Sunday, January 13, 2008

UTAH: Utah Woman Accused of Stealing Adoption Records, January 13, 2008

KUTV-TV, Salt Lake City
January 13, 2008

Utah Woman Accused of Stealing Adoption Records

FARMINGTON - Prosecutors say a North Ogden woman stole hundreds of confidential adoption records from the clerk's office of the 2nd District Court to sell them to adopted children who hoped to identify their biological parents.

Jill Ekstrom, 43, has been charged with second-degree felony theft.

Assistant Davis County Attorney Rick Westmoreland says about 500 records on five rolls of microfilm were stolen. He says that not all the files were adoptions, but adoption records were the confidential records Ekstrom was after.

Ekstrom has no upcoming court date, but a telephone scheduling conference is set for Jan. 22.


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2 comments:

Gershom Kaligawa said...

If she wasn't going to profit off of adoptees with the information and would have passed it out to those searching I would say ROCK ON!! It wouldn't be stealing then, it would be TAKING BACK!

BUT since she was going to "sell" it to adoptees I have nothing but a middle finger for her, because I'm not someone to just be profitted off of the industry over and over again. Pfffft.

Gershom Kaligawa said...

and theres a bad binkie in there.... adopted "children" are rarely searching, maybe teens but young children aren't often.

They meant adopted adults...

bad binkie alert!