Teri responded no more.
But,
I forwarded this exchange on to Sue Corrigan and the other EEAC list client.
They in turn forwarded on the exchanges they were having with Mrs.
Atkinson at the same time! Sue received the following from Mrs. Atkinson from her email
at work:
Sue
-
I don't know that our experience was that much different than yours. I
believe our response to that experience is greatly different. We have our child home safe and sound and choose to move forward. I fear that dwelling on
the past will only bring you more pain.
Also, you left out a great portion of your experience which I only
recently discovered. You were in the process of adopting another
child at the same time as Nina. I'm sure this added to your stress greatly.
Others
on the Bulgarian list are not aware of this, but this is a significant factor.
I wish you and your family the best and hope that now that you have your two
adopted children home you can move forward and enjoy them.
Take care,
Teri
Sue had told very few people about her family’s Ukrainian adoption, even when the Atkinsons had
been crying to them about their travel delay. It wasn’t anybody’s business, so the
email from Mrs. Atkinson really aggravated Sue.
How had Teri gotten this information? Notice the highlighted passages ... Sue
had mentioned it in the post which triggered Teri’s response, but Teri’s
response seems to suggest she got the information from somewhere else.
Who could that be? Well, by this time, Denise knew about the Corrigans’
Ukrainian adoption.
Sue’s reply (which we have decided not to reprint here, since it goes
into some private family detail about her children) asked, as you the reader
well also might, just what her other adoption had had to do with her
difficulties with Building Blocks.
What had so incensed her, as was clear from
her public post, was the runaround she got from Denise late in the previous
summer, when she could never get a straight answer as to what was going on, what
had or hadn’t happened, and what documents were where in the process ... and
that had occurred before the Corrigan family had even begun to
consider Ukrainian adoption.
In any event, she continued, her experience with adopting independently from
Ukraine had been much more streamlined and less stressful than with Denise and
Bulgaria. She questioned, in fact, what Denise had really done to justify being
paid all that money other than hook her up with Valeri Kamenov, who had done all
the work as far as she could see.
Her email was quite civil and polite in tone, almost conciliatory, and you would
be hard-pressed to have read anything malicious or insulting into it.
So what did it earn her from Teri?
Sue
-
I find it appalling that you still do not reveal that you were adopting another
toddler at the same time!!!!!!!!!
You also don't state the terrible time you had with your son when you
brought him home.
From
this the Corrigans reached the same conclusion that we already had: that Teri
could not and did not care to engage in rational, civilized discussion about the
facts of the matter; she just wanted to inflict as much emotional pain and
suffering as she could on anyone who dared challenge her mistress.
Sue said it best, about the two of them, in a later email to us summing the
whole exchange up:
THESE
two are kooks. Do the EE LIST SERV people think BBAS are a troubled
organization? I never told you how she told me to omit part of my past ON
MY HOMESTUDY so that I would look better "on paper." I did
not do this but I am sure I was not the first divorced person she has
worked with.
She may have bought her dedicated stooges - Sue
On
top of battling it out with Daniel, Elizabeth and Sue Corrigan, the following is
the exchange between Mrs. Atkinson and the other EEAC Bulgaria list poster. This
poster had adopted a boy using Wasatch; she asked, “How Did I Get Into This
Anyway?”
Who knows? Perhaps delusions of Denise Hubbard’s
goodness and innocence were
propelling Mrs. Atkinson along.
Re the frustrating
experiences of the Corrigans, I would add that other members on this list had
horrific experiences with the same agency; prospective parents new to this list
shouldn't base their entire impression of Bulgarian adoption on how badly used
these families were.
Based on your comment (above), you obviously do not know the whole story.
You did not work with this agency, as we did. So, until you have first
hand knowledge of what these "TWO" families alledge, please refrain
from commenting on things you do not know. I believe "slander"
would describe what you are doing. There are many
significant factors that were left out by both the Corrigans and the
Cases.
Such as??????? Our
fellow EEAC Bulgaria List poster wanted to know.
From: ATKINSON
To:
Sent: Monday, July 02,
2001 10:25 AM
Subject: RE: [EEAC-BL]
waiting for child/feeling after the wait
Then why are you bad
mouthing BBAS?
The Cases and the Corrigans are really hurting those in the process of adopting
children from Bulgaria. We have no doubt that the Cases had a hand in our last
delay.
