Judith Leekin's house of lies unraveled in Florida on July 4, 2007. Police were called about a malnourished teenage girl who was hanging out in a grocery store. The girl had been driven 3 hours away from her house and dumped. Her mother (Judith Leekin) threatened to kill her if she told anyone about being abused/dumped. The girl had nowhere to go and just hung out in the store. She told the police stories about being restrained with zip ties and rarely allowed to leave her house. This led the police to Judith's house. 

They got a search warrant and found handcuffs, zip ties and "other assorted items".  They found five teenagers and four mentally disabled adults. All of them were starving. None of

This guest blog was submitted by Emily Peery in response to our contest asking what changes our readers would like to see in the world of domestic or inter-country adoption. Emily, a native of western New York state who now lives in Utah, has three siblings who were adopted from Romania when she was in college. She and her husband adopted their son, now three, as an infant through a domestic open adoption. As they began to work on their second adoption, Emily was frustrated at the lack information and resources for adoptive families in Utah. She started a Web site, Adoption Utah, and says her goal is to create a nationwide conference to help families learn about their options as they seek to expand their families.