BBCThe women who were one day told members of a secret Christian sect in the United States that the BBC had been coercive by the church to abandon their children for adoption.
Former members say hundreds of adoption could have occurred between the fifties and nineties.
Some of the children adopted inside the church told us that they were offended and neglected in their adopted families.
Track the claims BBC investigation last year In allegations of sexual assault on children that extend in the church, which is believed to have up to 100,000 members all over the world, it is often referred to as the truth or the two. The FBI has since investigated.
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Four women – not all married at that time that they had no choice but to give up their children. Three of them were afraid that they would leave the church and sent to hell if they refused.
One of them says she was under pressure to give her child to a married couple in the church after she was raped in 1988, 17 years old.
“My fear of going to hell was so great that he forced me to make my decision to give up the child for this spouses in the church,” she told the BBC.
Another says that she was not allowed to see her infant daughter before the child was transferred forever.
The British Broadcasting Corporation also spoke to six people who abandoned adoption as children between the sixties and eighties. One of the women says that she was subjected to physical and emotional abuse in her first adopted family in the church, and she was sexually abused in the second.
Referred to adopted children – born throughout the United States – within the church as “children Baldwin” because the adoption was supervised by the governor of Baldwin, a doctor from the sect that died in 2004.
Some women will remain at his home in Oregon during pregnancy, according to a minister who used to work with Dr. Baldwin.
The exact number of children in Baldwin is unclear. The British Broadcasting Corporation spoke to the son of the late doctor, Gary Baldwin, who said that the original records are no longer available but believed that the number was “less than 200”.
He said that the mistakes were “definitely” committed by his father's examination system, but his intentions were good. Others said to them that they also remember Dr. Baldwin with pride.
Since the truth does not have an official leader, the BBC called instead of six senior officials – known as “supervisors” – for comment. We received one response. The supervisor told us any adoption he was aware of “through legal channels” and he “heard some beautiful stories.”
A woman who adopted a vision of hundreds of pictures in the album of Dr. Baldwin recalled the children who actually organized it.
Another man who has been adopted told us that he was personally linked to more than 100 children and mothers.
The church, founded in Ireland by the Scottish missionary in 1897, was built on the ministers – known as workers – spread the teachings of the New Testament through the word mouth.
Most mothers have talked about the belief that workers – the truth as an institution – should bear most of the responsibility for the shock caused by adoption.
“If you keep this child, I will go to hell.”
“Somewhere, the church went out of the path and became a worship based on fear and forced to choose,” says Milani Williams, 62, who gave up her child to adopt in January 1981.
At the age of 18, Melanie became pregnant after falling “madly in love” with a boy from her school.
Not only was the husband not married, but the father was not really a member and refused to become one. This means that Melanie has committed a “terrible sin” in the eyes of local workers.
The workers and her family decided that she could only attend the church meetings if her child gave her another family in the sect.
Melanie recalls thinking: “If I keep this child, I will go to hell. If I keep the child, I can't go home.”
She gave birth to a Catholic Hospital in Oklahoma, where she was placed in a room alone.
You remember shouting by the doctor when she started crying during labor.
Melanie was moved away before he made a sound and says she does not know if she had a girl or boy.
She left the new mother wondering if her child had died.
When she eventually discovered that the child was alive, a nurse told that she was hesitating whether she would go with adoption and wanted to carry her child.
“You cannot carry your child at all,” the response came.
Years later, Melanie managed to track her daughter – but she did not want to meet.
Deb Adadjo, 54, was also not sure to give up her child, but she felt a lot of pressure at that time to reject the workers, who threatened to ban her from church meetings – which means that you were not expelled from the church, but also ended in hell .
She became pregnant after rape in 1988.
And remember that the newborn's pregnancy, says: “I still feel it against my chest now.”
“In our last moments together, I remember only hugging her and telling her that I loved her and that I was repeatedly sorry.”
“I had to allow her to leave, I had no options.”
Depp later met her daughter, but she was no longer in regular contact.
AdadjoSherlene Eshir, 63, from Iowa, says she never stopped thinking about the daughter she felt that her parents pressed her to abandon her in 1982.
She briefly got her pregnancy and nourishing newborns before separating her.
Sherlene was celebrating a special birthday for her daughter every year.
“When her birthday comes, I will get a birthday card and twice a cake,” she says.
“I would like to imagine a lot – I wonder where it was, what it was, and what it might go through in the afternoon.”
Then in 2004, Sherlene's daughter called and met. They are close to this day.
“When we finally met, it embraced us, embraced us and embraced us,” says Sherlene.
“We are talking about two or three hours on the phone – she is an incredible woman.”
Leave the adopted children open to abuse
Those who were interviewed said that the adoption system involves a little scrutiny, and this preparation is a possibility to place offensive positions. They said when the child was on the way, Dr. Baldwin was connected to the workers for referrals, and he recommended a family in the sect to put the child.
Among the six children of Baldwin who spoke to the BBC, he faced two sexual, physical and emotional assault in their adopted families, while one of them said that she was subjected to emotional abuse by her adopting father.
One of the women said that she was removed from her first house adopted through social services due to the severe physical assault and was placed in the house of the “Sheikh” church – a person from the seniority who hold meetings in their home – and his wife. She said that the couple began to abuse her in weeks, when she was fifteen years old.
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Another woman said that she was beaten by her adopted parents on a daily basis and was sexually abused by his uncle in her adopted family when she was five years old.
Since reports on sexual assault on children on a large scale inside the church began two years ago, former and current members have begun to contact Facebook groups, including mothers and infants Baldwin.
“Mothers – I know what they feel and I have a lot of sympathy for them. I cry for their stories when they write them. But myself cried all the tears that I can cry,” Deeb says.
“It was like finding my tribe,” says Melanie. “I am no longer alone.”
“Our mothers were afraid of our embrace, and our father were ashamed of us, and the Church would only accept us if we made the final sacrifice.”
“After all these years, we will all be fine.”
