Newborn Baby Forcefully Taken From Biological Mum & Given to Adoptive Parent

A distraught new mum has spoken of her horror after her newborn son was taken from her home by officials and handed over to an adoptive mother despite changing her mind about giving the baby up for adoption.

DailyMail reports;

Kimberly Rossler, 25, from Mobile, Alabama, decided to contact a local adoption agency after discovering she was pregnant with her ‘on-off’ boyfriend Greg’s baby in October last year. She was put in touch with attorney, Donna Ames, who informed her that she had ‘the perfect’ mother in mind for her child.

In subsequent days, Kimberly was introduced to the adoptive mother – Katherine ‘Kate’ Gilliard Sharp, a ‘single businesswoman’ from Birmingham – and agreed for her to adopt her unborn son.

She claims Donna told her that she would sort out ‘all the legal stuff and paperwork’, including her ‘monthly gift’ – a special allowance that would be paid to Kimberly by Kate, as agreed by a judge.

Kimberly says, at the time, the lawyer assured her that ‘nothing was final until the baby was born’ – and that the pre-birth agreement she signed in court would simply ensure she received her ‘gift’.

She was told that she would have five days to withdraw her consent after her son’s birth, she says.

Over the next few months, the expectant mother and Kate formed a close friendship, but at the some time, Kimberly began to change her mind about giving her baby up and she confided in Kate about her concerns.

After Donna was also told of Kimberly’s worries, she apparently found the pregnant woman a counselor, who helped her to rebuild her self-esteem and enabled her to see herself as a parent.

As Kimberly became more confident about her skills as a mother, she reportedly approached Donna again and said that she wished to keep her baby – despite feeling bad about ‘letting Kate down’.

But the angry attorney would not tell her how she could back out of the adoption, she says.

‘I tried to tell her numerous times and she just brushed it off like this was nothing, like this happens,’ Kimberly tearfully told Fox Carolina in an interview at her home on Wednesday.

‘I didn’t think there was any need to sign anything, because she (Donna) told me that paperwork was not final until after he was born.’

As her son’s birth approached, Kimberly – who was certain by March that she wanted to be a mother to her unborn child – began posting potential baby names and images of baby clothes on Facebook.

In response, Donna allegedly contacted the expectant mother’s counselor and told them that Kimberly was mentally unstable and had stolen Kate’s money, according to The Huffington Post.

Kate herself also became angry at Kimberly, accusing her of stealing her cash, it is reported. Kimberly says that she had spoken to her counselor about a plan to pay Kate back the money.

On May 27, Kimberly went into labor and gave birth to her son, called James Elliot Rossler.

‘Nothing had prepared me for the intense love I felt [for him]. I finally had peace in my life… I had this unconditional love I have always wanted,’ Kimberly said.

Kimberly then took her son home. However, three weeks later, while she was breastfeeding the infant, sheriff’s deputies apparently turned up at her house and took James Elliot away. The child was then handed over to Kate.

Another three weeks on, Kimberly has not seen her son since he was taken – and says she has been told that she needed to withdraw her pre-birth consent to the adoption in writing before James Elliot’s birth, not within five days after it.

James Elliot was removed from his mother’s care at three weeks old because of ‘endangerment’ due to alleged ‘mental instability’, it is reported.

But the judge who signed the order apparently did not realize the case was an adoption.

Kimberly will attend a pretrial hearing on the case on July 24.