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Birthday Girl, Our Hearts Are With You

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.)