Apart from the obviously infuriating scam itself, another thing I've noticed about these scammers is that they spend the ill-gotten money mostly on luxury items. You scammed people in such a cruel manner just to get yourself a fancy handbag and some earrings? Also, her response to the question 'Did the birth mother Stacey even exist?' was 'In my heart, she did'. That's the most self-absorbed admission of guilt I've ever had! I doubt she has the capacity to be truly remorseful.
Everything about her screams psychopath. She's impulsive, narcissistic, manipulative, and lacking remorse or empathy. It's easy to see why she would exploit society's most vulnerable people and then spend her ill-gotten money on luxury goods - psychopaths are egocentric, they think they are grandiose and above everyone, to them it's "me, me, me". She couldn't see anything better to spend money on than herself.
Yes i always find it kind of strange that people put whatever effort into scamming a large amount of money but imo waste all of it on expensive holidays & designer clothes. I see so often when someone is caught in a fairly quick time (under 5 years) they usually don't have anything left.
I said the same thing but when it was mentioned that the prison (Alabama) she was to serve it at was the kicker. That prison is the worst recorded prison in the U.S. It's so bad that the government is starting to get involved.
20:03 that’s quite an interesting part of the punishment; to record 40 separate victim impact statements with no mistakes. And she tries to omit portions of them and had to do it again. Good, that’s the least she could do in addition to her relatively short prison time. Anyway, great content as always, and I’m looking forward to the next video!
I have never heard anything like that before, but I love it. The judge was obviously completely frustrated by the limits of the law in what punishment he could give her and had to get creative to pile on as much punishment as he could. Also very good balancing on his part because reading out loud could not be construed as cruel or unusual punishment so it would stand up.
i was about to comment the same thing! i think more judges need to take notes from this case with that punishment. now i'm interested on other cases where judges have done things similar to that!
Tara was obviously a creepy control freak on top of being a scammer. Though it baffles me that her victims were so underinformed on what is and is not normal in terms of medical care as well as adoption services.
@@ComedyLoverGirlprobably why it was so effective. If you consider the targets of the scheme, they unfortunately made the perfect marks. I just had a kid myself, but it was a rough road getting there. And people on that road are super vulnerable. Any sign of hope can end up being worth chasing, or spending money on. I'm with the judge, she deserved FAR more time.
Imagine having four kids, yet try to buy a snowmobile and expensive jewelry with checks you know will bounce. Also, how on earth were these people allowed to adopt children with their criminal record?
Crimes with parents/adoption agencies are always worse than any type of crime. A parent is the one thing a child trusts unconditionally. They are incapable of even conceiving these people are capable of betraying them. Most serial killers have shitty parents. There's a reason child molesters are despised even by hardened criminals, as many of them were abused themselves, usually by family. When trying to solve a problem, you go to the source. Many of society's problem can be traced to upbringing, especially those related to hate related crimes. And these are the kids that survive bad parents. tldr; bad parents are the cause of many of society's ills. P.S.: fuck this woman. Not only she must have ruined her own, she messed with honest would-be parents.
These kinds of people don't consider the consequences of their actions. They want what they want and they're going to do anything to get it. Tara seems like a classic psychopath, to be honest. Intelligent and manipulative, superficially charismatic, impulsive, lacking in empathy and remorse.
I love the part of the sentence that requires her to read the forty victim impact statements out loud with no mistakes and tape them. For a person with a conscience that would have been almost worse than the ten years. For Tara, however, it probably made no impact.
In such cases, money is not the primary loss. The primary loss is that of hope. Of a child that will complete the family. Most people who choose adoption have previously had tragic pregnancy losses or cannot get pregnant due to medical reasons. So they have the hope of a new, happy future with the possible child and to take that away from them is just so cruel and for what ? A designer handbag ?
Can't believe how disgusting Tara is to have taken advantage of the most vulnerable people in society to fund her conspicuous consumption. But more than that I'm appalled that this was ever allowed by law. Private adoptions should not be allowed. This is a legal decision that impacts the rest of a human being's life. Babies aren't commodities to be bought and sold privately, they're people with rights, and any plans to transfer guardianship should always be overseen by authorities, period.
this is easily the most fucked up criminal scheme I've ever heard of. good GOD. i also love this channel so much and look forward to watching it grow :)
All scammers are scum bags but this one is particularly cruel. Having a baby or adopting one cuts right to the heart in terms of emotional involvement. Taking peoples money is bad enough, but playing with peoples hopes and dreams to this extent is just so cruel and wicked.
For some, yes, but regulatory bodies and industry standards organizations could step things up to educate the public. Also, in their defense, honest & decent people who really haven’t dealt with ruthless fraudsters (and who weren’t raised with skepticism/distrust) are more likely to trust people generally.
