Yes, I am looking forward to this too. You can always replay it if you can't catch it live. I have great respect for Mark, and eager to hear his thoughts.
Thanks, will try to listen to it tommorrow then.
Yes, I am looking forward to this too. You can always replay it if you can't catch it live. I have great respect for Mark, and eager to hear his thoughts.
I had a grotesque thought Id rather not type out, however, its worth consideration. So the parents have a bio child, who is now 4 years of age. Seems odd to suddenly adopt another child when your own is so young. Then odd again to undertake an adoption from another country, despite it being your homeland. Is it possible WM was abusing their bio daughter in whatever fashion, and SM said, enough, this is your flesh and blood! So he alone decided to adopt a girl from India, thus explaining why he was the parent in charge of her care, and why their was reportedly friction in the marriage.
JMO, before coffee. :coffeews:
They may have very well started the process of adoption a year or 2 before the older child was born or even conceived. In an article I posted in thread 1 or 2, as of 2015 adoption from India (even to citizens living there) was taking roughly 3-4 years from the time prospective parents would begin the process with an adoption agency or orphanage.
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It's a religious decision and unlikely to change, IMO, as a Catholic. I won't get into that here because that would be a religious discussion and not allowed on WS unless it had direct bearing on the case. It does not, but I thought I should point out that this decision has nothing to do with international adoptions specifically. It is simply a decision made by a religious order.Let's hope it is temporary, and to avoid the children being adopted for less than honorable purposes.
Thank you, keeleydoll, I missed that article. Im honestly surprised the process takes that long in India. Seems to be so much need, but clearly standards must be in place.
Richardson police have blocked off a large area down the street from the Mathews house along the train tracks.
At the intersection of Spring Valley and Bowser
According to the Finding Sherin Mathews FB page, LE have a large area blocked off near the railroad tracks by the Mathews home. Intersection of Spring Valley and Bowser.
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So, she was originally abandoned by her birth family and left in the bushes. So, a punishment of abandonment and putting her by a tree makes perfect sense as a punishment - yeah, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO SCAR HER FOR LIFE!!!!Sherin was adopted June 23 of last year (2016) by Wesley and Sini Mathews, an American couple of Indian origin, from Mother Teresa Anath Seva Sansthan, a nonprofit in India's Bihar state. Babita Kumari, who managed the now-closed center, told Indian CNN affiliate News18 that the girl had been found in bushes by passers-by, apparently dumped there.
Authorities sent her to the center, where the orphaned girl became known as Saraswati — the name of a Hindu river goddess linked with education and the arts — before being adopted by the Mathewses.
Mathews went to check on Sherin about 3:15 a.m. When he didn't find her he went inside to wait for daylight to continue searching, or for her to return on her own. As he waited, he did laundry, Richardson police Sgt. Kevin Perlich said.
Press conference at 2pm from Richardson Police
It's now a closed group apparently, so I am unable to see this post. Interesting that it's now closed.....
Press conference at 2pm from Richardson Police