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7 Texas Children left alone in Nigeria
« on: Aug 18^th, 2004, 12:57pm »

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HOUSTON (Aug. 17) - Seven Texas children were discovered abandoned at
a Nigerian orphanage, suffering from disease and malnutrition, and have
been brought back to the United States.
Child Protective Services, which received emergency custody of the
children Monday, is investigating accusations that the children's adoptive
mother abandoned them in Nigeria in October and later went to work in Iraq as
a private contractor. The Houston woman, whose identity was not released,
allegedly left them at a Nigerian school that later discharged them for
nonpayment of tuition.
The children returned to Texas on Friday. Three of the children were hospitalized with malaria and later released, said CPS spokeswoman Estella Olguin. They all were thin and covered with mosquito bites and scars, officials said.
The three boys and four girls, ranging from 8 to 16, were discovered in late July by a visiting Texas missionary, who notified House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Sen. John Cornyn, both of Texas, said Stuart Roy, a spokesman for DeLay.
The lawmakers contacted CPS and the U.S. State Department, along with the
ambassador in Nigeria, and the children were given papers allowing re-entry
into the United States.
Now, they are living in two Houston foster homes.
"It's horrible, horrible,'' Olguin said. "I haven't seen anything like it. Seven children fending for themselves in a foreign country where they have no family members.''
Four of the siblings were adopted from Houston in 1996, followed by a set of three siblings from Dallas in 2001, according to authorities who interviewed the children and their adoptive mother.
The woman took all the children in October to Nigeria, where a relative of her fiance lived. The children were enrolled in school and the mother returned to Houston about 30 days later. She went to work in Iraq in April. But the children were removed from school because payment for their tuition stopped. Nigerian child-protection authorities found the children in a wooden shack, malnourished and sick, and moved them to an orphanage in late July.
A minister from a San Antonio church alerted lawmakers after he overheard the children speaking with American accents and talked to them. The minister said the children told him the name of their adoptive mother and said they liked the Houston Rockets. In a final effort to prove they were Americans, the seven children stood shoulder to shoulder and sang the national anthem, San Antonio pastor John Hagee said.
The children wanted pizza after returning to Texas on Friday, Olguin said.
They're saying: "God bless America. We love America,'' she said.
She said their adoptive mother was at the hearing Monday at which a
state district judge ordered the children to be returned to CPS custody.
State officials will determine whether criminal charges will be filed against
the adoptive mother, who is due back in court Aug. 26.

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Re: 7 Texas Children left alone in Nigeria
« Reply #1 on: Aug 23^rd, 2004, 5:29pm »

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David, I saw this and was absolutely appalled!!!!

Who in the world would do something like this? They need to send the adoptive mother to Nigeria without money, food, or clothing, drop her in a remote part of the country where no one speaks English, and let her fend for herself.

Those children are hopefully in very good foster homes right now. This has got to be one of the lowest forms of child abuse I've read about in a long time.

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« Reply #2 on: Aug 23^rd, 2004, 7:43pm »

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This is pretty bad. I read about one case shortly after my first son was born and I tell you I wish I had never read it, to this day some of the stuff I read just haunts me.

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