If the adoption falls through, I would assume all of the fees get refunded (minus the commission), otherwise the birth mother can't just back down. I mean, a contract's been signed and everything
By law, adoptive parents cannot buy a child. All they can do is pay for medical and life expenses (rent, food, appliances, etc) of the pregnant woman until she gives birth. This is simply them choosing to support a woman during her pregnancy, NOT the purchasing of the baby itself. So if the pregnant woman decides not to give the baby up for adoption after all, there’s nothing legally wrong with that. Morally? A whole different question. But legally, they cannot be compelled to give up their baby. If you think this is ripe for exploitation, you’d be right. 🥺
12:55 “tricked the lawyers” isn’t the correct term. They didn’t do the proper due diligence obviously. If they had a lot of this could have been avoided. Terrible.
My best buddies parents were both adopted in the 50s or 40s, back then it was the church who facilitated finding a family. I doubt any money was exchanged, now the incentives to remove the baby before birth instead of finding it a family and people profit off of both sides.
private adoption companies are dubious at best and completely unethical at worst. i'd much rather go through DHS foster to adopt than deal with anyone remotely similar to tara.
This is why you shouldn't have a privately owned adoption company. The children's welfare will never be at the top of the list. America's unchecked capitalism is what leads to these horrors and now every conservative MP wants their country to be just like it so they can stop caring about trifling things like human welfare and decency too
@@RenegadeContext This, big time. It's just a way for greedy monsters like Tara to exploit vulnerable and often uneducated people while ripping them off for thousands.
I mean, with all the children she had, plus the two other she adopted, she could’ve definitely settled down some of the requests. And yes, I don’t believe that neither her nor her husband deserve to be parents, so they would’ve had been better off offering them in adoption to one of the many families they have scammed.
10 years is an outrageous injustice Tara gets 10 years prison sentence but Tara’s victims have to carry their heart ache and pain for the rest of their lives . How can the law justify Tara’s sentence especially when she had many past unrelated convictions for other crimes she committed . This should have been taken into consideration when she was trialed the fact that she is a career criminal , a repeat offender with no remorse and doesn’t deserve the freedom to live in society and paying restitution gives little comfort to her victims .😡🤬
love your content. it's the perfect amount of true crime without the "bloody" part of most true crime. sometimes my brain and heart needs a break from that type of content. 😅
it’s insane that some adoption agencies would rather see children parentless than raised by a same sex couple. their homophobia is more important to them than the well-being of children. it’s asinine. kyle and adam should never have had to face these barriers.
i do not trust the american adoption industry, so if i ever decide to do so, i'm going to foster-to-adopt through DHS. my mom did it with my older brother and other than normal childcare expenses, she just had to pay lawyers and court fees to initiate and finalize his adoption.
Imagine having like 5 kids, still being able to get pregnant and deciding to adopt, when people with 0 kids and have no way of getting pregnant just want 1.
This reminds me of the movie in the 80's called "Say Anything" the main characters (opposite john Cusack) father, did the same thing to vulnerable senior citizens under the guize of a private senior living facility. he took over thier money and allegedly gave them a small portion so they could live well; then hid the rest..he went to prison.. this dummy spent the money..
Clearly a clinical psychopath. I don't know whether that makes her crimes any more forgiveable, but it does explain her actions. I had a boss who had sub-clinical psychopath - frightening, but an interesting experience.
We dont use cheques in the UK like you do in America. It surprises us that you make purchases with cheques when debit and credit cards exist. If we do ever use a cheque and it doesnt clear its nt a crime.
As an actual MSW this enrages me to no end - wtf is wrong with her. This title comes with so much sway and power - that's why we are introspective at every step - she disgusts me to no end If ur sus about someone or want to report a social worker check their registration we are by law required to be registered
I would trust a corpulent person with all these tattoos to tear or scan my movie or to serve me popcorn, but certainly not to handle this child situation. Not allowing surrogacy is idiocy.
I have no sympathy for ignorant desperate homosexuals. They fell for the scam. Even a person of average intelligence would know what a scam this was from the beginning.
Apart from the obviously infuriating scam itself, another thing I've noticed about these scammers is that they spend the ill-gotten money mostly on luxury items. You scammed people in such a cruel manner just to get yourself a fancy handbag and some earrings? Also, her response to the question 'Did the birth mother Stacey even exist?' was 'In my heart, she did'. That's the most self-absorbed admission of guilt I've ever had! I doubt she has the capacity to be truly remorseful.
Everything about her screams psychopath. She's impulsive, narcissistic, manipulative, and lacking remorse or empathy. It's easy to see why she would exploit society's most vulnerable people and then spend her ill-gotten money on luxury goods - psychopaths are egocentric, they think they are grandiose and above everyone, to them it's "me, me, me". She couldn't see anything better to spend money on than herself.
