ACTION ALERT - Increased Murders of Adopted Children Sparks An Urgent Plea: Consider Attending This Town Hall Meeting March 10th, 2024. Everyone is Invited.
If you are reading this, I invite you to attend. You don't have to be adopted or affiliated with adoption in any way to show up, listen, learn, and share your heart about these matters.
Trigger Warning: Abuse, Torture, Murder. The details of child abuse in these cases may be upsetting to readers.
When will the murders, abuse, torture, and exploitation of adopted children end? This grave injustice for adoptees around the world keeps happening over and over again. While many choose to look the other way because it doesn't affect them directly, we urge you to attend this critical town hall meeting and stand in solidarity that we are tired of these crimes happening.
While this topic is sensitive and uncomfortable, it's a crucial matter I wish to bring to light. You don't have to be an adoptee to be in support of stopping these murders and torture. You can be anyone with a heart for human kindness and love for all children, but we are speaking of adopted children in this situation.
This town hall meeting has been set up in direct response to the increased and senseless murders we are seeing of adopted children worldwide. How many more Arabella McCormack's, Isabella Kalua's, and Zahra Ghulami's are we going to see murdered before we, as a society, do something?
We must come together as a community to put an end to the heinous acts of torture and murder being inflicted upon adopted children. These innocent, vulnerable children deserve our protection and support; our responsibility is to ensure their safety and well-being. Attending the town hall meeting can make our voices heard and show up for these innocent victims who deserve more.
If you are a part of the pro-life movement, you should attend this event. You can’t be pro-life and not care about these lives once they are born, especially when you support adoption. Most of us are aware that religious communities are supporters of adoption, even encouraging adoptions by promoting them from the pulpits around the world. Religion has had a strong influence on shaping the dominant culture and narrative of adoption. Are you aware that adopted children are being murdered in the homes of those who are pastors, believers, and people of God? If you fall into this category of individuals, you should be very alarmed!
If you support adoption in anyway, we need you at this town hall meeting.
Some of you might remember the Hart story, where the adoptive parents, Jennifer and Sara Hart, of six adoptees, drove them off a cliff, with the entire family murdered by these two women. This was a grievous and heartbreaking ending to the lives of these six adopted children. While this particular story was six years ago, the echo of these realities of adoptees being murdered by their adoptive parents continues to be felt around the world. But is anyone listening or noticing?
Countless more adoptees continue to be murdered by their adoptive parents, and I am going to share a few of the countless cases with you.
Grand Jury Indicts Waimanalo Girl's Adoptive Parents On Murder Charges. Lehua Kalua and Isaac Kalua were both charged with second-degree murder on Wednesday.
"Lehua Kalua, 44, and Isaac "Sonny" Kalua, 52, were both charged with second-degree murder, hindering prosecution, endangering the welfare of a minor, and persistent nonsupport in connection with the death of their adoptive daughter, 6-year-old Isabella Kalua, who was named Ariel Sellers before she was adopted."
Zahra Ghulami: Father jailed for life for toddler's murder. Zahra Ghulami sustained head injuries at their home in Gravesend on May 27th, 2020, and died two days later. Medical evidence concluded her fatal injury was likely to have been inflicted by Zahra being thrown to the floor or against a wall.
"During examinations, doctors found evidence of older injuries, which included a skull fracture and a healing fracture to her arm and shoulder blade, police added. A judge said he "habitually" treated female family members in a "brutal and brutish way" and sentenced him to a minimum of 23-and-a-half years in prison.
Sickening: Prosecutors detail alleged torture of 10-year-old who died of starvation and neglect.
“The three behind bars for her murder are couple Brandy and Thomas Blas, 35 and 41, respectively, and grandmother Debra Geron, 67. The Blas’ were Geanna’s legal guardians and also had biological children and an adopted child in the home. They are also accused of abusing the adopted child, a 4-year-old boy.
That 4-year-old, authorities say, can only say two or three words and could barely walk when first responders were called to the home after Geanna died.”
Delmont boy's fatal injuries were 'diagnostic of torture,' doctors say.
"Lauren E. Maloberti, 34, and Jacob N. Maloberti, 33, of Delmont, are being held without bail on homicide charges in the Westmoreland County jail after being arraigned Friday morning. Their adoptive son, Landon Maloberti, died Feb. 7 at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, police said."
Woman sentenced for killing 5-year-old adopted son in Winston-Salem; examiner said injuries not consistent with accidental trauma.
"Lieutenant described as the worst case of abuse he had seen in 16 years. Kimberly Monique Smith, 39, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and felony intentional child abuse inflicting serious injury in connection with the death of her five-year-old adopted son Kendall Marquese Smith. She was sentenced to 22 and a half years to 28 years in prison."
