The Hague Convention And Kansas Christians

Lisa and Don Jenkins, of Topeka, Kansas, decided to purchase a few more children. This time, they wanted to buy some young people from another country. They prayed about it, as per the practice of their church, and decided that a couple of Ukrainian children would be just the ticket. So they bought their tickets, and off they went, because; according to friends and churchmates, "god" had told them to adopt Ukrainian. While they were in that country, all hell broke loose, and Congressman Pat Roberts, of Kansas, had to place a phone call to the Consulate to inquire about the safe return of the Jenkins family. Northland Christian Church also set up a fund, to bankroll their extended stay in the Ukraine, merely to wait for passports for their newly purchased human beings; and used local news stations, such as WIBW, to promote this shameless "beg for bucks" effort.

At surface levels, international adoption seems innocuous enough. In certain instances, it can be a wonderful arrangement. At other times, such as when Dr. Timothy Monahan and his wife, Jennifer, bought a kidnapped and trafficked child in Guatemala and refused to return her according to the court order from Guatemala, international adoption can be shady, black market in nature, and a very sad form of human trafficking. The only way to protect all parties, natural parents, adoptive parents, and children, in any adoption is to make sure the laws in all countries and states are followed, and to pay attention to all of the details involved. Anyeli, the little girl held hostage by Dr. and Mrs. Monahan, of Missouri, has a mother whose life has been shattered because of kidnapping and human trafficking, and she will never get her child back because the Hague Adoption Convention had not been signed by Guatemala until 2008, and Anyeli was kidnapped and auctioned off in 2006.

Fast forwarding to 2014, the Hague Adoption Convention is up and running, and has been signed by eighty-nine countries. Ukraine is not one of them. As such, it is a country where an improper adoption, possibly resulting from a lack of agreement by both biological parents, a kidnapping and illegal sale of a child, or falsified medical history can fly under the radar, and no affected party is guaranteed recourse of any kind. It is both odd and interesting that Lisa and Don Jenkins have chosen to adopt Ukrainian under those auspices, and that their church, Northland Christian Church, has used local media to snow the public into thinking that these people are "doing something wonderful" and to send money to them! Au contraire! If the Jenkins family were truly concerned about children, why did they deliberately choose a country for their shopping pleasure that had not signed the Hague Convention? And why wasn't Northland Christian Church open about this? It is certainly legal for the church to support their members in adoptions that are legal, provided; of course, that they are in fact, legal; but when the church decided to publicly beg for bucks for this effort, instead of advising their parishioners to simply come home immediately, shouldn't they have included the information that the Ukraine has not signed the Hague Adoption Convention? And WIBW does not mention the Hague  Convention, either. A phone call placed to WIBW produced a conversation with a station employee who was unaware of the Hague Adoption Convention, the Hague Convention, or the general legal issues surrounding adoption and focusing on the best interest of the child.

Luckily, the Jenkins family converged upon Kansas International Airport on Saturday, no worse for the wear. From the outside looking in, though, their choice to adopt in a country that has not yet taken measures to protect the best interests of any child in an adoption proceeding seems a bit suspect. Hopefully, everything is fine, and the adoptions involved are all above board, but Northland Christian Church should not ask the public for donations without proper explanation of all the facts, and WIBW should have done more research about international adoption and human trafficking.

A Troll In Defense Of Human Trafficking

Tonight, we accepted the referral of Luis Carlos, born New Year's Day at 9:40 pm to a twenty year old birth mother. He was 7.8 lbs and 19.7 inches long.

You are definitely going to be Charles Brayden, after your father. You are beautiful and ours--not to hold and love right now, but to pray for your safety and your future.

We love you already little one. Be warm and loved tonight. Sleep sweetly in Jesus.

The above is a comment from a profile connected to a comment that came to this site about this post. The post is about a kidnapped and trafficked Guatemalan child named Anyeli Rodriguez, whose return to her natural parents was ordered by Guatemala, despite the fact that a well-off couple in Missouri paid good money for her, and, no doubt, have every intention of getting their money's worth. While the comment sounds very warm, fuzzy, and cute, the reality of kidnapped, bought, and sold children is horrible. The comment came from someone who obviously defends Tim and Jennifer Monahan's unlawful actions of holding Anyeli against her will, and the complicity of the United States government, despite a court order from Guatemala for her return.

