Reply #44: They adopted 2 Irish kids, and circumvented Irish law to do it. [View All]

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Justice Roberts Irish Catholic, 40-something wife (they got married late) decided against using a fertility clinic because the Catholic church considers clinic methods to be abortion (discarding fertilized eggs, etc.). His wife is rabidly Irish Catholic - step dancing lessons throughout her childhood, etc., and wanted to get some lovely blond, blue-eyed Irish kids.

The problem was that there are very few children available for adoption in Ireland, and the Irish government doesn't want them adopted by people who will take them to other countries and away from their culture. So there's an Irish law that adoptive parents must have lived (primary residence) in Ireland for at least a year before applying to adopt. So what the two Roberts did (both of them lawyers) was to pay two Irish women who had babies within a few months of each other to keep the babies and then take the babies to a Latin American country which allowed foreign adoption. The Roberts went there and adopted the Irish children and brought them back to the US.

So, NO, our unethical Chief Justice & his wife didn't adopt 3rd world children. As a lawyer, I am horrifed and disgusted that a man who see the laws of another country as something to be circumvented was named Chief Justice.