Yes i always find it kind of strange that people put whatever effort into scamming a large amount of money but imo waste all of it on expensive holidays & designer clothes.
I see so often when someone is caught in a fairly quick time (under 5 years) they usually don't have anything left.
That's the hustle
this was an anna delvey wannabe
I mean... I guess even Anna Delvey was a Delvey wannabe
There is something inherently wrong with anyone who would spend $5,000 on a handbag
10 years is definitely not long enough for that evil woman.
I said the same thing but when it was mentioned that the prison (Alabama) she was to serve it at was the kicker. That prison is the worst recorded prison in the U.S. It's so bad that the government is starting to get involved.
They should leave it be and send baddies there @@GREEN.EYED.ALLYCAT
did she even exist? “in my heart she did” girl what
😂 I said the same thing cause wtf does that even mean.
Heart = bank account
20:03 that’s quite an interesting part of the punishment; to record 40 separate victim impact statements with no mistakes. And she tries to omit portions of them and had to do it again. Good, that’s the least she could do in addition to her relatively short prison time.
Anyway, great content as always, and I’m looking forward to the next video!
I have never heard anything like that before, but I love it. The judge was obviously completely frustrated by the limits of the law in what punishment he could give her and had to get creative to pile on as much punishment as he could. Also very good balancing on his part because reading out loud could not be construed as cruel or unusual punishment so it would stand up.
i was about to comment the same thing! i think more judges need to take notes from this case with that punishment.
now i'm interested on other cases where judges have done things similar to that!
Even a certified doula wouldn't be doing medical examinations, their role is all about support.
Tara was obviously a creepy control freak on top of being a scammer. Though it baffles me that her victims were so underinformed on what is and is not normal in terms of medical care as well as adoption services.
@@ComedyLoverGirlprobably why it was so effective. If you consider the targets of the scheme, they unfortunately made the perfect marks. I just had a kid myself, but it was a rough road getting there. And people on that road are super vulnerable. Any sign of hope can end up being worth chasing, or spending money on.
I'm with the judge, she deserved FAR more time.
Imagine having four kids, yet try to buy a snowmobile and expensive jewelry with checks you know will bounce. Also, how on earth were these people allowed to adopt children with their criminal record?
Crimes with parents/adoption agencies are always worse than any type of crime. A parent is the one thing a child trusts unconditionally.
They are incapable of even conceiving these people are capable of betraying them. Most serial killers have shitty parents. There's a reason child molesters are despised even by hardened criminals, as many of them were abused themselves, usually by family.
When trying to solve a problem, you go to the source. Many of society's problem can be traced to upbringing, especially those related to hate related crimes. And these are the kids that survive bad parents.
tldr; bad parents are the cause of many of society's ills.
P.S.: fuck this woman. Not only she must have ruined her own, she messed with honest would-be parents.
Criminal records? Come on… at least they are not gay!
These kinds of people don't consider the consequences of their actions. They want what they want and they're going to do anything to get it. Tara seems like a classic psychopath, to be honest. Intelligent and manipulative, superficially charismatic, impulsive, lacking in empathy and remorse.
They are doing the governments work , child trafficking to non normal people.
This whole sub comment section was “hidden”
I love the part of the sentence that requires her to read the forty victim impact statements out loud with no mistakes and tape them. For a person with a conscience that would have been almost worse than the ten years. For Tara, however, it probably made no impact.
Her convincing that 17 yo baby to give her baby up was so sad to me. She should've been charged with some kind of kidnaqqeng
In such cases, money is not the primary loss. The primary loss is that of hope. Of a child that will complete the family. Most people who choose adoption have previously had tragic pregnancy losses or cannot get pregnant due to medical reasons. So they have the hope of a new, happy future with the possible child and to take that away from them is just so cruel and for what ? A designer handbag ?
"In my heart, she existed."
Bitch, in my heart, I can fly....!? Does that mean i can!? NO.
They enjoyed that she was a bit "rough around the edges". It sounds like some of these families were beyond desperate. Sad.
Shell do it again..or something similiar..
Discovered your channel a couple of days ago. I must say, your videos are top notch and I am surprised you don't have more subscribers
Competitive market
this channel is criminally underrated
Can't believe how disgusting Tara is to have taken advantage of the most vulnerable people in society to fund her conspicuous consumption. But more than that I'm appalled that this was ever allowed by law. Private adoptions should not be allowed. This is a legal decision that impacts the rest of a human being's life. Babies aren't commodities to be bought and sold privately, they're people with rights, and any plans to transfer guardianship should always be overseen by authorities, period.