Grandmother now also charged with murder in San Diego child-abuse death case. The mother of a former San Diego megachurch leader "seemed to enjoy" inflicting abuse, according to prosecutors.
"Arabella McCormack’s adoptive mother, Leticia McCormack, adoptive grandmother, Adella Tom, and adoptive grandfather, Stanley Tom, physically abused Arabella and her two younger sisters with paddles and sticks, deprived them of food and water, isolated them in their rooms, denied them access to bathrooms and forced them to participate in rigorous exercises, according to prosecutors. This murder trial is still ongoing with new evidence being found - 700 counts of abuse."
We’ll never forget Jaliek Rainwalker/ Adoptee, who disappeared from the face of the earth in 2007! His adoptive father remains a suspect, and his adoptive parents are uncooperative with police. His story was featured on the popular podcast Crime Junkies. You can listen here. This case is open. If you know anything about Jaliek Rainwalker's disappearance, please contact the Cambridge-Greenwich police at 518-677-3044.
This town hall meeting is an urgent plea for everyone.
SPEAK UP, BE PRESENT, AND VOICE YOUR CONCERNS!
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Many community members are coming together for an Emergency Town Hall Meeting on March 10th, 2024, to discuss these matters. If you are reading this, I invite you to attend. You don't have to be adopted or affiliated with adoption in any way to show up, listen, learn, and share your heart about these matters.
A MESSAGE FROM A FEW OF THEM:
A Message From a Friend, Adoptee Ally & Attendee, Andrea Coates:
“I consider it a privilege to be attending the “Emergency Town Hall Meeting about the murder of adopted children” on March 10. I believe that it is imperative to always listen to the lived experiences of adoptees. And while there are adoptees whose voices were taken away through horrific deaths, I can learn by listening to and learning from their tragic stories. I want to learn about what I can do to contribute to change that needs to occur to prevent another child from being murdered.” - Andrea Coates, LCSW - DNA Search Angel - Adoption Competent Therapist -Adoptee Ally.
A Message From Friend, Adoptee & Attendee, Roxan, Gray Market, Maryland 1958:
“Having an audible conversation about Murdered Adoptees is critical. Doing so honors the dead, gives them a voice, albeit too late, and brings awareness to a topic that needs to be known. Looking away or being in discomfort and denial about this reality doesn't save lives. And the Murder of Adoptees needs to cease forevermore.” - Roxan.
A Message From Adoptee, Grey Market Baby, Katheen Simon- Ingalls:
“As we know, it is a great privilege to be in-trusted to care for another’s child. As for the carers who Adopt, adoption is all about pretending. It’s a natural sociological occurrence to have a child without the best of circumstances. Our demonization of less than perfect circumstances, literally offers up a description to believe, an innocent child is being less than-the others. Those born into marriage and employment. So I’d like to quote Betty Jean Lifton, who quotes R.D. Lange in her book Lost and Found the Adoption Experience. Here’s the quote from a child’s view. “They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules, and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game. How can we expect to thwart these murders when the reality is, society has placed a child dishonestly, in a life that exists in a vacuum of gaslighting. Adults who resent what they know and what they resent the child knowing. Because the child knows, the adopter knows, even when the child tries their best to be someone they are not. The child can never be good enough, after all the child was second choice, and the child had no choice. The dynamics are extraordinary, and the occurrences of child murders and suicides occur over and over while playing the game. Regretful gratitude when the emotional fog begins to lift. How we can untangle this is to end adoption. And promote only Guardianship. While helping natural families rather than blaming them. The language Bastard is antiquated as we have DNA. Yet laws are set up to bastardize a baby just to legitimize them through adoption. It’s an antiquated process, and these are the results. Allowing marriage to authenticate people who have no earthly business caring for another’s child. All too often, this equates to suicide and encourages the dysfunction and abuse that precedes these many Deaths.” - Kathleen Simon - Ingalls.