Adopted children often have little, if any family history for health records.  Testing for medical problems that are hereditary is often prohibited by insurance companies, unless the patient can prove a family history of the medical problem in question. Colon cancer can be diagnosed and treated, even in the absence of actual cancer, (yes...it almost happened to yours truly!) while celiac disease is simply not considered because of unnaturally inflated costs associated with testing for it. What's an adopted child to do? There are also a couple of types of anemia that are hereditary, and very serious. Unfortunately, plump Anglo-Saxon types, such as the Monahans, who continue to hold Anyeli hostage, cannot possibly have experience with them. Thalassemias are a group of anemia types that typically run in Mediterranean and Ashkenazi Jewish families. Once in awhile, the problem will be encountered in African bloodlines, as well. Sickle cell anemia runs in African bloodlines, and is not well understood and not expertly treated in the United States. A child trafficked from another country, from a misrepresented or unknown ancestry can present with symptoms that may never be properly diagnosed if the adoption of the child is black market. This is cruel, and as a physician, Tim Monahan should know better.

What about the parents, older siblings, and other family members of kidnapped children, such as Anyeli? Do they desrve no consideration? Americans often take the stance that black market adoptions involving foreign children are okay, despite their shady and unlawful nature, because upper middle class Americans typically have more money than poor, third world parents. Is this a reason to assume a parent does not love his or her child, and arbitrarily kidnap the child? Do money and middle class American, materialistic goals truly replace love, and a child's heritage?

To discuss the human trafficking aspect of this case, and to get to the real reason this bible thumping black market adoption supporter is truly scary, here is the comment, followed by two points to consider:"While you are certainly entitled to your opinion on the subject, maybe you should not reveal this child's personal information in such a public forum. This further compromises her situation, making her even more vulnerable-- and by extension, you and your community face further threat, which is one of your main concerns."

Why shouldn't we reveal Anyeli Rodgriguez's personal information? The Guatemalan government reveals her personal information. The only purpose that will be served by not revealing this child's personal information, and the personal information of every other known kidnapping victim is the safety of the perpetrators. Why would a bible thumper call for protection of human traffickers? And why do bible thumpers see fit to make the rest of the world more hostile to Americans by trafficking human beings? Remember Laura Silsby,  after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010? Americans seem to provide a market for trafficked children. Laura Silsby spent some time in a Haitian jail for her crimes, and when witnesses spoke out about what she was doing, the only people who were compromised by revealing the personal information of the children involved were Laura and her band of merry Christian human traffickers! As for Anyeli's situation, the United States seems vested, somehow, in allowing her captors to keep her from her family and her country. It's possible that she will have to read about her own case, or see a picture of herself on missing child posters. Of course, the people who bought her, the Monahans, could always opt to keep her from ever getting online or re-learning Spanish, her native language, until she is eighteen. How will she feel, as a young woman, if she meets her REAL mother, the one who searched and searched for years, never gave up, and cried her eyes out every night because her child had been stolen? Is that the kind of thing that instills loyalty in an adopted child bought from human traffickers? Think about it, christian adoptive parent. And don't buy your children from Kmart, or from anyone who circumvents the law.

 

Dr. Monahan Bought A Kidnapped Child And Won't Give Her Back

"I think you need to do some more reading. There is every reason to believe that the child in Missouri is NOT Loyda's missing daughter.".....This was in response to this post, concerning the black market purchase of a little girl from a shady Guatamalan human trafficking ring.

In 2008, a Missouri doctor named Timothy Monahan, and his wife, Jennifer, bought themselves a little girl in Guatamala from a group of black market thugs. This little girl, Anyeli Rodriguez, had been kidnapped from her biologiacl parents, and the police in Guatamala were looking for her everywhere. Her face was on missing persons posters all over her home country. Then, in 2010, little Anyeli was traced to the Monahans in Missouri, and DNA testing was carried out to confirm her identity. The child that the Monahans were in the process of whitewashing (she is Guatamalan) and calling "Karen", is, indeed, Anyeli. So the courts in Anyeli's country determined that this adoption was not legal, and that Anyeli must be returned to her natural parents. The only problem is........the Monahans are American, rich, and white, and have simply decided to ignore the court order from another country. Yep. Oh...they MUST be better parents......they are white Americans! They can naturally have anything they want, that money can buy; even other peoples' children. They also apparently bought themselves a court decision here in the United States that says they don't have to give the little girl back, because the Hague Convention did not have an agreement with Guatamala at the time Anyeli was kidnapped. That came two years later. And so they contend themselves to hold Anyeli hostage, lying to her about her own mother, while her own mother suffers. Trust me, Jennifer Monahan....it does not matter how much money your prisoner's true mother does or does not have; she loves Anyeli more than you ever will.

The comment also deals with reasons why Anyeli is not Loyda Rodriguez's child. Yet, no reasons are given. And the comment came from the same part of the country where Lisa Irwin disappeared, and where Anyeli is being held hostage by Dr. and Mrs. Monahan. It appears that a "finders keepers losers weepers" modicum has been applied in this case, leaving a tearful mother to pick up the pieces, advised by the good doctor and his wife to just forget about her baby! So I guess that's the biggest reason why Anyeli is not Loyda's baby, since the DNA states otherwise.

