Day Care Worker Accused of Taking Baby and Putting Her Up for Adoption

(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) — A Missouri day care provider accused of taking a baby to Arkansas to arrange for her adoption without the knowledge of the girl’s parents has been charged with attempted kidnapping. Lasonya Poindexter, 30, of Joplin, was charged Thursday. Her plot fell apart in July when the would-be adoptive parents, Laura and Garry Parton, became suspicious and reached out to the baby’s birth parents, Ashley and Christian Still, on Facebook, the affidavit says. The Stills confirmed that they hadn’t put the girl up for adoption and didn’t know that Poindexter had taken their baby to Lincoln, Arkansas, at least four times to meet the Partons. According to the affidavit, the Partons wanted to adopt after suffering a miscarriage. A message left at their home wasn’t immediately returned. The Stills don’t have a listed phone number. The affidavit says Poindexter asked for money for the girl’s care during one visit to the Parton’s, about 80 miles to the south. Poindexter’s attorney didn’t immediately return phone or email messages from The Associated Press. She is in federal custody pending a detention hearing next Tuesday. The affidavit says Poindexter first contacted the Arkansas couple through a friend in June and began making arrangements for them to adopt the infant girl who along with a sibling was being left in her care a few days a week. Poindexter’s trips to Arkansas for the couple to bond with t...
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