Preying on Hope: Part II

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True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

For families seeking to adopt, Tara Lee’s Always Hope Pregnancy and Education Center was an ideal option. Not only did Tara organize matches between prospective families and birth mothers quickly, but she also prioritized providing emotional and financial support for the birth moms. Sure, Tara was a bit disorganized. And hard to track down. But she was busy organizing adoptions and tending to her own family. Or so everyone thought. That would change when a number of Tara's clients connected online. And then, they discovered that Tara was not at all who she seemed. A Somethin’ Else Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey cheek listeners, this is the second part of praying on hope.
0:10.2	If you missed the first part, that means you're trying to skip a week.
0:13.9	And why would you do it like that?
0:15.6	Nah, it's cool, no hard feelings.
0:18.6	But ordinarily skipping a week would work, but since this is a two-parter, you'll want
0:22.6	to listen to the first episode which dropped last week on the feed.
0:26.6	And if you did listen to the first part, I'm sorry you had to sit through all of this.
0:32.1	Enjoy the episode.
0:34.8	Looking back at it, there are things that were questionable, but we hadn't been through
0:38.5	the process before.
0:40.3	This is Adam Bell's Thomas.
0:41.8	In early 2017, he and his husband Kyle Bell's Thomas were working with Tara Lee to adopt
0:46.9	their first child.
0:48.8	She had given us a set amount of what the birth mother fees were going to be, and then
0:53.8	that money ran out as it got closer to the adoption.
0:56.4	And she needed a little bit more money here and needed a little bit more money there.
0:59.7	And out of fear of losing this baby because there's no rules or there's no contract or
1:05.3	there's nothing behind it, we were like, hey yeah, here's another $500, here's another
1:08.8	$600.
1:10.1	Adam and Kyle connected with Tara through Facebook.
1:13.1	It was a little bit of her union.
1:15.1	Kyle had also gone to middle school with her.
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