Mommie
10-11-2007, 11:55 PM
There is an old thread on this site from me on 6/2004. It refers to when Orson Mozes use to be the International Adoption Facilitator for Linda Zuflacht, Attorney (owner/operator) of ASA.
We adopted three older Russian children on January 18, 2001. Natasha will be 18 next month, Lidia is 16, and Sergai is 15.
In fact, Zuflacht uses our case (not by specific last name) in her CA Santa Barbara Superior Court lawsuit against Mozes as evidence that he was treating her agency's clients unprofessionally.
Many times my husband and I asked Mozes if our children had other siblings. He always replied "no". After we arrived in the Kostroma Region of Russia, we found their sister, Alonya, had turned 16 (the age of adulthood), and had left the orphanage three days prior to our arrival. OF COURSE WE WANTED TO KEEP OUR CHILDREN'S ALREADY SPLINTERED FAMILY TOGETHER. However, we needed INS papers for Alonya, passport etc.
Natasha is very upset that now that she is 18, she has no clue as to where Alonya is. The address we have for her is now seven years old. Our children have totally forgotten their Russian.
We know that Alonya got married, and has a son, Artoym, who is now approximately five years old. We had a Russian contact in Moscow who kept in contact with the children's orphanage director. Our Russian contact kept in contact with the director. But now our contact is out of the adoption business. She worked for ASA, and Zuflacht had stated that Russian adoptions were too difficult, and they were not going to facilitate them any longer.
I now work behind the scenes to try to get international adoption laws and regulations in place.
Our children suffered terribly during our adoption! They are my heroes!
We adopted three older Russian children on January 18, 2001. Natasha will be 18 next month, Lidia is 16, and Sergai is 15.
In fact, Zuflacht uses our case (not by specific last name) in her CA Santa Barbara Superior Court lawsuit against Mozes as evidence that he was treating her agency's clients unprofessionally.
Many times my husband and I asked Mozes if our children had other siblings. He always replied "no". After we arrived in the Kostroma Region of Russia, we found their sister, Alonya, had turned 16 (the age of adulthood), and had left the orphanage three days prior to our arrival. OF COURSE WE WANTED TO KEEP OUR CHILDREN'S ALREADY SPLINTERED FAMILY TOGETHER. However, we needed INS papers for Alonya, passport etc.
Natasha is very upset that now that she is 18, she has no clue as to where Alonya is. The address we have for her is now seven years old. Our children have totally forgotten their Russian.
We know that Alonya got married, and has a son, Artoym, who is now approximately five years old. We had a Russian contact in Moscow who kept in contact with the children's orphanage director. Our Russian contact kept in contact with the director. But now our contact is out of the adoption business. She worked for ASA, and Zuflacht had stated that Russian adoptions were too difficult, and they were not going to facilitate them any longer.
I now work behind the scenes to try to get international adoption laws and regulations in place.
Our children suffered terribly during our adoption! They are my heroes!