DNA matchups. Kidnapped kids. Finders keepers losers weepers. In an interview with the Monahans that took place in 2011 with CBS, after they ignored the court order and were declared in contempt of the court that ordered Anyeli back to her native country and to her parents, this is what Jennifer Monahan had to say to about DNA. Keep in mind, her husband is a doctor; they both know that DNA does not lie:

“We actually believe that DNA testing is a very important part of the process, but unfortunately in Guatemala, it’s the only part of the process that holds preeminence. And because they use property rights arguments to declare Karen, as we understand it, like DNA is sort of viewed as a title, and we strongly feel that Karen isn’t property … it’s very important that we know the whole truth, and not just DNA, and that that be done in a safe context.”

"They", to whom Jennifer refers are the Guatamalan government and court. And "They" have their own ways of wording their own laws, and governing their own citizens. That is not our affair. And Anyeli is one of "Them", not one of us. The Monahans' refusal to give Anyeli back not only robs her natural parents of the right to bring up their own child, but it sets the stage for Guatamala to respond in kind if and when a kidnapped American child is found in Guatamala. Does it sound like the good doctor and his wife care about that? No? Well......they are upper middle class white Americans with plenty of money. Why should they care about the safety of the rest of us? They have what they want; everyone else should just go away, especially Anyeli's natural mother. She played her part in the grand scheme of things......she had a beautiful baby girl, who got stolen from her and sold to the Monahans. It is no longer appropriate to say "adopted by the Monahans" because the Guatamalan court ruled that it was NOT an adoption. Since money exchanged hands, and the transaction was determined not to be an adoption, it is fair to say that Anyeli was bought.....by the very woman who "feels" that Anyeli isn't property. Oh! I keep forgetting; it's KAREN that isn't property. Anyeli, on the other hand, is a stolen, bought, and sold commodity.

Generally, DNA testing is done in a lab, in REALITY, not in a "context". Just what is Jennifer Monahan trying to say? She sounds very much to me like a woman who knows that what she is doing is very, very wrong, yet does not want to face it or admit it. This is one of the many faces of human trafficking, and Jennifer Monahan's latest novelty is a real mother's broken heart.

Open Letter To Dr. And Mrs. Timothy Monahan

Dr. Timothy Monahan and his wife, Jennifer, of Liberty, Missouri, went to Guatemala in 2008 and left that country with a kidnapped child. They did not kidnap the little girl, but they bought her from an organized crime ring that stole her from her mom, while she was taking groceries inside. They left the country as quickly as they could, despite the missing persons posters with little Anyeli's face. Later on, in Missouri, they denied that they had purchased a stolen child, but the DNA testing told a different story.

Dr. Monahan, why won't you just admit that you accidentally got involved with a bunch of dangerous thugs, and give Anyeli back to her mother? You may have noticed that I used the word "purchased" instead of "adopted" in the paragraph above. It was not a typo. You did NOT adopt Anyeli Rodriguez, and she is NOT your daughter. Adoptions happen when all parties are in agreement about the matter, and they go through the court legally, in all countries concerned. The identities of all parties are clear, no fake names, no phony birth certificates. This did not happen in the case of the missing child you brought back to America from Guatemala. What did happen was a kidnapping, followed by false imprisonment, followed by fraud, (falsified birth certificate) followed by abandonment, followed by the act of human trafficking in which you continue to engage. You may not have known what was happening at first, although if you are actually innocent, it seems as if you would have given the victim back to her parents, but now that you know, why do you continue to assert your illicit connection to the victim, albeit not initially your fault, over the legitimate connection of her birth mother? If you had done this in America, that child would be back with her family. Is a middle class Guatemalan mom really that much easier to impugn?

Ya know, Dr. Monahan, if Anyeli were my child, I would do whatever I had to do to bring her home. Your money, your big house, your housekeepers and receptionists.........all those things would not convince me that my child was better off with you. I don't think Anyeli's TRUE mother thinks so, either. Anyeli is simply not your child, that is all there is to it. Anyeli was the victim of a kidnapping, and she was found far away from her home, in a different country. Why do you think you have a right to keep her, now that she has been found? Did you purchase her fair and square, like a couch or a second hand car? Do you really think it's possible that you love Anyeli, even though her mother searched relentlessly for over five years to find her? What were you doing for those five years? Do you think you prayed as hard as Anyeli's family? I don't think it is possible that you experience love, because this situation has called for the reuniting of mother and child ever since you found out who she actually is, yet you resist. You are really a selfish pig, not a dad.

