Unconventional Means

Mandy claimed that all the cute babies from China and Korea were taken, plus none of the adoption agencies would allow “a woman in her obviously deranged mental state,” as quoted to me by a Ms. Anne Reynolds, a caseworker for Trinity Adoptions Inc., to adopt one of their kids.

Mandy told me she was not physically capable of carrying a baby to term, so she tried asking a male friend to donate sperm to a surrogate mother but that didn’t work out. Then she asked another male friend to do the same, and he did, but ended up falling for the woman he’d impregnated, left his then-wife in order to be with her, and the new couple decided they didn’t want to give their offspring to Mandy after all. Having exhausted all of her options, she tells me, she finally decided to use unconventional means to adopt, which is when she went onto Craig’s List. That’s where she found Samuel.