From:
To: ATKINSON
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [EEAC-BL] waiting for child/feeling after the wait
My only concern, after the Corrigan's post, was that people not generalize from
that experience and retreat from the Bulgarian children altogether. If
you find BBAS and their Bulgarian faciliators to be truthful,
straightforward, honest, efficient, involved with nurturing orphanages
and with uncorrupt, compassoinate
orphanage directors who are not currently under criminal investigation, I think
that's terrific.
To:
From: Atkinson
Duh, you didn't mention
the name, the Corrigans and Cases already did!
Like I said, if you don't have first hand knowledge, as we do, please refrain. You need to look up slander in the dictionary
From:
To: ATKINSON
Sent: 7/2/01
10:43:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: [EEAC-BL] waiting for child/feeling after the wait
well, I didn't mention BBAS by name, first of all, but thanks for threatening the charge of slander anyway.
And, secondly, I've seen the Cases's photos, of their RUSSIAN adoption, so any PR work on BBAS's behalf is lost on me.
She went on to ask us if
Mrs. Atkinson was on BBAS’s payroll. Me
too. Denise obviously needed more
stable advocates and soldiers to support her claims.
After reading this and responding, my anger
was through the roof. Daniel and
Anguel were somewhere out walking and I was inside roasting mad at this idiotic
exchange.
Well, guess what! I don’t take this lying down!
I
picked up the telephone and dialed BBAS’s number in Ohio. Debbie Bollinger answered the telephone.
This time, I got to actually use every “A”, “B”, “C”, “F”
and “S” word directly into her ear.
I
screamed “I HAVE SOME C--- calling me a baby murder on e-mail!
I’ve lost over $40,000 you F---- agency. You people are pathetic!
I’m going to sue your F---- A----, C----!”
She told me she didn’t like my language. I asked her if she had a set of virgin ears and told her to sell some
more babies. Then I hung up.
Elizabeth Case goes KA-BOOM!!!!! Real
mature, I know, earning me the title of “That Crazy Elizabeth Case” from our
good, honest agency director, Denise Hubbard.
Daniel had
by then arrived home with Anguel. They came upstairs and saw me on the computer shaking and livid.
He said “I thought we would have been home before you could see all
that. It’s been going on all
day.”
I told Daniel what I had
done and then wondered if they could sue me for harassment.
We’re still waiting.
But
we were still angry. Mrs. Atkinson
was a fool. Did she really think
she could get away with that from her job? Is this what she was paid for? Have private, hateful and wrong email exchanges about Bulgarian adoption
and her adoption agency?
Wouldn’t
her employer like to know about this — and put a stop to this waste of time?
(Especially since it was the federal government, paid for by your tax dollars
and mine)
It
wasn’t that hard locating her ISP. It
was in her email.
We merely typed
in a “www” before the rest of her email address. A website came up. We
scrolled down the website and found an email contact.
We then collected various posts that Mrs. Atkinson had posted from her work
email and our entire email exchange we had carried on with her that day. This is what we sent:
To Whom It May
Concern:
We have had some problems with an individual sending
us private e-mail from your agency. Private e-mails of a troubling and
potentially slanderous sort.
This is of great concern, seeing as this appears to
be this individual’s WORK e-mail address, and we have exchanged in some very
heated and private discussions.
We truly hope that the person sending us this e-mail
will cease and desist. As far as we are concerned, the discussion is at an
end, owing to the fact the individual is slandering us over the death of our
son in Russia.
This is what has been sent so far (and as far as we
are concerned, is at an end). These has to do with a foreign adoption
and a public post to an adoption e-mail list serve for those adopting from
Bulgaria.
We are on our home computer, so we are spending our
own time not any company time.
Here are some samples of what was sent to us ON YOUR
COMPANY’S TIME:
We never heard back directly from the ISP or the ISP
administrator (or Mrs. Atkinson’s supervisor), but we did hear indirectly that
it got back to her.
Oh well.
Stinks when you do this at your job and get tattled on.
We
also forwarded the entire exchange — including Sue Corrigan’s and the other
client’s — to the EEAC Bulgaria list administrator Ms. Beth Waggenspack. Ms. Waggenspack was not amused, but could do not more than merely suggest
we block Mrs.
Atkinson’s email addresses.
She did express some concern over our agency, however, but
did not reveal any details (those we would find out later).
Daniel
and I have continued to post on the EEAC Bulgaria list, and as for the Atkinsons,
it appears that they are still attempting to slander us publicly, with Denise
Hubbard’s backing, on the Internet. For
further details, read on.
Or
refresh your memory by going
back.
Or
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to our story