MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — A Skagit County couple made their first court appearances on charges they abused their daughter to death at their home in Sedro-Woolley.Larry and Carri Williams’ 13-year-old daughter Hanna, adopted from Ethiopia, died of hypothermia in May. When police were called to the couple’s home in a gated community in Sedro-Woolley,... Read more
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — The parents of 13-year-old Hanna Williams were taken into custody Thursday evening accused of starving their daughter and keeping her locked outside. Hanna Williams was found dead in her backyard on May 12, naked and wrapped in a sheet. She had been living with her adoptive parents since coming to America from Ethiopia... Read more
Several members of the Ethiopian community want answers in the shocking death of a 13-year-old Skagit County girl who died of Hypothermia in her adoptive parents back yard. “We just want the truth,” said Mulumebet Retta, President of the Ethiopian Community Mutual Association in Seattle. Hana Grace-Rose Williams was found dead on May 12. She has been living with... Read more
SEDRO WOOLLEY, Wash. – An investigation into possible neglect is under way after an adopted 13-year-old girl died at a home in Skagit County. Hana Grace Williams, who was adopted from Ethiopia in 2008, was found dead on May 12 in the yard of her home. The Skagit County Medical Examiner’s Office said she died of hypothermia. A source close to the... Read more
by AndreaPoe: NEW YORK – Ethiopia is poised to overtake China as the number one country of origin for foreign adoptees in the United States. Matches between orphans and families have been on the increase in what’s widely been recognized a one of the most successful intercountry adoption programs in recent years. However, many adoption experts are now pointing to signs... Read more
(VOA): Ethiopia is cutting back by as much as 90 percent the number of inter-country adoptions it will allow, as part of an effort to clean up a system rife with fraud and corruption. Adoption agencies and children’s advocates are concerned the cutbacks will leave many Ethiopian orphans without the last-resort option of an adoptive home abroad. Ethiopia’s Ministry of... Read more
A Minnesota-based adoption agency had its license to work in Ethiopia revoked by the government there, according to a letter posted (Read The Revocation Letters at the bottom ) this week on the U.S. State Department’s website here. The letter, dated December 9, 2010, says the agency Better Futures Adoption Services (BFAS), “has been involved in child trafficking.” The letter is... Read more
The African country is sending record numbers of children to the U.S. NEW YORK — As the overall number of international adoptions by Americans plummets, one country — Ethiopia — is emphatically bucking the trend, sending record numbers of children to the U.S. while winning praise for improving orphans’ prospects at home. It’s a remarkable, little-publicized trend, unfolding in an ... Read more
A Beaufort-area teenager is earning a laundry list of achievements and deserves a real good pat-on-the-back. She recently claimed second place in a national Christian speech contest. But there’s something much more wowing about the story: three years ago she couldn’t even speak a word of English. It’s a stride the 14-year-old credits to faith, family, and... Read more
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