A Message From Natural Mother, Domestic Infant Adoption, Dani Joy:
“I’m a first mother who was threatened and pressured to relinquish a child I very much wanted to parent. The “Christians” in my life told me adoption was “God’s will.” According to the popular narrative, adoption is supposed to “save” unwanted children. I’m attending the town hall because we cannot hide and ignore ugly and evil truths in an attempt to uphold a beautiful lie. These precious children’s lives mattered, and the truth must be told about an industry that commodifies and uses up the bodies and lives of our babies.” - Dani Joy
A message from a friend, fellow adoptee, attendee and director of The Reckoning With The Primal Wound Documentary, Autumn Sansom:
“I’m attending this event to honor Arabella, Geanna, Zehra, and Landon, who tragically lost their lives at the hands of genetic strangers entrusted with their safety.” - Autumn Sansom
A message from a friend, fellow adoptee, attendee, and Director of Against Child Trafficking, Arun Dohle:
“I'm joining the event as there is too much abuse and killings in a so-called alternative family environment. The whole childcare system must be revamped, and adoption needs to be stopped.” - Arun Dohle
A message from a friend & Adoptive Mom, host & organizer of this event, Beth Syverson:
"I'm an adoptive mom. I didn't realize until my son was in crisis at age 15 that adoption trauma was a thing. I was pretty oblivious about the deep and complex effects that maternal separation, transracial adoption, and intercountry adoption had on my dear son. For a while, I just sat in the guilt and shame I felt about my lack of awareness, and I still feel it sometimes. But instead of sitting in it, now I'm trying to make a difference by taking meaningful actions. One such action is opening my platform for the Town Hall Meeting on March 10. When Moses first approached me with this topic of adoptive parents murdering their children in barbarous ways, I was honestly pretty offended. Did Moses think I would do such a thing? Did he think any of my podcast listeners would do such a thing? But after opening my heart, I realized he was asking me to join forces with him. To ally with him and other adoptees and birth parents.
I have no idea how to stop adoptive parents from murdering their children. The people who would do such a thing are not going to listen to a podcast or seek help. But what I can do is help raise awareness, help find solutions, and fight for the safety of adopted children everywhere. We can all help healthcare workers, teachers, ministers, and community members wake up to the seriously flawed adoption industry that would hand over a relinquished child to a parent who would torture and murder their child. We can all be more protective and demand change in the way the system treats our adopted children.
I hope many other adoptive parents will join me at this Town Hall Meeting on March 10. We adoptive parents can transform the power that we are often accused of wielding (in a bad way). Instead, we can raise our voices against the adoption industry and the bad actors who are profiting from our most vulnerable children. Just come and listen, absorb, and be part of the solution."
Please reach out to Beth Syverson if you have questions about this Town Hall Meeting:
www.unravlingadoption.com
Email: beth@unravelingadoption.com
A Message From Friend, Fellow Adoptee, Attendee, Laura Sparks:
“I'm planning to attend the town hall meeting. I didn't know about the mass graves and the horrific history of adoption until just the past couple of years. I want to attend to learn more about the issues and join others who are working to address those issues.” - Laura Sparks
A Message From Friend, Fellow Adoptee, Attendee and Co-Founder of Hiraeth Hope & Healing Retreats, Cindy Olson McQuay:
“As I delve deeper into the history and mechanisms of "adoption," I become increasingly troubled by the connections and corruption that emerge. The prevalence of articles detailing instances of abuse, torture, and even murder involving children in foster care or adopted situations is deeply concerning. Why is there such a lack of comprehensive statistics on these cases? Where is the major media coverage, candlelight vigils, calls for action and justice, and social media hashtags? Why have we not heard words of sorrow expressed from the White House and governors? It appears that the profit-driven indu$try has lost sight of the welfare of these vulnerable children. They are placed without adequate oversight, and there's a stark absence of accountability. Any form of violence resulting in death is intolerable! I feel an urgent need to advocate for these innocent victims who lack a voice within my own marginalized community.” - Cindy Olson McQuay.
A Message From Friend, Adoptee, First Mother, and Founder of The Answers We Deserve, Shelly Dunlap Johnson:
“Being silent about unsavory topics is harmful....period. We see this with many marginalized groups and the harm our silence brings. Adoptive parents' voices are amplified over the marginalized adoptees. Their voices are needed as allies. Instead of saying, " I would never abuse or murder my child," we need them to shed light on the stories and voices that can no longer speak. My daughter was rehomed 3x...she came to our family as a 5-year-old. She had no bio-history, blind in her left eye, chipped teeth, and later we saw X-rays of previous bone fractures. She could have easily become another child murdered by the hand of a " caring adoptive family." We can't properly track all the deaths because adoption is not started on our birth or death certificates. Some adoptees don't even know. I am sure there are more that have succumbed to death by adoptive parents. Not talking about this will only bring more harm.” - Shelly Dunlap Johnson.
A Message From Friend, First Mother, & Executive Director of Parents Partnership, Jenny Trudeau:
“I have decided that I wanted to watch this discussion and to see what others are saying about this because, as a mother of loss to adoption, I am horrified to learn of the fates of so many children when mothers like me were all told they would have a better life. The most repeated lie to vulnerable mothers, desperate to save their baby, is how much better off that baby will be. It is one of the most horrifying discoveries to learn that isn't true - and for so many babies, it was the total opposite. It's not okay to continue the narrative that just because of a temporary struggle, mothers should lose their babies to strangers, especially when there is no guarantee they'll be properly cared for. It is stuff made of nightmares for every mother out there, to think she was saving her baby, to know she fed it to wolves instead. I care very deeply to prevent any more loss.” - Jenny Trudeau
A Message From Friend & Fellow Adoptee Moses Farrow:
"This town hall meeting is sparked out of a state of emergency for the countless voiceless adoptees to voice our concerns, grievances, stories, and questions about the adoption industry. Among all the outcomes we have endured, seeing infants and children being bought only to be then tortured to death is one of the many reasons it's time to raise the alarm.
