,000 reward for the tip that leads investigators in Kansas to Adam Herrman, (born Irvin Groeninger III) the eleven year old adopted boy who disappeared from Towanda, Kansas sometime in the fall of 1999, and was not reported missing until the fall of 2009. He was taken from his biological parents during their divorce and auctioned off by Kansas to the highest bidders, who were Doug and Valerie Herrman. The Herrmans did not report Adam missing when he disappeared; and their adult relatives followed suit and ignored the situation. While they told their relatives and friends that young Adam was "returned" to social services, it was rather common knowledge that they still received monthly stipend checks which actually belonged to Adam. We will probably never know exactly how receiving funds that belong to a child correlates with the child no longer living at address of the check cashers, but friends and family apparently did not find anything particularly out of the ordinary about all this. Meanwhile, Adam's biological parents and siblings, who were never offered reintegration, await information.

 

Another Set Of Adoptive Parents Loses A Child

Okay, where have I heard this before? A couple decides to adopt a child who has been questionably acquired by their state's child protective services, then changes their minds, and the child disappears. No one makes a missing persons report. Years down the road, a sibling, or step or adoptive sibling, reports the child missing. The adoptive parents tell police that the missing child ran away, or went to live with natural parents or grandparents. Seriously. These people took a page from the playbook of Doug and Valerie Herrman, who "lost" their adopted son, Adam Herrman, in Kansas, in 1999. In 2009, Adam was reported missing by a sibling.

Meanwhile, Erica Parsons is still missing.

 

New Law In Kansas

A new law took effect in Kansas on Monday of this week. The Kelsey Smith act, named for the daughter of Senator Greg Smith, of Overland Park, Kansas, was passed in 2009, and took effect this week. Kelsey disappeared in 2007, after shopping. She was an adult at the time, but had no history of disappearing for days at a time, and after a massive search, she was found in neighboring Johnson County, Kansas. She had been murdered.

The Kelsey Smith Act rules that law enforcement must search for any person in Kansas who is reported missing, no matter the person's age. The police cannot simply dismiss the disappearance of a teenager as a "runaway" situation and forget about it. Police were very helpful to Smith during the four days it took to find his daughter, but Smith noted that helpfulness and kindness from law enforcement during a missing persons case isn't always standard protocol in Kansas. Colton Berrera disappeared in 2008, at the age of seventeen, and was dismissed as a runaway. No one besides his close friends and family have taken a true interest in finding him. Adam Herrman is also missing; he disappeared from his foster/adoptive home in 1999, and no one reported him missing until 2009! The thought of following him up or asking about him never occurred to child protective services. And now no one can find him.

Hopefully, the Kelsey Smith Act will make a difference in cases like this. After watching progress made as a result of this law, it can hopefully become a national law instead of a Kansas law.

 

 

 

Colorado Adoptive Mother Who Misplaced Her Children Goes To Prison

This case, from Colorado, is interesting because Kansas, next door to Colorado has a very similar case. In 2000, Linda and Edward Bryant adopted two boys, Edward and Austin, who have not been seen by anyone since late 2003 or early 2004, yet, until last year, they collected various incomes from the state for each child. No one knows where Edward and Austin are, and Edward and Linda are not telling, but Colorado threw the book at both of them for fraud and theft. Edward's court date is in April of this year, but Linda was sentenced last week to fortytwo years in prison. "In her plea agreement, Bryant pleaded guilty to 4 counts of Felony Theft, 2 counts of Conspiracy to Commit Theft, and 48 counts of Attempting to Influence a Public Servant."....KRDO. To the right is Austin's age progressed photo.

In Kansas, we have a couple of lovebirds named Doug and Valerie Herrman, who did the same thing with their adopted son. In 1993, they adopted Adam, and some time during the fall of 1999, they "lost" him. They told the rest of their family one untrue story, Adam's biological family another untrue story, and never once bothered to inform the state, when they got Adam's stipend checks, that Adam was no longer living with them. They also never filed a missing persons report with the police. They also never cooperated with law enforcement in any of the efforts to find Adam, which took place in 2009, when Adam's biological sister finally discovered he was missing and reported it. To the right is Edwin Bryant's age progressed picture.

