A Texas woman running an adoption agency was jailed after she reportedly tried to buy unborn babies from two Tarrant County inmates, Law & Crime reports.
Jody Hall, 68, is under fire after detectives from the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office intercepted communications on a jail tablet between Hall and a 29-year-old pregnant woman and a 24-year-old pregnant woman.
According to one message, Hall said to the 24-year-old inmate, “I’ve helped a lot of girls like yourself. We have families who cannot have children that would love to adopt your child … We will put $100 weekly on your books and you can spend part of it on the tablet or whatever you wish to buy.”
Buying and selling kids is illegal in Texas.
Hall reportedly introduced herself as the “Director of the Adoption Agency that you have signed with.”
However, Hall turned up the heat on the 29-year-old woman who had received upwards of $800 in her commissary from Hall.
In May, the woman decided not to give her baby to Hall once born. That seemingly infuriated Hall who wrote: “…you’re in jail and a drug addict. You are a scammer…and I will be telling the prosecutor in your case all about how this family supported you since November and you scammed them WITH THE HELP OF YOUR BOYFRIEND,” Hall allegedly wrote. “He’s got pictures all over FB of him holding the baby. You are such a liar!!!”
Hall continued to harass the woman saying, “I don’t need birth moms that lie to me just to get financial support,” Hall allegedly wrote. “And I can’t give you anymore if he’s (the father of the child) not willing to sign the paperwork. That means he wants the baby if he’s the father.”
Hall, who founded Adoptions International, Inc. in 1995 and is the executive director, is out on bond and charged with trying to buy or sell a child.
#Clique, we’ve heard about putting money on people’s books in jail, but trading babies for commissary cash is a bit diabolical.
