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November 15, 2007
U.S. State Department Acting Like KGB in the Ukraine
I just got this letter from a long time reader. She was in the Ukraine to
adopt a child. The child was conceived in vitro through a surrogate.
When she went to the embassy to present her new baby's birth certificate,
a
State Department official accused her of human trafficking and called the
Ukrainian police!
The State Department's ineptness got Jeanette arrested. She spent some
time
in jail, and now will be formally charged.
The State Department got her into this mess and, to make matters worse,
isn't helping her out of it either. She's been a longtime reader of The
Jawa, although rarely comments, she sends me tips from time to time.
I'd appreciate the help with this one. You'd expect the same if it
happened
to you.
Please contact the U.S. State Department on Jeanette's behalf here and the
Kiev embassy here.
Her letter is below.
UPDATE: Cristi Li has more details at Townhall.com
Friends I had hoped to keep this part of my life private but it seems I am
no longer able too. As a few of you know I was going to the Ukraine to
adopt a child. Well the real truth of it is I had a child using a
surrogate. The child is not genticly related to my husband or myself. I
felt that this information was private and didn't want to burden my
daughter with this unnessary information.
However now i must reveal the truth. Surrogacy is legal in the Ukraine
http://en.surrogacy-ukraine.com.
After my daughter was born and the
surrogate signed away all rights (even though the baby was not her gentic
child) I got a birth certificate in my and my husbands name. I went to the
US consolate here in Kiev.
You are not going to beleive what they have done to me. They accused me of
having a fruadulent birth cettifcare. They called the Ukrianian police and
child wealfae. When the hospital ISIDA where I had made arraments for all
of this tried to contact the US consulate they refused to speak to them.
It
seems thruth doesn't matter I was arrested for trafficng in persons and my
daughter was taken from me.
I am innocent of these charges and I don't understand why the US consulate
felt nesscary to do this for me. But now I'm trapped in an old soviet
sytem. Proof as in do***entation of what I did was legal doesn't seem to
matter.I was detained in a cell that was dimaly lit with no food water or
heat for three days. Sometine I was locked in a closet with just a peep
hole. I don't now why. They realeased me with just 100 dollars. They still
have my wedding ring, my cell phone, my computer and my credit cards. I
owe
my landlord rent. I am using what money I have to email everyone I know.
My
husband has contacted CNN and other news agencies but they can't beleive
the consulate has done this to me.
Tomarrow I will be formaly charged with traffcing in persons. A crime that
is up to 15 years in jail. Why the state departement refuses to help me I
don't undrstand.
Please everyone write to the state department and the news. Don't let this
happen to me and my daughter. The US Consulate should not be acting like
the KGB!!
Jeanette Runyon
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