Doug and Valerie Herrman initially entered a plea of "not guilty" to charges of theft and fraud. They changed it to "guilty" when it looked as though they might lose, in a trial involving a jury of their peers. They also thought they would avoid going to prison if they admitted that they are disgusting thieves. Their lawyer had it all worked out, too. But then they learned the hard way, a day or two before court, that judges are under no obligation to accept a guilty plea. He sent Valerie to prison for seven months, and Doug to prison for nine months. He was quite outraged about Adam. But here's the thing: how can two states that are so close together have such different penalties for the same crime? Shouldn't Doug and Valerie Herrman stay in prison for fortytwo years, too?

Adam Herrman, and an age progressed picture.

Stalling Police Investigations Is Good Behavior In Kansas

Adam Herrman was born in June, 1987, taken away from struggling parents for undetermined reasons, and given to known child abusers by the state of Kansas before he disappeared in late 1998 or early 1999. Despite the fact that Adam's dad, who lived in another state, wanted him, Kansas refused, without a solid reason, to give him his child, and proceeded to adopt him out to people who lived in an already overcrowded trailer and had criminal records. In other parts of our great nation, people with criminal records are screened out of the adoption process and not used as foster parents. Why is Kansas taking children away from parents who do not have criminal records and giving them to families who not only don't have space for more children, but don't obey the law? Ah......the rhetorical questions!

 Adam was not reported missing until 2009, when one of his biological sisters stood up to a cursing and screaming Valerie Herrman, the adoptive "mother" and insisted to know her brother's whereabouts. When the information was not provided, and it became clear from the testimony of other members of the Herrman family that Adam had not been seen in over ten years, Adam's sister reported him to the proper authorities as missing. After about two or three years of futile searches for Adam, the prosecuting attorney in Butler County, Kansas, decided to charge both Valerie Herrman, and her husband, Doug Herrman, with theft, because they never stopped collecting the stipend for some physical problems Adam may or may not have had. They thought they would avoid prison by copping a guilty plea, and the attorney we pay to keep scum like the Herrmans from interacting freely with the rest of us simply accepted it. But Judge Ricke, of Butler County, did not accept it and sent the pair of lovebirds to prison, anyway. Sadly, he could not try them for anything connected to their adopted son's disappearance, as the charges that were brought against them were merely for theft and embezzlement. He still deserves credit, though, for putting them away as long as possible. That was only seven months for Missus and nine months for Mister.

So why is Missus Herrman out of jail, already, if she went away on August 1, of last year? According to this, her cellulite covered body parts got out of jail on January 27! There are people who go to jail longer just for stealing candy bars! And the same article tells us that Mister might be out of jail as early as March 20, for "good behavior"! Now; in other states, "good behavior" involves cooperating with police investigations. Both Valerie Herrman and Doug Herrman failed to alert police or Adam Herrman's natural siblings when he first went missing, then they refused to cooperate with law enforcement after someone else reported him missing. They haven't even given the FBI a timeline of events describing the last day either of them saw Adam. Perhaps I have misunderstood Kansas, but isn't this an ongoing investigation until Adam is FOUND? And until some useful testimony is proffered by either of the Herrmans, how can we give them credit for "good behavior"? Their testimony is key to an ongoing missing persons investigation!

If Missus Valerie Herrman was truly exhibiting "good behavior" in a legal sense, Kansas must not really be making any serious efforts to find Adam Herrman.

How Long Will It Be Legal To Kill Children In Kansas?

Mireya Carmen Ortiz Rodriguez was only twenty months old in August, when her dad's girlfriend, Johana Iveth Villegas-Gonzales burned her skin so badly it peeled off into a sink and suffocated her. This happened right here, in Kansas. Kansas also accepted a plea for voluntary manslaughter for this, so Villegas-Gonazales will only spend between fiftyfive and sixty months in jail. That's obscene. The deliberate MURDER of a defenseless child only gets five years in prison, here in Kansas? I guess in Kansas, murder of a child is practically legal. The person or persons responsible for misplacing Adam Herrman, who disappeared from Towanda, Kansas in 1999, and was not reported missing until 2009, apparantly have nothing to worry about. When will Kansas begin to value the lives of children?

