Adoption and Fostering for Profit: An Arizona Mom Who Lost her Children Exposes A Corrupt System

Melissa Diegel with her daughters Kayla and Hannah, before they were medically kidnapped.

The Cold Hard Facts About Foster Parenting & Adoption

There are good people in this world. I truly believe that. There are good foster parents too. There are good adoptive parents out there as well. In fact, my sister is an adoptive parent, and she does a great job and she has never received a dime. So this article does not apply to all parents.

However, I would be amiss to not disclose additional information that has recently come to light.

The system has become a well oiled machine working for profit. Many people in it are driven by money, and many good parents have had their children wrongfully removed so that others can greedily line their pockets for profit. I am still in shock sometimes as I peel back the layers to this system like a thick smelly onion, although I know I should no longer be shocked. One thing is for certain, it always leads back to the money and never seems to be about the “best interest of the children.”

Most of the general public is aware that foster families receive a monthly stipend for the children they have in their care. They don’t however know how much each foster family receives. This of course varies by state, but here are Arizona’s numbers:

Depending on if they are disabled or not they receive a different amount per day. This ranges from $22.31 – $37.49. OR $669.30- $1,124.70 a month.

Arizona’s Daily Current Rates: Family Foster Home Care Rates and Fees Schedule

If however, families are doing kinship care, which means you or a relative are taking care of a loved one after the child has been removed by DCS/ CPS, the reimbursement which means you or a relative is taking care of a loved one after the child has been removed by DCS/ CPS, the reimbursement rates are $1.74-$2.63 a day/ $78.90 a month. Which seems astronomically disproportionate and inappropriate.

Adoptive Parents Now Adopt for Free and Make a Profit

This is the part where I really start to question the motive of people. Are you aware of the fact that adoptive families are compensated if they adopt a special needs child? This is known as a maintenance subsidy which falls under the umbrella of the adoption subsidy. Adoptive families receive this adoption subsidy if the children they adopt are special needs children in the state of AZ.

Let’s stop here for a minute. I am the mom of two special needs children. I love them dearly. Most special needs moms I know would not give up their kids. There you have it, there is one of the problems.WHERE DID THEY GET THESE KIDS? I have read thousands of cases now. I have met hundreds of families. Many of these special needs children were wrongfully removed – horrifically separated for profit!

Let’s take a very close look at the list to see who else qualifies in the state of Arizona.

The children only need to meet one of the criteria below to qualify for the adoption subsidy that would label a child special needs child:

physical, mental or developmental disability;
emotional disturbance;
high risk of physical or mental disease that may result in a debilitating condition;
high risk of developmental disability that may result in a debilitating condition;
age six or older at the time of application for adoption subsidy;
member of a sibling group being adopted by the same family;
racial or ethnic factors when such factor(s) impede the child’s adoptive placement; and
high risk of severe emotional disturbance if removed from the care of the child’s foster parent or relative as diagnosed by a psychiatrist or psychologist.

Source: Arizona State Subsidy Profile

Therefore, siblings are considered special needs if they are to be adopted by a family! A child over the age of six is considered special needs when put up for adoption as well. I have read several times that a child should not be reunified with the bio parents because it would cause emotional trauma since the child has “bonded” with the foster parents. Could it be that those children were deemed “special needs” and then qualified to stay with the foster parent for the adoption subsidy?

Adoptive Families Receive Monthly Maintenance Payments

In Arizona, families who adopt a special needs child, can claim the maximum credit regardless of their actual expenses. Families adopting children can claim up to $13,400 per child, a year. Families can benefit only if they have federal income tax liability; current law allows it to be applied toward liability over a six-year period.

The follow video depicts an adoptive parent who was former DCS employee. She became concerned because her $3381.48 monthly check for her adopted children became delayed by the department of Child Safety and she was worried about how she was going to pay her rent.

It may very well be that many people adopt for the right reasons or not, but please keep in mind that many of these children may have been stolen to begin with, and the story you originally thought you may have been told about the bio family, might not be true.

Read the Full Article at The Liberty Beacon.

Learn more about the Diegel Family

Published on July 13, 2015

10 Comments

Jake June 25, 2017 at 10:57 am - Reply

Who do I tell (and would anyone care) if I can show that my neighbor’s are fostering for profit? They leave the kids with their natural kids (who are nowhere to be seen) throughout the summer. The foster kids vandalize other neighbor’s property, they steel materials from homes being built nearby, they routinely trespass throughout the neighborhood, the foster parents cried to the school system to get a bus stop right in front of their home when the foster kids ride 4 miles or more away from home on their bikes. They also routinely do not go to school.

So, as I say, who do I tell and would they even care? After all, "it’s just kids".

Vanessa Hudson July 15, 2015 at 1:15 pm - Reply

This is what I feel is attempting to be done with my daughter..  cps worker right out tells false statements .and I feel is trying rail road me..  was far as housing and DDD services..  being she is almost over the hurdle to receive ALTC.. yet they are unwilling to close the case and let me find housing instead it seems they want to force me out of housing and take my daughter..  well that is basically the situation in a but shell

Dawn E. Worswick July 14, 2015 at 9:09 pm - Reply

Take your kids back….many families go underground and that is a fact!!!!!!!! I am a survivor of criminal CPS and I am now an adult….if they ever my child….that is exactly what I would do. People in Europe when this happens go underground…..Americans should do the same!

