Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 13:12:06 -0700
From: John & Denise Castellucci
Subject: Research Help is Needed
The following is an open letter by Rosalind Maya Lama.
She has asked me to post this freely. This will also be on my website
later today. [http://www.ibar.com/voices/]
Dear Friends,
Most birth mothers lost children through the combined pressures of parents, adoption agancies, and society.
Some of us who refused to relinquish our children were brought to trial and prosecuted under the Wayward Minor Act and other laws. I am
one of those mothers and I am searching for others who had the same experience. Although I know that laws of this type existed throughout
the United States, at this time I am particularly interested in collecting data on women who were separated from their children
through the use of the Wayward Minor Act or PINS in New York City, especially if they had a biracial child.
I would like to communicate with you if you were at the Lakeview Home for Unwed Mothers on Staten Island from July 1959 through February
1960 when I was there.
I would also like to hear from women who were at Lakeview during the fifties and sixties and may remember the names of staff members,
social workers, psychiatrists, and others connected with the Jewish Board of Guardians that ran the home and Louise Wise Services, the
adoption agency connected with it.
I would like to know your experiences in the court system, and whether or not you had any contact with the judges Justine Wise
Polier or Patrick J. Fogarty, a probation officer known as Miss Mandel, the psychiatrist Dr. Bertran New, Mrs. Amy Kubie of the
J.B.G. or Mrs. Ruth Panger of the Bureau of Child Welfare.
Were you committed to a mental hospital or ordered by the court to receive psychiatric treatment, for the purpose of obtaining your
signature? Was the father of your child threatened with prosecution or prosecuted? Was he also deprived of his parental rights?
I would like to hear about any racial issues surrounding forced relinquishment that you may have experienced, and I would like to know
whether or not you have found your children and what happened to them.
I would like to hear from any bi-racial adoptees whose adoption took place in N.Y.C., and especially from any bi-racial people who were
*not* adopted, but raised in foster homes or institutions administered by the Jewish Board of Guardians, the J.C.C.A. or Louise Wise
Services.
I would like very much to hear from people who worked for any of the above agencies and can provide information. In the
course of my own investigation of the system, I learned that most of the bi-racial children taken from their white mothers in the late
fifties and early sixties were never adopted, although their records were sealed in the same manner as adoptees. I believe that the
treatment of these children and their parents is one of the main reasons for the adoption agencies adamant support of closed record
policies.
My son was passed from hand to hand in foster care, placed in an unhappy adoption, and died from an overdose of drugs before I
was able to find him. I am hoping that some of you will be able to help me with my research into the persecution of unwed mothers and
fathers and their bi-racial children that will lead to an investigation of human rights abuses in the adoption system.
I will be very grateful to hear from you:
Please write:
Rosalind Maya
Lama P.O. Box 342 382 Kingston Avenue Brooklin, NY 11230
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Oregon Adoptee Rights Initiative Measure 58
Our Birth Certificate: Our Right
http://www.plumsite.com/oregon/
PO Box 353 Nehalem Oregon, 97131.
Make checks payable to Open 98;
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I AM A PROFESSIONAL SEARCHER – RE-UNITING BIRTH FAMILIES SEPERATED BY ADOPTION. I HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR 7 YEARS, AND TODAY I HEARD OF THE LAKEVIEW HOME FOR THE FIRST TIME, FROM A NEW CUSTOMER. LOUISE WISE AGENCY I HAVE TRIED TO DEAL WITH BEFORE, AS YOU ALL KNOW THEY WILL LIE TO YOU AND/OR TELL YOU NOTHING. I AM LOOKING FOR A BMOM THAT GAVE BIRTH THERE IN JUNE ’63. ANYBODY THAT WAS THERE THAT MONTH, PLEASE EMAIL AND LET’S PUT OUR HEADS TOGETHER AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO.
4/2/2004 21:35
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~ Provide a Confidential Search Service to locate your missing loved ones”
4/28/2004 22:48
Sandi Duncan is a fraud. She will take your money and lie to you.