Mireya Carmen Ortiz Gonzales. Rest in peace; I wish I could have been there to prevent this.

The Price Of Child Abuse

On January 20, 2009, a little girl in Oklahoma, Naomi Whitecrow, died of injuries consistant with child abuse. The person found responsible, Amy Holder, was found guilty in court and....dig this......fined $5,000 for it. That's amazing.......for a mere $5,000, one can buy the right to murder a child in Oklahoma. One other amazing thing, that is very telling of even bigger problems in Oklahoma, is this article, from KFOR-TV, describing some of the outcry for this. Not once, in several paragraphs, does the aricle state that Naomi was in foster care. Yes indeed.......a FOSTER PARENT, righteously chosen by Big Brother, murdered a small child. But why would KFOR-TV ignore this fact in reporting? It seems rather pertinent to this blogger. Anyone remember Adam Herrman, just a few miles north, in Kansas?

Is Oklahoma protecting child "protective" services, or is there are there people who just don't matter as much in the Midwest as others? I, for one, would be interested in an honest answer.

Cold Case Of The Week For Terri Horman

It's Monday, already. That's the day when I count on Terri Horman, our favorite defacto kidnapping suspect, to google her name on the internet and eagerly click on anything new she finds that someone has written or posted about her. Since I am reasonably sure she does this, I like to comment on one cold case a week that has been solved, against all odds, just to give her something to think about. Today, I think I will deviate from my pattern of describing a solved cold case, and talk to Terri about one that isn't solved. That way, I can get double mileage from one post...........because I think Adam Herrman deserves to mentioned once again.

So..........here it is, Terri....in 1999, eleven year old Adam Herrman, of Kansas, disappeared from his adoptive parents' home and was never seen again. The twist here is this, he had natural parents who really tried to prove to the court that they could care for him, and he had siblings who wanted to see him, too. Social Services in Kansas just didn't care. They terminated the natural parents' rights and cut off all contact between this little boy and his natual siblings. Then, the adoptive "momster" began to abuse him. It was abundantly clear to many family members that Valerie Herrman did not feel the same affection for Adam that she did for her own children. Does that sound familiar in any way, Terri Horman? One thing that really bothers me about the adoptions of children snatched by social services in Kansas is that many of the adoptive "parents" appear to do this "adopting" for a stipend from Kansas, rather than for charity. When Doug and Valerie Herrman reached a point at which the stipend no longer balenced out the inconvenience of bringing up Adam any more, Adam disappeared. They told family members that they had given Adam back to social services, and even though they were still receiving monies for Adam right in front of everyone's faces, no one questioned them about the boldface lie. Doug and Valerie Herrman are lucky I was not around, because I do not drink the same koolaide that everyone else in Kansas seems to drink, and I would have called the authorities.

One day, in 2005, Adam's natural sister wanted to see him. Valerie never told her that her brother was missing, but harshly told her not to ever call back. In 2008, when Adam would have been age of majority, she attempted to contact him again. This time, she realized that Adam was missing, and reported him as such. Kansas was pressured to find Adam, but they couldn't. They still haven't, either. One thing they did do, and it took over two years, was charge the Herrmans with fraud. Their attorneys had it all worked out with the court, too. They initially pleaded not guilty, but changed their plea. They had a deal worked out, featuring only paying part of the sum they stole from Adam back to the state, and some community service. I, and quite a few other people, were outraged. If you read my blog, you probably know this. A few days before their last court date, which was for sentencing, the judge made an interesting announcement..........he rejected their plea and had decided to send them to prison! They were under the impression that just because their lawyers had made a deal, the court HAD to accept it. They were wrong. It falls extreemly short of finding Adam, or putting them in prison forever for making Adam disappear, but I think this is something you should really think about, Terri, because the judge even stated that what happened to Adam was a big part of his decision. Seriously. And they are in prison now. So Terri...if you end up on the "defending" end of anything in court, and you still don't wanna cooperate with police and help reveal Kyron's whereabouts, do you think a court might feel the same way about you? There have been way too many missing children, nationwide, lately, and many Americans are sick of it.

