Court Deals Birth Mother Blow in Fight for Adopted Twins

Raleigh, N.C. — A Florida appellate court has upheld a decision to terminate the parental rights of a woman charged with kidnapping her twins from their adoptive parents last December.

Allison Lee Quets, 49, has been indicted on two counts of international parental kidnapping after her twins, who were 17 months old at the time, weren't returned to their adoptive parents in Apex after a routine weekend visit. Quets was arrested a week later in Ottawa, Ontario, and the children were returned to the Apex couple.

Quets has been fighting for custody of the children since shortly after giving them up for adoption. She has said she signed the adoption papers under duress and was ill after a suffering medical problems during her pregnancy.

The Florida First District Court of Appeals recently upheld a lower court's ruling terminating Quets' parental rights in the case. Her supporters have started a petition drive to have the court issue an opinion in the case, which would allow them to appeal it to the state Supreme Court.

Quets is being held without bond at the Franklin County Jail.

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Sunne and methinks... Also in that same show, when she signed the adoption papers the second time the adoptive parents were not even in the state of Florida. Allison called and left the a voicemail to come get them and they had to make other arrangements for the babies until they could get there to Florida. Allison left them at the lawyers office and went on vacation!!!! There was no duress...the courts have made a right and true decision.

Mom on Call
July 16, 2007 9:33 p.m.

methinks - A couple of months ago, Ms. Quets was on a talk show (Montel)with her attorney and her sister. They gave the same story that you've read; however, Montel asked about the second time she signed the adoption papers, which neither she nor her attorney had mentioned during their statements. Ms. Quets said that a couple of days later she was sick and decided to give them up for adoption a second time. I know very little about the disease she says she had, but her story wasn't believable. She did not do a great job of explaning her actions except to say she was ill.

Sunne
July 16, 2007 4:52 p.m.

I think that the courts made the right decision. My Dad was given up for adoption when he was a baby, and as a Mother of 2 I will never understand how you can carry a precious child that the Lord has blessed you with and give it up, or harm it in anyway. There are so many women out there that truly want children and cannot have them.

Granny
July 16, 2007 4:43 p.m.

Sunne, I have not heard that before. Where did you get your info? You have more than any that I have seen and would love to read it myself.

methinks
July 16, 2007 4:36 p.m.

SWW/Rev RB- I have seen your comments on other pages and generally agreed with them. If not, I at least saw your compassion shine through. NOT anymore.

To talk about adoptive parenting being successful and then talking about animals? That is an insult to all adoptive parents (and children)!

I am the mother of both biological and adoptive children- and i do not love one more than the other. I have three beautiful children that i love with all my heart. While i would not give up the memory of carrying and giving birth, that is NOT why i love my child (that would be saying that i HAD love love them because of that, wouldn't it?) I love my children for the wonderful individuals they are becoming, not because of their DNA!

People who think like that are the ones who truly do not understand what REAL parents are- they are not defined by DNA, but by the unconditional love and nurturing they provide. How very sad a world you must live in to define family so narrowly.

susjomiller
July 16, 2007 4:30 p.m.