Adoption agency bankruptcy leaves Maritime families in limbo

Last Updated: Friday, July 17, 2009 | 11:02 AM AT Comments0Recommend5

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The sudden closure of an Ontario-based international adoption agency has left some Maritime families who were waiting to adopt Ethiopian children in limbo.

Kids Link, which runs Imagine Adoption, based in Cambridge, Ont., posted a bankruptcy notice on its website Monday. For the last two years, it had helped Canadians adopt children from Ethiopia, Ghana and Ecuador.

Bankrupt adoption agency owed money to 400 families

Imagine Adoption director Susan Hayhow is shown surrounded by children during a visit to Ethiopia.

Financial records show potential parents paid up to $25,000 to Imagine Adoption

Jennifer MacMillan

Toronto — From Friday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Friday, Jul. 17, 2009 02:28AM EDT

Acrid Whiff Of Scandal Growing From Imagine Adoption Agency's Ashes

Cars, Houses, Expenses All Subject To Scrutiny

By David Terry

What About The Families And Kids?

The strong scent of scandal began to emerge yesterday from the Cambridge-based Imagine adoption agency as an examination of the organization’s finances proceeded.

International adoptions should be allowed in Romania

International adoptions should be allowed in Romania

while this is in the interest of the child, said on Friday, President

of the Italian Committee on the Child Alessandra Mussolini in the meeting with representatives of the Romanian authorities.

"What we all want is to eliminate the children's homes and

Parents unaware kids up for adoption

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Debt mounting for Imagine Adoption

570 News/The Record Cambridge | Thursday, July 16th, 2009 5:58 am

Cambridge - There's new information this morning about the Imagine Adoption agency in Cambridge that folded earlier this week.

The company is facing huge debt. A preliminary bankrupcty report finds the company owes $80,000 for two luxury vehicles it leased. The vehicles include a Lexus and Nissan Pathfinder. The company was also renting three properties in Cambridge with payment obligations of $13,000 a month.

Bankruptcy trustee Susan Taves tells today's Record that while early accounting shows the agency has a $363,000 shortfall, that number could rise because of the $800,000 in fees collected from families who applied to adopt.

Agency folds, puts couple's adoption plans on hold

Bankruptcy trustees take over company conducting arrangements for two children

By Sarah Mclellan, Edmonton Journal, with files from the Calgary HeraldJuly 16, 2009

Tammy Campbell and her family have been planning for the arrival of two adopted children from Ethiopia for months.

She and her husband, Scott, have been collecting Ethiopian art, tasting Ethiopian food and gathering children's books about African folklore.

Local couples left with nothing but grief

ADOPTION: Bankrupt

Posted By RACHEL PUNCH, THE SUDBURY STAR

Posted 1 hour ago

Natalie and Chris Fournier turned to international adoption after trying for five years to have a child.

Alberta adoption hopefuls in limbo after Ont. firm falters

Province to aid broke agency's applicants

By Robin Summerfield, Calgary HeraldJuly 16, 2009 7:22 AMBe the first to post a comment

Delores and Shawn Bertin hold some of the paperwork they received from the adoption agency imagine adoption, which went bankrupt monday, leaving about 400 prospective families uncertain about their applications to adopt.

Photograph by: Ted Rhodes, Calgary Herald, Calgary Herald