Victim


“He raped me on mattresses you would not let a dog sleep on,” I utter to the CBS news reporter.
I say this into the light.
And suddenly,
Miraculously,
I am free.

Kathleen Hoy Foley
Excerpt from
Woman In Hiding


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This website supports women who as girls and young women suffered catastrophic or traumatic pregnancies that resulted in confidential adoptions.  Women who were guaranteed anonymity and do not want contact with an adoptee.

Today, these aging women, including frail elderly women, are enduring egregious abuse from State governments that are opening court sealed adoption records and intimidating these women into forfeiting private medical and personal histories to stranger-adoptees. 

Adoption agencies are placing aging and elder women at extreme physical and emotional risk by releasing deeply intimate and identifying details to strangers claiming rights as adoptees.  (Betrayal by Catholic Charities permanently ended my life--and the lives of my family--as I knew it.) 

Adoptees seeking to satisfy their own curiosity, some looking for revenge, are hunting down and ambushing elder women and their families, dismissing as unimportant the damage and destruction they create.  (Among many cruelties, the stranger-adoptee in my situation posted my 80 year old mother's name on the internet, along with accusatory sexual insinuations.)

Despite whatever irreversible consequences may occur, society, via the media, insists on romanticizing this trend of pursuing women and forcing public exposure of past traumas.

Socially and politically this sanctioned abuse and punishment of aging and elderly women is disguised as a human rights issue for those who were placed into adoption. 

Left without social support and legal options, it is, sadly, up to the woman in hiding to protect herself the best way she can. more...