 The pair of monsters who will not let their adopted son's real family take him home. Mrs. Monster appears to be crying some fake tears. Do you think the tears are for Adam? Or for her disgusting self?

Adam Herrman, as a child, and in an age progressed photo. And; finally, Kyron Horman, who disappeared from his school on June 10, 2010, and still needs to be found and come home.

Browncrack Is Doing What He Does Best

....................Sigh. Once again, Governer Browncrack is doing what he seems well adapted to doing here in Kansas, attacking womens' healthcare in the name of religion. Somehow, it pleases an imaginary, white bearded, sandal wearing genie in the sky to try to limit contraception, prenatal vitamins, and other healthcare to women. Only today, the Supreme Court decided not to play his game.

According to WIBW, Aug. 18, "A federal judge won't suspend an order blocking Kansas from denying Planned Parenthood federal dollars for non-abortion services while the state appeals his decision." The more I read this, the more it looks like a really stupid game, played by conservatives, at which the ultimate losers will definately be women and children. Brownback does a lot of fake public praying, but the rest of his actions, particularly cutting budgets for schools and children with disabilities, suggest that the fake prayers are nothing more than fake.

Once again, Governer Browncrack, I will reiterate this to you: if you pay more attention to education, especially of girls, and do more for the economy in Kansas, so that these girls who see nothing more to life than getting knocked up will have futures and careers to which they can look forward, instead. Your imagined problem with abortions in Kansas will be even smaller than it is now. And it's a very small problem .......I don't know how you succeed in getting so many people riled up about it. And................I will stop calling you Browncrack if you will put your character where your legislation is and adopt a disabled child. I may not agree with everything that comes out of your mouth, but I will treat you with a little more respect.

What happens to these children whose parents cannot care for them, anyway, Browncrack? Are you familiar with Adam Herrman's case? Sometimes, people should simply have the means to plan a family instead of having a family just "happen". Where do you suppose Adam Herrman is now, anyway? If he isn't dead, I doubt that he ended up in a place that is safe and happy. Could he have been trafficked? Is that why you don't want birth control available to lower income women, here in Kansas? What a creepy, sinister thought......but hey, when I see government officials "fake pray" in public, that's the kind of stuff that goes through my mind.

                                                             Governer Browncrack

Who's he in bed with, concerning all of his fake prayers in public and foolish legislation, anyway?

Video Of Doug And Valerie Herrman Getting Taken To Jail

http://www.ksn.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=2715321

Finally, a clear video of Doug and Valerie Herrman, the couple who adopted Adam Herrman and "lost" him in 1999 without bothering to report it, having their day in court in Eldorado, Kansas. I hate people who engage in crime and think they can get away with it almost as much as I hate people who make children disappear. I also hate people who think they have special "rights" to commit crimes against children. Maybe next time these monsters are in court, the judge can sentence them for whatever they did to Adam.

Look What Went To Prison Today

Waaaah..........Waaaaaaaah......Boohoo......Sob..........Waaaaaaaah! Yep. This social services approved pair of foster/adoptive parents went to prison today. Sadly, it was just for stealing money from Adam Herrman, not for making him disappear. But who knows? Maybe someone in the judicial system of Kansas will work on building a case against this good, Christian, SRS approved pair of monsters while they sit in prison, unable to disappear.

You got it, Hussy! You're going to be spending some time in the pokey! The only truly sad thing about that is that Doug Herrman is only going away for nine months, and Valerie is only going away for seven months. But............if someone actually does know what happened to the adopted son, Adam, perhaps he or she will come forward, seeing what happened to the Herrmans. Or; perhaps seeing that Kansas has grown some balls, not big ones, but balls, will help to convince whoever knows what they did to Adam to come forward. Maybe cellmates and fellow prisoners can help with this, too.............I wouldn't mind if someone's sentence for possession or trespassing got shortened for "helping" one of these two creeps remember what happened to Adam.

