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.

 

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.

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.

One More Question About The Adam Herrman Case

Okay, so Doug and Valerie Herrman, of Butler County, Kansas, will be in court on June 21 for fraud and theft, because they adopted Adam Herrman, and after he went missing in 1999, continued to collect monies to which he, and he only, was entitled. But riddle me this: why have they not been taken to court for child endangerment, or some other crime against children, relating to their failure to report Adam missing and his current status as "missing"? Is this type of treament of children legal in Kansas?

There are enough eyewitness accounts and affidavits containing incriminating information about Doug and Valerie Herrman to charge them with assualt, false imprisonment, and child abuse. If everyone who has made statements to the police would also testify in court, Mr. and Mrs. Do-Goody Herrman, who adopted and abused the children of others could already be in jail. Perhaps there, they would tell Adam Herrman's natural family, and the rest of us, where he is. And if it was warrented, maybe we could charge them with murder.

Or is my assumption that crimes against children are unlawful in Kansas incorrect? I mean, after all, Doug and Valerie Herrman seem to have gotton away with it.