Twins’ plight highlights adoption concerns
by Shannon Harrison, managing editor

If selling babies is illegal in America, how come so many people are buying them?

Tranda Wecker, who has three older children and an impending divorce, gave her newborn twins up for adoption. I understand giving up a child if a person believes her baby would be better off in another home, but this woman had the nerve to tell a tabloid, “What would a man want with a woman who has five kids?”

Wecker turned her babies over to the Angel Heart Adoption Agency, which advertises babies for sale.

I think this agency should be called Greedy Heart instead of angel heart.

One couple paid $6,000 to adopt the twins. The money was not supposed to go to Wecker directly, but it could be used for expenses like childbirth.

Wecker, by law, could change her mind and take her babies back within 90 days. So, when she started pushing the couple for money to finance her divorce, they started to get uneasy.

Wecker then told the couple that she was taking the twins for two nights to say goodbye, but apparently she had other plans.

This conniving, greedy woman got a better bid for her children.

After these children had bonded with this couple for two months, she went behind their backs and sold the twins to another couple for $12,500.

I don’t understand some people who walk this world. These babies are her children, not some car she can sell to the highest bidder. Judge Judy would have a field day with this mental case.

Now, these poor babies are in foster care—their fourth home on two continents in six months—until something can be decided.

Where is the father in all of this? Does he care that his babies are being treated like the newest toy on the market or that they are being bounced around from home to home?

To make matters worse, Wecker decided that she wants her babies back. This woman doesn’t deserve to have her babies anywhere near her, especially after the way she has pawned them off repeatedly for money.

I am appalled by this woman’s nerve. She “sells” her children to a couple, gets a better deal from another couple, and now wants them back.

If Wecker gets the twins back, it will show the world what a sad system we have. She hasn’t acted like a mother; therefore, she shouldn’t be given the chance to raise the babies.

Also, what about the two couples? They were all duped. They turned over their money expecting to receive the twins as their children. Wecker shows no mercy for the couples.

If this mother does get the children back, I wonder what bargain she’ll find for them next.