“Two families who gave their children to the Easons – the Mealeys of Virginia and Gary and Lisa Barnes of Texas – came to realize the dangers of handling such transfers themselves. “It’s horribly embarrassing,” Tom Mealey says of being misled by the Easons. “The thought that I spent a career dealing with people like this is even more embarrassing. I wish we had done more.””
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Reuters Investigates - The Child Exchange
You gave your kid to predators, and all you have to say is that it’s “embarrassing” because you’re a cop and should have been better at reading them?
I think the appropriate response here is, “Holy shit, I’m a terrible human being.”