• The Adoption of Case No. 6815 Michael Edward Chalek Circuit Court of the 8th Judicial Circuit in and for Alachua County Florida • Scott and Karen Banks - Focus on Children,
Utah-
Samoa • Others involved: Dan Wakefield • The Adoption of Michelle Riess - New Jersey (1976) • The
Tennessee Children's Home Society, an unlicensed adoption agency used by its longtime director
Georgia Tann as a front for black market adoptions. An investigation in 1950 revealed the illegal activities of the Society; Tann died that year before she could be prosecuted. Many celebrities, among them
Joan Crawford and the husband-wife pair of
Dick Powell and
June Allyson, used the Society for their adoptions, but were unaware of the means Tann used to obtain children. Professional wrestling legend
Ric Flair was one of the last children adopted through the Society. • The legal kidnapping of James Elliott Rossler in 2015. His mother had arranged an adoption through Adoption Rocks before deciding to keep her baby while she was still pregnant. When he was taken in for medical issues three weeks after his birth Cook Children’s Medical Center used child abuse accusations as a pretext to send him to his intended adoptive mother, Katherine Sharp. His parents made The Bring Baby Elliott Home Facebook page to bring attention to their case, which was temporarily taken down by court order until the Supreme Court overruled it in June 2019. • The
Chu Li-ching infant trafficking case in Taiwan. == Television ==