Web of Deceit

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Victoria Corderi talks with couples who had hoped to find a birth mother through independent adoptions online. They thought they found the perfect person, but after giving their money and their trust, a cold-hearted scam was exposed that left them all devastated. Originally aired on NBC on July 7, 2006.

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0:00.0	I'm totally committed to this adoption and I want you and Laurie to be the mommy and daddy
0:12.0	to this side.
0:13.0	I would like to see her, but I feel she should be placed in your arms as she is your baby.
0:17.0	They are reading the words of a woman who has promised them a child.
0:20.6	I felt such a bond with you and I want you to adopt your baby.
0:24.4	You are the only couple that I am pursuing.
0:26.2	This baby is not mine.
0:27.4	She's yours.
0:28.9	I'm one woman to another, the gift of motherhood.
0:32.8	I know I have found the mommy and daddy for this baby and I know God had picked you for
0:38.0	us.
0:42.2	Karen and Mark Mann to spent years trying to become parents.
0:46.0	It's all I've ever wanted out of life was to be a wife and a mom.
0:50.1	First, unsuccessful treatments for infertility.
0:53.3	Then, two adoptions that fell through.
0:56.4	Heartbreak after heartbreak.
0:58.1	The frustration of am I ever going to be a mom?
1:01.8	So it's been a tough nasty road.
1:03.3	It has.
1:04.3	It has.
1:05.3	They thought the long wait was almost over.
1:07.7	When in the fall of 2005, they met a woman looking for a couple just like them, a loving
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