Tacky behavior for the courtroom. And trust me, Mr. and Mrs. Herrman, no one really believes that either of you is actually capable of love. Ya never know; you may never get to strike a pose like that again.

Now, for a cuter picture, this is Adam Herrman, as a child, and in an age progressed picture. Here's more information.

Adam Herrman's Adoptive Parents May Spend Time In The Pokey

Remember any of my former rants about this couple?

Well......as it happens.....hopefully.....Doug and Valerie Herrman will go to jail for stealing money from their adopted son, Adam Herrman, while he's been missing since 1999, instead of the court accepting their plea agreement. The judge thought that the mysterious disappearance of their son, along with their ten year failure to report his absence, while cashing checks intended for him every month during that time, was a factor that really set this case apart from others. I have to agree.

Perhaps while sitting in jail, they will remember more details about what could possibly have happened to Adam. Hopefully, they will get no special treatment, and spend their time with the rest of the prison populations where they are housed. How often can it be surmised that a fellow prisoner actually meets someone who has never been incarcerated before, but has been sentenced to the maximum for a first offense which happened to be theft, and is also strongly suspected by the community of being responsible for the disappearance of a helpless child? If I were Doug or Valerie Herrman, I would start talking about Adam's whereabouts very soon. That may be the only way those two can be separated from the rest of the prisoners for their own safety. Well......maybe being locked up won't be that bad for them, but it seems like it will certainly serve them right.

I really hope, after the Casey Anthony trial, that the prosecuting attorneys in Butler County, Kansas put together an airtight case against Doug and Valerie Herrman when they finally have the evidence and statements lined up. I am very encouraged to see Kansas finally begin to send a message to those who would harm children in their care.

Unresolved Questions

In the wake of the Casey Anthony trial, and the ongoing search for Kyron Horman, I am not surprised to hear about Kyron's Law, concerning the reporting of children who are absent from school without written excuses, and Caylee's Law, about reporting missing children. Then I read and hear what Jaycee Dugard has to tell all of us about her situation. There were sixty logged visits from probations officers to the Garrido residence, where Jaycee was hidden in the backyard and various buildings on the property, and no one could see three young ladies who did not belong there. And........there were clearly laws against Mr. Garrido having any children in his home. What is it going to take for all of us to start opening our eyes and using common sense?

Among the mistakes by state parole agents who supervised Garrido from 1999 until his latest arrest in August was a failure to investigate why there was a 12-year-old girl inside the home of a registered sex offender, why "clearly visible utility lines" were running from Garrido's home to a concealed compound where he allegedly kept Dugard and why agents took no action when they received information "clearly showing Garrido had violated his parole terms."

That was a quote from the above linked article, and it seems like a no-brainer. Especially the part about utility lines running from the home to a concealed compound. We didn't need psychics with crystal balls; we needed eyes, ears, and common sense!

Kyron's Law is excellent wisdom. I sincerely hope it helps in the future; but, if I had been teaching his class that day, and noticed his backpack and other personal effects in the classroom when I started to teach, I would have insisted that he be in the classroom with them! I would have notified the office and had someone call his parents. Of course, in the event that this was planned by his stepmother, she would probably not have helped, but at least some notice would have been taken before six or seven hours had elasped. Along with Kyron, I fervently pray that common sense is found very soon.

And I cannot forget about Adam Herrman, although his adoptive parents probably would have, had they not been convicted of theft of monies intended for him and forced to pay a small fraction of it back to the state of Kansas. Caylee Anthony was not reported missing for thirtyone days; Adam Herrman was missing for ten years before anyone reported him missing. His case has not generated all of the outcry that Caylee's has. No one has even charged Doug and Valerie Herrman of a crime in connection to Adam's disappearance. It's almost as if it were legal to lose a child in Kansas. As a parent, I would normally not think that there would need to be a law about reporting missing children in a timely manner, but ten years is a long time. I had no idea that people like Doug and Valerie Herrman even existed outside of horror movies or very isolated true stories until I heard about Adam Herrman. Yet..........here in Kansas.......they abound and thrive, taking advantage of every taxpayor funded resource they can get their hands on, with social service's blessing. Yes; I guess we need some federal laws to protect children.

