When you adopt a child, you take over all parental rights, which are relinquished by the child’s birth parents. Adopting a child gives you all of the same rights as the child’s birth parents, and it can occur at any point during a child’s life, including just after birth or well into a child’s teen years.
Both foster parents and guardians can adopt children already in their care or children who they aren’t fostering or acting as guardians of. Unfortunately, this was not the case with Jacob and Laura.
The adoptive parents of 5-year-old Landen were arrested and charged with t0rture and beating death the boy. After the boy’s death, the adoptive parents reportedly sought to create Fundraiser to pay for their legal fees. Read the full story here ▶
