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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July 16, 2007 9:33 p.m.
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July 16, 2007 4:36 p.m.
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.
July 16, 2007 4:30 p.m.