Here are Doug and Valerie Herrman, the two people who thought Adam Herrman, their ADOPTED son did not matter to anyone. After never looking for their son, not even once, after he went missing, they go to work every day, unharrased, and no one incessently demands that they disclose Adam's whereabouts. They even reportedly got nasty on the phone with Adam's biological sister, telling her not to ever call back or ask about Adam again! That's how firm they are about their God-given right to "lose", or dispose of, a child, here in Kansas. Below is Adam, how he looked before he disappeared, and how he might look now if he is still alive. There is more than enough testimony from eyewitnesses and former victims of their abuses to children in the past for our judicial system to look a little harder at this. I do not agree with the citizens here in Kansas who are simply letting Doug and Valerie slide in this one. I do not agree with Kansas that Adam is not important. He is to me, just because he was a little boy who deserved love, and certainly deserved  better than Doug and Valerie Herrman. I really want Kansas to try harder to find him, and try harder to bring Doug and Valerie to justice. This probably won't happen as long as everyone feels that the situation is just "ok". It's not "ok" with me.

Here is one more unresolved question, for the road: where is Kyron Horman? Here's his picture, one more time.

Caylee's Law

Call me naive...........I actually thought it was the law, already, to report a missing child in a timely manner! But if it isn't, then it is about time it became a law. But it has to be a very easy-to-understand law, that federally applies, in all 50 states and all territories. And the time limit for reporting something can definately not be thirtyone days, as in Caylee Anthony's case; ten years, as in Adam Herrman's case, or even six or seven hours, like what happened with Kyron Horman. And here's something else......who counts as a guardian? If a teacher sees a kid's backpack and jacket still in the classroom, and he has not been officially signed out for the day via the office, is the teacher, or someone else at the school, in a "guardian" position and legally responsible to report the child as missing? And....what if the teacher already KNOWS the child is missing? But still wants to look for the child himself, and "not get the police involved"? See http://siriunsun.blogspot.com/2011/04/child-safety-and-kansas-schools.html

I think we all accept that reporting Kyron Horman as missing immediately would have helped greatly in the effort to find him. I know we all accept that Caylee Anthony should have been reported as missing way, way before thirtyone days went by. And a few of us die-hards who feel that EVERY child is important feel that Adam Herrman should not have had to wait ten years for anyone to look for him. I will be interested in seeing how this law is enforced.

More on the subject.

Question For Kansas About Missing Persons

Earlier this month, a car was dredged up from Lake Shawnee, in Topeka, Kansas. The car had a 1984 Wisconsin sticker on the liscence plate, which had otherwise rusted and deteriorated. It turned out to be a 1976 Olsdmobile. There also turned out to be some human remains in it.

After a certain amount of deliberation, it was determined that the car had, indeed, last been registered  in Wisconsin in 1984. The owner turned out to be an 84 year old man, named Leonard Jordan, also the owner of the remains. And, a missing persons' report had been filed for him in September of 1984, when he originally went missing. Not only in his home state, but in Topeka, where Mr. Jordan had family. So......Kansas should have been able to detemine immediately, upon finding the remains, who it was. The only problem is that in 1986, something quite anomolous with reality happened in Kansas. (imagine that!) Based on "information", his info was deleted from missing persons reports, and Kansas is saying that Mr. Jordan's sister told them he had been found. Well.......unless she went diving, there is no possible way!

This is all Topeka is telling us about it:
"According to Blume, Jordan spent much of his time going back and forth from Wisconsin to Topeka, where his family lived. His sister reported him missing. "We were able to locate a missing person report filed with the Topeka Police Department in 1984 for Mr. Jordan. But, although, in 1986, based on information Mr. Jordan was taken out of the system for missing persons." His sister had indicated to TPD her brother was alive and well so the missing person report was rescinded."