Kathy & Chris Butner Sr July 14, 2015 at 7:06 pm - Reply
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same thing happened to our family
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kelley July 14, 2015 at 6:35 pm - Reply

I know a family that has adopted 6 special needs children. Neither parent works outside the home anymore, this lady told me “we adopt special needs kids for the money, when they hit 18, they will be out of here”. I reported this to CPS,at the time, knowing these parents were not adopting for the love of the kids, rather they are a paycheck instead and CPS did nothing to stop the adoptions. The family is like vultures trying to foster any special needs child they can, in hopes of adopting later. The family has a brand new van and they go on vacation twice a yr.

Sarah Bube July 14, 2015 at 6:33 pm - Reply

I would have to agree it is broken I lost two of my children for 17 years never gave up the fight both have mental dusabilities and one was adopted her brother never was just bounced around and never shown love by anyone and is still very aggressive behavior even as adults. Someone needs to make this stop.

firstgranny July 14, 2015 at 9:00 am - Reply

Over the years I have learned just how corrupt the system truly is.  I have been fighting for my stolen granddaughter for the past eleven years and will never give up.  Taken at age five, now 15 and adopted for several years, she is our legally kidnapped child.  Adopted by a family that I am certain was aware how much she was cared for and very loved.  She was also special needs.  Having been born with a foreshortened right femur, her leg did not grow as fast as the left leg.  However, we had taken her to the world’s best doctor.  This is not disputed by anyone.  He said she was an easy fix and would only require two (maybe three) surgeries to have both legs even by the time she was grown.  However, by the time she was in fifth grade we had heard she already had had six surgeries.  She had been taken to the Shriners in Chicago for her surgeries.  The Shriners had already in the past when she was still with our family admitted they were not as good as the world’s best doctor we had taken her to.  This great doctor’s staff had also admitted to us that they fix the Shriners mistakes.  So where was the concern and best interest of the child in the care of my grandchild?  I certainly have not seen it.  She is a meal ticket for the family that adopted her.  This family also had adopted other children.  I had also been told that one of the children had a grandparent that was allowed to come and see their grandchild.  But that grand parent  did not want the grandchild.  I fought for my grandchild and tried to adopt her out of foster care, therefore the adoptive family would not and has not permitted me to ever have a relationship with my granddaughter because they know I would tell her the truth of what happened to her.  The adoptive family parents  both have good jobs and could more than support any adopted child.  Yet they collect money for those they have adopted.  Probably enough to totally support the family.  Especially with what my granddaughter must be bringing them because she is special needs.  She also was extremely intelligent and beautiful.  They truly got a special child!

cathy sabol August 3, 2015 at 8:21 pm - Reply

These stories are getting really old and a disgrace: 
Huffington Post printed an article recently by Mirah Riben with a similar story of a child being removed from its biological family. Babies are being legally kidnapped right before our eyes by attorneys, family courts, and Child Protective Services in this mult-billion dollar adoption/foster-care industry. This is an issue that needs to be addressed nationwide.. Read on and please help us:
James Weldon -This is MY GRANDDAUGHTER who has been kept away from her REAL FAMILY for over a year and a half. This infant at 8 months old was repeatedly thrown on the sidewalk by her mother, who is still in jail, (Google Edwina Negron). We her loving, Real family just want to take care of her and give her a good life. We need help. The Dutchess County, NY, Children Family Services seems bound and determined to give my Granddaughter to the foster parents. We also need an experienced lawyer who can prove that the court and DCFS has bungled, or purposely steered these proceedings to get the outcome THEY WANT. I’M BEGGING FOR HELP FOR THIS LITTLE BABY. I’m happy to talk about this case with anyone who can help us. Thank you, Jim Weldon – Molly’s Grandpa
PLEASE HELP US AND SHARE TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE
We are a New Jersey family looking for help with our case from Family Court Dutchess County. They are holding our baby for 17 months under the auspices of foster care at the home of Juliette Garrison Koch and Daniel Koch, who have since decided they want to now adopt her, and we believe that was an agenda devised all along with CPS. Our biological baby’s name is Brooklyn Molly Negron, and the case # is 55575. We have sent many, many emails, and made numerous calls in NJ and NY to ask Dutchess County Family Court to do the right thing and return our baby to us. 
They broke the law # Search N.Y. FCT. LAW § 1017: NY Code – Section 1017: Placement of children: NO search for blood relatives was initiated at all, so our baby has not returned to her family! We made the six hour round-trip to be there at every one of the 13 hearings so far, and every single limited, supervised visitation! There are 30 upstanding relatives who would raise Molly in a minute! HELP US SOMEONE!! WE ARE BEING STONEWALLED !!
Cathy Sabol

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angel July 13, 2015 at 3:41 pm - Reply

I’m so sick of all this mess I want to throw up. The system is out of control. I would love to disturb the higher up familues that is controlling the nasty monster of this system to show them how it feels to lose your children/grandchildren.  We need to get to the streets and show them all of this mess that’s hid from the publics eye. This system needs to be in publics view instead of a hush hush system. Everyone would be shocked and amazed cause it’s suppose to be about abused and neglected children.  Well the system is now doing a pretty good job at it. Shame shame.