Adopted in the reporting system of abandoned children per year in Africa
The Health and Human Services Commission has opened an investigation into Texas’ adoption system after seven children were adopted in an orphanage in Nigeria, the Houston Chronicle reported Sunday.The Commission’s investigation Office of the Inspector General was confirmed by the Commission spokeswoman Stephanie Goodman.
Bexar County District Judge John specializes often reflects a law on the hearings, Child Protective Services, said the newspaper, it is not uncommon for adoptions as dramatic as the integration of seven children. He said judges are based on studies carried out house to determine whether it is suitable adoptive.
“The social study is designed to tease any problem with regard to the prospective adoptive parents,” said the judge. “If Social Security study lack of things, which is the main place where things can go wrong. I am only too well that the information I received.”
Former Travis County District Judge F. Scott McCown said Texas underfunds his childhood and home studies can go wrong if the case workers for time systems.
“They are not always reveal everything,” he said, adding judges also many cases.
Mercury Liggins, the adoptive mother of seven children in Nigeria, earlier this month, was for two private adoptions in Fort Worth, before they have checked and approved again for four children CPS in Fort Bend County in 1996. In 2001, she was examined again and for the adoption of three other children in Dallas County.
The last two were demonstrations of Spaulding for Children, a private non-profit organization in Houston that contracts with the state for adoptive services.
Liggins’ first two adoptive children are not taken to Nigeria.
They remain with their ex-husband because the couple to divorce in 1990.
Vikki Finley, President and Chief Executive Officer Interim Spaulding for Children, there is a broad screening process for families and studies at home.
The Department of Family and Protective Services said, he never found in the house deficits studies under the direction of Spaulding.
During the year 2003 were more than 2400 children were in Texas, nearly 75 percent of respondents want the families recruited by CPS.
The Agency was previously under control in March 2000, a boy of 8 years Tarkington was fatally beaten with a baseball bat of his adoptive mother. Edith Beebe was 75 years in prison, according to the paper.
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