I agree with you that this was likely a financial decision and perhaps the decision to adopt more children with special needs was due to the additional stipend. I do wonder if Blake and London were singled out for harsher treatment due to their additional special needs. (perhaps moreso over the other children.) ALL MOO
Bryanna said (in the podcast) that Ava worked with London in a professional capacity before adopting her. I don’t know if this is substantiated anywhere, but I think it could be relevant if true.
She was born and raised in a weird cult ran by a con-artist who appears to be her father so I believe things started weird and got really bad over the years. I'm glad her poor mother got to have medical care in her last days, I can't imagine what she would do to her mother had she passed away in her home. I don't know if Leonie was a good or a bad person, but nobody deserves what happened to Blake and London. Bryanna clearly has A LOT of issues and judging by what has been shared, the two surviving boys will need a lot of help too.
Does anyone know what special needs Blake and London had?
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One now-adult adopted child said London had FAS. Looking at her photos she does seem to have the FAS face, but there's not a lot of photos to take a closer look.
After Robert Adams passed away, Nicole Adams and Avantae Deven were both listed on a deed to a house in Arizona.
I have seen those. I was wondering if it's been confirmed. "Robert Adams" is a very common name. But would be a twist for sure.
I saw the picture that was supposedly Leonie, and I didn't see any resemblance at all aside from the curly hair.
I would also like to know if she was receiving checks for her adopted kids and/or any other people she was supposed to be caring for. IMO it sounds like she used the system and these poor kids as a cash cow and for her twisted abuse.
Great research!*Enka, NC
Before the Devens moved to Fayetteville, it appears Avantae Deven was living in Buncombe County — IRS tax records show her living in Enka, an unincorporated community there, while she was the registered agent for a nonprofit called the Infinity Institute from 2011 to 2016.
The Infinity Institute was established in Nevada by Robert Adams, a teacher of a philosophy of Hinduism called Advaita Vedanta, in 1996, according to the nonprofit’s website and Nevada state records.
Property records show an LLC created in New Mexico owns Avantae Deven’s Berriedale Drive home. According to records from the New Mexico Secretary of State’s website, Avantae Deven registered the LLC, called Nelson & Johnson, under a Sedona, Arizona, address in September 2016. The LLC’s purpose was listed as “gatherings for various artists [sic] showings and book sharing/readings.”
She said her teenager went to a ‘Buddhist retreat.’ Now, he’s been missing for 632 days - CityView NC
The woman said she hadn’t seen her son for over a year.www.cityviewnc.com
This is depressing. His poor bio mom wouldn’t have been able to do anything even though she probably knew that was beyond typical acting out or something for him. That’s messed up. I’m also so sad that she was excited to see him again soon once he was 18. She must have had her own difficulties when he was young and I don’t know what they are but she still wanted to be a part of his life and that shows that she did have maternal care for him unlike his depraved adopted mother. I can only imagine staying with bio mom had to have been better. The foster system needs to be fixed.
There was a long list of thank you's to different agencies on the official LE release. One was the US Postal Service, I was wondering about that. Aside from getting money for the kids, maybe she was ordering stuff in their names too and kept them herself.
I think they helped trace her movements over the years, what with the address and name changes and all
That's a likely possibility too.
Could be, but I think it could be a federal mail fraud case (in addition to all other charges) if she was receiving checks for them via the mail knowing they were already dead.
Oh, very good point, I didn't even think of that. And I'm sure she did, since no one knew they were even missing.
