PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A woman convicted of abusing her Ethiopian adoptive children was paroled Tuesday morning. Judge Jeffrey Manning paroled Kristen Barbour from her jail sentence during a hearing, but she will still be on house arrest for several months. In October, Barbour was sentenced to six to 12 months in jail, but with work
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Ethiopian Tarikuwa Lemma The Guardian In 2006, less than a year after my sisters and I were brought to America as the victims of a corrupt adoption agency, I told the Americans who were saying that they were our “forever” family that I wanted to return to Ethiopia. I didn’t want a new family, I
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By Paula Reed Ward Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A former Franklin Park couple who pleaded no contest to endangering the welfare of two Ethiopian children they adopted were sentenced today under terms of a deal they struck with prosecutors last year. Douglas and Kristen Barbour each had pleaded no contest to two counts of endangerment. Common Pleas
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BY DAREH GREGORIAN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014, 12:18 PM YANLEV/GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO The couple, who have been friends since 2000, decided to adopt a child together and went to court to add the man’s name as the girl’s…
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