This brings me to my question for Kansas: when a person is reported missing, at what point IS the person taken out of "the system"? Does Kansas need proof that the person is found? Or can anyone claiming a connection to the person simply call and say that the person is "alive and well"? Is there a need to verify this information with either a positive ID, if deceased, or an actual conversation accompanied by any identification available if the person is living? Kansas needs to ponder this question and find an answer.

After reading everything I have read about the case of Adam Herrman, the little boy who went missing in 1999 from Towanda but was not reported as missing until 2008, as per this story, and a missing person who had been reported properly yet still not looked for, as in Leonard Jordan's case, it is starting to look as if there is a grave problem in the way Kansas handles missing persons cases.

Newsflash Adam Herrman Update

Well. Court on June 21 of this year for the Herrmans, those wonderful, Christian adoptive parents approved by Kansas Social Rehabilitative Services, has been called off. Doug and Valerie Herrman went ahead and copped a guilty plea. They will pay restitution of $15,000, after stealing over $50,000 of Adam's money, and pay a $2,500 fine. Wow. Theft and embezzlement must be legal in Kansas. They didn't even have to discuss the last time they saw Adam or try to help locate him as part of the deal. I realize that this is how "things have been done for years and years" in Kansas, and that this little boy did not really matter to anyone in the community, (he matters to me, though........I will be up front with everyone about that!) but doesn't he still have rights? Such as the right to be looked for when missing? Or the right to his parents or adult siblings when the state's crappy foster care arrangements don't work out? Oh....I keep forgetting......no one knows better than the state...........where's the eye rolley when I need it??

Here is the information about today's plea from Doug and Valerie. The sentencing is on August 1. I may still go to that, since Adam's story moves me, and I feel that Adam deserves to have a mother sitting in court just for him, even if it is not his own mother. I am hoping that his own mother will be there for him, too, along with the rest of his natural family. I also want to make one more thing clear with my presence: it is NOT acceptable for Kansas to just allow foster and adopted children to endure abuse after abuse in these good Christian, approved homes and families. And it is NOT acceptable for foster and adopted children to go missing or turn up murdered at the hands of these so-called "parents", I don't care how long Kansas has "done things that way" or how cultural it is here! I intend to write a letter to the Butler County, Kansas State's Attorney, as well, to inform them of my dissatisfaction with the way this case has been handled. At that time, I will also share it with you, on this blog.

Here is a picture of young Adam Herrman, and an age enhanced picture.

Adam Herrman Update

How did I miss this? It's an article stating that Doug and Valerie Herrman pleaded not guilty to the charges of fraud and theft, for collecting monies for an adopted child who was missing and not reported missing for over ten years. The court date is June 21 of this year, and I am considering being there for it. Here is the article, complete with a picture of Kansas, SRS approved slime, who were wonderful foster and adoptive parents.

Now; if only SRS had chosen foster parents who wouldn't mind giving the rest of us the whereabouts of Adam Herrman.

Adam Herman, Missing For Eleven Years From Kansas

http://www.kansas.com./adam/        

This is a story about a child who went missing in 1999, and was not reported as missing until 2008. His name is Adam Herman, and his adoptive parents collected a stipend for him, as if he had not been missing, from 1999 until 2009, when his sister finally insisted that the adoptive parents quit giving her rude and evasive answers (a la Kansas Christian "rightousness") to her periodic questions about his welfare! Had I known that sisters were not supposed to love their brothers and care about them in this crummy state, I never would have moved here. In my world, this is not acceptable. These foster/adoptive parents were not up to standards that would have enabled them to adopt of foster children in most of the nation. Relatives of these monsters actually knew that Adam was not being cared for and often being abused, as well. Why didn't they report it? I don't know. I will not pretend that I have never seen child welfare ignored in other places, but Kansas seems to be the Land of Putting One's Buddies' Interests Ahead of What's Right. I am outraged.