National Guardsman gets life sentence in case linked to 're-homing'

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

(Reuters) - An Ohio National Guardsman who participated in an underground network used to send unwanted adopted children from family to family was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole for raping and sexually abusing three young girls in his care.

Jean Paul Kruse, 42, also received 30 months for intimidating a witness: a teenager from Haiti who had been sent to live with Kruse and his wife through the online network.

The Haitian girl, who went by the name Nita Dittenber at the time, had cycled through four homes within two years of being adopted by an Idaho family and brought to America.

Now 19, Nita was not molested by Kruse, but she helped bring to light the abuse of the other children in the household. She was profiled as part of a Reuters investigation into private "re-homing," an unregulated practice in which parents transfer custody of children they adopted but no longer wanted to strangers met through the Internet.

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[slumcamper]

1. SICK. EVIL. And this is UNREGULATED??? Speechless. WTF.

[christx30]

3. Agreed.

If anything on the planet needed to be regulated, it's the homing of adopted human beings.
And how does that work? Unwanted children?! "Timmy wouldn't eat his green beans 3 times this week. To heck with him. We're sending him to, I don't know Montana, Massachusetts, Mississippi. Somewhere that starts with M."

[sybylla]

2. This horrendous practice must be stopped.

Children aren't disposable. These fuckers need to be exposed for the animals they are.

[blackspade]

4. Re-homing?

What kind of shit is that? Sick.

[BenintheWorld]

5. Horrendous situation

This is very sad and awful. I wonder if these parents who are rejecting their adopted children went through the process of a legal adoption agency or did a private adoption. I believe legal agencies have a lot of criteria set in place to prevent this kind of thing from happening. But, people with enough money will adopt directly, in a private adoption, through a lawyer. They don't have to be approved by an adoption agency.

[Xithras]

6. Even private adoptions require a homestudy.

A couple good friends of mine just adopted a little girl two months ago. No agencies were involved, the adoption was completely private, and the mother approached THEM about adopting the child (she was young and didn't want to abort, already knew them socially, and knew that they'd been trying to adopt an infant without luck for over three years).

Even though it was completely private, they were still required to have a homestudy done and have a couple of visits from social workers before the courts would fully sign off on the adoption. As far as I'm aware, every U.S. state that permits private adoptions has homestudy and visit requirements in place to ensure the health and safety of the child.