In reference to the MySpace disgustingness, Lifetime Adoption has updated their MySpace page. Some of my favorite key points:

WE DO NOT CONTACT BIRTH MOTHERS - YOU NEED TO CONTACT US!

No, you contact pregnant women. No one is a birth mother until they sign the Termination of Parental Rights.

Although we are an adoption resources group (NOT AN ADOPTION AGENCY) we are happy to help you make a life plan.

No, you’re worse than an agency. You’re a sleazy facilitator who isn’t bound by the same laws that agencies are (which those laws and rules don’t do much to govern agencies anyway but basically facilitators are untouchable when they break the law; just ask ANLC!).

They also removed their “exotic dancer” networking link on their profile and now it’s just “public relations.” They also removed a BUNCH of links. Interesting all the same.

I wouldn’t have known about the updates if some comment spammer from a San Fransisco IP address at a private residence connected to the name Caldwell. So, thanks to that comment spammer, I can let readers know that they’re trying to cover their behinds. (Though, this random commenter stated that I don’t look pregnant in my MySpace picture which means that either this person knows me OR it’s someone from the agency/facilitator who started this mess and knows that I’ve changed my MySpace default picture to something that DOESN’T identify me as pregnant so as to avoid further solicitations. Sneaky, aren’t they?)

Interestingly, for a second, I thought maybe the MySpace account wan’t affiliated with the agency/facilitator since they removed a TON of their local branch links and just now list the dot ORG site as opposed to dot COM. However, again, if you go to lifetimeadoption dot ORG you are redirected to the dot COM site.

So, basically, word got out and they tried to cover their rear ends. Don’t trust this company.

Today Evelyn Bennett turns one.

The agency that coerced her to separate from her child is actually an agency that “touts” openness. Had anything regarding this adoption been done in an ethical manner (read: had they not basically stolen the child), Evelyn’s rightful mother might have been able to experience this day with her daughter. She might have been able to be there through pictures, a phone call or even in person. Had anything been handled in an ethical manner and the adoption still proceeded, Evelyn’s rightful mother might have gotten some solace on this day.

Instead, her daughter is turning one in an unknown location with people who are not her legal parents. Her rightful mother and her family continue to fight for her return to their household. The internet demands justice. All while the unethical agency sits on their haunches and does nothing to make right a situation that they totally blew out of the water. Admitting fault leaves them wide open to civil lawsuit.

Someday a little girl named Evelyn will learn that her rightful mother fought tooth and nail to have her by her side, long before that first birthday. Pictures will eventually be marred by the legal battle, no matter the outcome, by an agency and set of parents who refuse to do the ethical, right thing and return Evelyn to her family. Don’t give me the line of BS about “she’s bonded with that family now, it would be wrong to move her.” She shouldn’t have been there in the first place, they knew that and any emotional turmoil shall sit on their shoulders (and the shoulders of the agency) for the rest of their living days. (In fact, I say let THEM pay for her future therapy.)

Before I get all worked up and thus nauseated again, I just want to say:

Happy Birthday, Evelyn. My wish for you, in this coming year, is to be reuninted with your rightful family. Blessings upon you as you unknowingly gear up for the fight of your life.

(For more, click on Ungrateful Little Bastard’s post, Hope, to find candles lit all around the blogosphere for Evelyn’s return.)