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Anyeli was stolen, falsely imprisoned in an orphanage, then dropped off with a fake birth certificate, which has since been revoked, (Guatamala and Interpol think the REAL birth certificate is quite suitable) and adopted by a couple named Timothy and Jennifer Monahan, in Liberty, Missouri,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 Their passport has been revoked in at least one country, and their victim's birth certificate has been revoked.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.
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
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.
ReplyDeleteLike what? Finders, keepers, losers weepers? Does that apply to kidnapped children, too? Or is it the fact that uman traffickers AND their customer are richer than Loyda? It is because Loyda is a citizen of a poorer country? Or that she speaks a different language? Or because the Monahans are white, and get whatever they want, even when the DNA says that "the child in Missouri", Anyeli, actually IS Loyda's missing daughter. A real mother does not have a baby and just forget about that child because a pair of American customers took a likeing to the child and decided to keep the child, which is what happened here. What's next? Are the Monahans and their ilk going to start grabbing children from parents in America?
DeleteWhat if this situation were reversed? Suppose one of our missing children turned up in Loyda's country? Should that country ignore court orders and keep the child just because they feel like it?What the Monahans are doing is dangerous and wrong.
As a mother to children by birth and by adoption I feel every child deserves the right to be raised and surrounded by their "blood kin". The Monahans are a disgrace to this country by their selfish ethnocentricity which is suggested by their decision to not return the child immediately to her family. She was kidnapped from parents who love her and want her! But mostly shame on all those who profited monetarily, and shame on the US for not taking a stronger stand to do the right thing.
ReplyDeleteI agree wholeheartedly. It's scary that we live in a country that plays games like this with children.
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