7/22/2004 22:39
I AM NOT A FRAUD, I HAVE SOLVED OVER 500 CASES IN LAST SEVEN YEARS, HAVE PAGES AND PAGES OF REFERENCES. IF YOU TYPE IN THESE SEARCHERS NAMES THAT ARE DOING THIS TO ME, YOU WILL SEE SOME AWFUL THINGS ABOUT THEM. I CHARGE ABOUT A THIRD OF WHAT THEY RIP PEOPLE OFF FOR. THAT IS THEIR MAIN SOURCE OF DISATISFACTION. I HAVE NOT BEEN WORKING FOR A FEW MONTHS DUE TO MEDICAL REASONS (EXCEPT TO HELP SOME OTHER SEARCHERS WHO KNOW HOW GOOD I AM), BUT I WILL BE BACK!! ANYONE WANTING TO TALK TO ME CAN EMAIL ME AT sadodade@hotmail.com
9/16/2004 18:10
Does anyone know what happened to the records of The Lakeview Home?
10/8/2004 22:04
Does anyone know what happened to the records of The Lakeview Home? Email cinbow@aol.com
10/8/2004 22:05
Sandi Duncan is nothing more than a scam artist and a coward. She has taken money from a friend of mine, has produced NO results in almost two years…and refuses to return the woman’s money. She ‘guarantees’ to find the person you’re searching for or at least one family member OR you money is fully refundable…Nothing more than lies.
10/15/2004 22:31
SANDRA DRUNCAN IS A KROOK, BEING INVESTIGATED FOR STEALING MONEY FOR NO ADOPTION SEARCH INFORMATION OR FAKE ADOPTION SEARCH INFOMATION. THIS THIEF LIVES IN TEXAS.
Comment by STOLYN FROMM — 3/20/2006 @ 3:13 am
Well what they are saying is exactly right. She stole from my husabnd and I here recently. We went onto adoption.com and registared and a couple of months later she emailed us stting she had all of my husbands info and all she needed was $225.00 and as soon as she got the money she would forward all the info to us. Well coming from a single income family we couldnt just write a check that day so we had to save taht money up. So two years after emailing this ladt monthy we finally got up enough money to send to her. I mailed her a check in Feb 2006 in the amount of $225.00. We were looking on the interent and came across all these message boards bewaring us of Sandra Duncan, never saw this before we mailed the check honestly never looked. I sent her an email telling her what I had found on the internet and told her I was going to do stop payment ont he check if I didnt hear anything from her by a certain date. Well I never have heard from her again and I did do a stop payment. I thought whew she didn’t get away with my money. Well once again luck was against me we received a phone call stating that the check had been cashed at a check cashing place and that we owed them $225 + filing fees another $85. I was so heart broken when I heard this. It really pissed me off so I began searching on my own. Did it the proper way through Vital Stastics when we got a phone call from a Rosa Hyde that told me if I went to this one website David Gray’s People Finder I could search and maybe find the BM this way. Well I began searching came across this one woman called Rosa and asked is this her she said no but that I did have the middle name and the first two letters of the last name right. Well I couldn’t find anything else I was at a dead end. Tehn I got this idea to ask the web page designers help David Gray he wrote to me and said what he had wasnt enough and I should contact Jennifer with Givenright.com. Well I did and THANK GOD she was angel sent to help clean up the bad taste I had for researchers in my mouth. She told me how to do it and sent me some names. Within a couple of hours my husband was on the phone with his BM…
So if you are looking for your birth parents go through these people, they are backed by the state and I havent been able to find and slander on them other that by the you know who SANDRA DUNCAN…Yes Sandra I will never stop till I see you getting everything that you deserve I will be sure to use the interent to my advantage yes go ahead state that you did help me, but people will see who is really the lier here.
Comment by Christie Kaden — 4/27/2006 @ 10:05 am
Lakeview was run by Louise Wise Agency. Their records are now at Spence-Chapin Agency
http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/home-found-for-louise-wise-records/
http://www.modernfamilycenter.org/parr/