As someone who has been in the adoption world for years and who researches agency's, adoption professionals, scammers and yes, potential adoptive parents.
I have seen my share of what we call PAP's who submit false homestudy's because they were able to find the forms on line, and for the most part they would get caught if a smart adoption professional checked with the social worker who supposedly did the h/s.
I can picture EJ meeting up with a couple and them walking away with the baby. BUT, she had to have been introduced to them in some way shape or form. She had to have found out about TX and their laws.
What puzzles me is her need for new identity, was it so she had something that would match a new birth certificate for GJ? She was literally wanting this little guy to disappear out of spite??? or, was it an unethical adoption professional who heard her story and said oh we can help with that, this is what we can do for you, because in your case the law might not be enough to protect your son.
Last night I was thinking,,where would an adoption professional get a birth certificate? When you do private adoptions today, mom fills out the BC at the Hosp. she puts down a name and fills in all the info. when there is a final adoption, then the first BC get filed and sealed in court records and then there is an amended one that has the adoptive parents name on it (even though I am a mom through adoption, I do not like this process, I see it as false documentation),,,,,,,,,,in private adoption, it is easy for the new family, and that adoption professional to get a copy of it. We have a copy of our daughters, but it is for them, not us. And their parents gave it to us.
What do you think?