These adoptees who are being murdered are people whose lives are being destroyed by this industry that commodifies and dehumanizes us to exploit us for profit, leaving us to die in these slaughterhouses. This is not a time to compare lived experiences but to acknowledge what we are to people in this culture of coercion, in which we've all been brainwashed and conditioned to believe adoption is something it isn't. Not one life should be seen as an acceptable loss EVER in order to keep this adoption scheme going. Look how the Black community responded to George Floyd, how the Asian American community reacted when Christian Hall was gunned down, and most recently, how the LGBTQ community has reacted to Nex Benedict.
This town hall meeting is not meant to call out the adoption community but a call to action. Now is the time as new cases and murder trials are underway as we speak! There have been countless murders of adopted infants and children, and I have not come across any large-scale public response from the adoption community. It's time we change this."
Recommended Listening - Everything’s Relative with Eve Sturges Podcast:
Please reach out to Moses Farrow with media inquiries regarding this topic:
Email: moses@mosesfarrow.com
Instagram: mosesafarrow
Facebook: mosesfarrowofficial
A Message From Friend, Fellow Adoptee & Attendee, Shelley Jean:
“As an adult adopted person, I know it is crucial that we stand up to protect the youth. Our voices have always been silenced by those who struggle with the discomfort that truth brings. The fact remains one harmed child is too many. We need to come together now and develop a plan to stop this violence before another innocent child is hurt.” - Shelley Jean
What is the solution?
I personally have no idea, and I wish I knew. I believe collectively, we can spark some heartfelt conversations, propelling and igniting change together. There is power in numbers, so a collaborative effort is critical.
With adoption glamourized around the world, the reality of the darker side of adoption continues to be covered up, ignored, and unacknowledged, but adoptees are speaking up and speaking out. We're tired of seeing our fellow adoptees abused, tortured, and even murdered.
We urge you to share this article and the event on your social media and tag your news stations across your state. Tag celebrities to help gain traction. Email them and directly invite all your Facebook followers to this event on Facebook. If you go directly to the event, click “Invite Friends” and invite everyone you know. It is free and only takes a few minutes of your time. That one invite could save an adoptee’s life.
Together, we can create a safer and more just society for all children and ensure that no adopted child has to endure such horrific abuse ever again. Join us in taking a stand against child abuse, torture, and murder against adoptees, and let's work together to protect our most precious and vulnerable members of society. Adoptive Parents, Biological Parents, Adoptees, and anyone who knows and loves them, I hope to see you there. We still invite you to attend if you have no role in the adoption constellation. We need allies, and we appreciate your consideration.
To register for this event, click here.
Please consider posting this event and article on your social media and inviting your friends & family to attend. Tag your local and state-wide news stations, adoption agencies, pregnancy crisis centers, pro-life groups, churches, ministries, and anyone else possible to help gain exposure.
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I see you; I feel your pain for all the adoptees who feel forgotten, lost, and alone. Please don’t give up, and know you aren’t alone in feeling like you do.
I have compiled a list of recommended resources for adoptees and advocates. It can be found here: Recommended Resources for Adult Adoptees and Adoption Advocates.
Thank you for reading and for supporting me and my work. Please consider sharing with those you know and in your adoption circles. A little understanding goes a long way. A special THANK YOU to everyone who shared a quote, who is showing up for this event, and for the host, Beth Syverson. I appreciate you all more than you know!
Understanding is Love,
Pamela A. Karanova
Here are a few articles I recommend reading:
100 Heartfelt Transracial Adoptee Quotes that Honor the Truth of Adoption by Pamela A. Karanova & 100 Transracial Adoptees Worldwide
What Are the Mental Health Effects of Being Adopted? By Therodora Blanchfield, AMFT
10 Things Adoptive Parents Should Know – An Adoptee’s Perspective by Cristina Romo
Understanding Why Adoptees Are At A Higher Risk for Suicide by Maureen McCauley | Light of Day Stories
Toward Preventing Adoption- Related Suicide by Mirah Riben
Relationship Between Adoption and Suicide Attempts: A Meta-Analysis
Reckoning with The Primal Wound Documentary with a 10% off coupon code (25 available) “adopteesconnect”
Still, Grieving Adoptee Losses, What My Adoptive Parents Could Have Done Differently.