Suppose Kyron Horman, or Lisa Irwin were found? Suppose they were found living with families who have more money than their natural parents? Would those people, no matter how they got these kidnapped children, get to keep them, because they were rich enough to impugn the natural parents? Should it be okay for people with more money to just go out, and have kids stolen, from people with less money? Or would Kyron's parents demand him back, at once? But that's easy.........I have assumed that both children mentioned above are on American soil. Suppose a missing child from America is found in Guatemala? Should we tell the anxiety-ridden natural parents the same thing you are telling your prisoner's parents? Finders keepers, losers weepers? What if authorities in other countries are watching this, and think everyone in America is as creepy and evil as you? What if this sets some sort of a precedent, and other countries decide not to work with the United States in kidnapping cases anymore, because of you? Please give the little girl back.

I do not live too far away from you, Dr. and Mrs. Monahan. That brings me to another reason I really hope that you will do the right thing and let Anyeli's true parents have her back. This has caused a bit of an international fracus. The United States appears to be vested enough in human trafficking, during these dismal economic times, to look the other way while you keep a child who was kidnapped, but what if Anyeli's family decides not to look the other way? Suppose Loyda Rodriguez loves her child more than you can imagine loving anyone? Suppose Anyeli's family is not going to just give up? You obviously imagine that they have forgotten their daughter, but what if they haven't? Anyeli's own country wants her back, and; after all, you ARE holding  a Guatemalan citizen against her will. What if some sort of retaliation against you changes the area for all of us?  Can you see why many people, even if not vested in morals and love of children, would like to see you just do the right thing and give this kidnapping victim back to her Guatemalan family? I know you feel that you bought her fair and square, but human beings are not for sale.

Anyeli Hernandez Rodriguez. No legitimate connection to Dr. And Mrs. Timothy Monahan, of Liberty, Missouri.

Timothy And Jennifer Monahan, Missouri, And Human Trafficking

On November 3, 2006, a woman named Loyda Rodriguez, who lives in Guatamala, incurred one of a parent's worst nightmares. Her two year old daughter, Anyeli, was kidnapped. It took her five years and lots of help from Gautamalan authorities and Interpol to finally find her, have all of the DNA tested, and then obtain a Gautamalan court order to return the little girl to her family. It seems that little Anyeli was stolen, falsely imprisoned in an orphanage, then dropped off with a fake birth certificate, which has since been revoked, (Guatamala and Interpol think the REAL birth certificate is quite suitable) and adopted by a couple named Timothy and Jennifer Monahan, in Liberty, Missouri, under false pretenses. In other words, an illegal adoption. In more other words, human trafficking. Fast forward to July of 2011. The Monahans were ordered to return Anyeli to her parents. They were given two months to do this. It has now been almost a year, yet the Monahan's of White-Picket-Fence-Holier-Than-Thou-Christian-Midwestville have not complied. The adoption agency that handled the phony adoption has been prosecuted, along with all of the lawyers involved, and the DNA of the little girl from whom they stole everything from culture and family to given name matches the real mother, who dedicated five years to searching. Five years is probably longer then the Monahans have ever had to dedicate to anything! Their passport has been revoked in at least one country, and their victim's birth certificate has been revoked. Why have not they set her free?

Timothy and Jennifer have already decided to keep Anyeli. The fact that she was kidnapped, and that a real mother prayed, cried, and searched for years makes no difference to them. They have a house in Missouri, by God, and they can do whatever they want. Even if it means supporting the human trafficking industry. They will not even use the name on Anyeli's real birth certificate. They have a more white sounding name for Loyda Rodriguez's little girl: Karen. Only her name is not Karen. That makes Timothy and Jennifer guilty of brainwashing, as well as human trafficking. Note: had they just returned the child they bought with their middle class money to her rightful parents when they first found out the adoption agency operated by kidnapping children, they would not look so much like human traffickers. Their refusal to do the right thing after finding out that they had a child in their possession who had been declared missing is what makes them evil people. And if they wanted a "Karen", rather than an "Anyeli", why not just adopt a child in Missouri, who is more like them? Just let Anyeli go home.

Why is the United States unconcerned about a child getting kidnapped and trafficked? By allowing this, we are opening up the door for this type of crime to happen all the time. American authorities may think that parents in Guatamala do not matter as much as posers in Missouri, but what happens when the shoe is on the other foot, and the authorities of other countries refuse to return children who have disappeared in America, only to turn up in other countries? What will our government tell the White Picket Fence crowd, then?

Timothy and Jennifer Monahan, you could do everyone a huge favor, if you are reading this, and give that little kidnapping victim back to her parents. It's the right thing to do.

Anyeli Hernandez Rodgriguez