This is just unbelievably cruel and horrifying
As an adoptee I am so deeply disgusted by this horrible horrible woman
Yeah its wrong that she milked people
this is easily the most fucked up criminal scheme I've ever heard of. good GOD.
i also love this channel so much and look forward to watching it grow :)
Many women have stories like Mariah not every adoptive parent is taking a kid from someone who doesn't love them
All scammers are scum bags but this one is particularly cruel. Having a baby or adopting one cuts right to the heart in terms of emotional involvement. Taking peoples money is bad enough, but playing with peoples hopes and dreams to this extent is just so cruel and wicked.
Trying to pose with a kitchen-aid while a ci-ci's pizza box is in frame tells you everything you need to know about this creature's "authenticity"
She isn't a creature, she's human. Don't try to distance her like that.
@@randomstuff508 Humans are creatures. Creature means "created". Everything on earth is God's Creature
@@nomagcisacawe3297 then sounds like God made a mistake with her
She should have got 10 life sentences.
My god, this woman is a new level of evil!
I know how easy people can be scammed. But I will say it's also easy to background check and investigate people via the internet.
emotion overides common sense.
@@sicooper4230 yup very true unfortunately
For some, yes, but regulatory bodies and industry standards organizations could step things up to educate the public.
Also, in their defense, honest & decent people who really haven’t dealt with ruthless fraudsters (and who weren’t raised with skepticism/distrust) are more likely to trust people generally.
If the adoption falls through, I would assume all of the fees get refunded (minus the commission), otherwise the birth mother can't just back down. I mean, a contract's been signed and everything
By law, adoptive parents cannot buy a child. All they can do is pay for medical and life expenses (rent, food, appliances, etc) of the pregnant woman until she gives birth. This is simply them choosing to support a woman during her pregnancy, NOT the purchasing of the baby itself. So if the pregnant woman decides not to give the baby up for adoption after all, there’s nothing legally wrong with that.
Morally? A whole different question.
But legally, they cannot be compelled to give up their baby.
If you think this is ripe for exploitation, you’d be right. 🥺
@@HavaWMgod you people are so disgustingly ignorant
Hurting women and babies for luxury handbags and jewelry?? That's just plain evil.
12:55 “tricked the lawyers” isn’t the correct term. They didn’t do the proper due diligence obviously. If they had a lot of this could have been avoided. Terrible.
Another great video. Well done to you and your team.
The impact statement thing is a good idea. They should have made her read them every day for ten years.
My best buddies parents were both adopted in the 50s or 40s, back then it was the church who facilitated finding a family. I doubt any money was exchanged, now the incentives to remove the baby before birth instead of finding it a family and people profit off of both sides.
private adoption companies are dubious at best and completely unethical at worst. i'd much rather go through DHS foster to adopt than deal with anyone remotely similar to tara.
Finally! I get so excited when you post because I know is going to be a banger of a video
The whole recording statements thing is brilliant!!
Cat not overstate how darn much I love your channel!
If a business/sales exec is asking for $$$ daily = scam
Glad to see another awesome video. Hoping you gonna blow up your subs.
This is why you ALWAYS DRAW UP ADOPTION CONTRACTS!
This is why you shouldn't have a privately owned adoption company. The children's welfare will never be at the top of the list. America's unchecked capitalism is what leads to these horrors and now every conservative MP wants their country to be just like it so they can stop caring about trifling things like human welfare and decency too
@@RenegadeContext Yes, you're right.
@@RenegadeContext This, big time. It's just a way for greedy monsters like Tara to exploit vulnerable and often uneducated people while ripping them off for thousands.
Do you adopt children often?
I mean, with all the children she had, plus the two other she adopted, she could’ve definitely settled down some of the requests. And yes, I don’t believe that neither her nor her husband deserve to be parents, so they would’ve had been better off offering them in adoption to one of the many families they have scammed.
10 years is an outrageous injustice Tara gets 10 years prison sentence but Tara’s victims have to carry their heart ache and pain for the rest of their lives . How can the law justify Tara’s sentence especially when she had many past unrelated convictions for other crimes she committed . This should have been taken into consideration when she was trialed the fact that she is a career criminal , a repeat offender with no remorse and doesn’t deserve the freedom to live in society and paying restitution gives little comfort to her victims .😡🤬
love your content. it's the perfect amount of true crime without the "bloody" part of most true crime. sometimes my brain and heart needs a break from that type of content. 😅
I love your videos so much seriously man keep up the great work
So utterly disturbing
Impressive. Most impressive.
Montage, diction, material - all top notch.
Hell yea! Glimpse is out here giving us great content
Jail is too good.
I was more pleased when i heard that she was to serve her time in the worst prison in America. So bad the government had to get involved.
glimpse I love your video style and voice, this even keeps my adhd brain engaged which is rare. kudos.
I find it hard to feel sympathy for people that were literally willing to purchase living humans. I’d scam them too 🤷🏾♀️
How were people so ill informed!?
It's a private adoption, that's probably why. I don't think they should exist tbh.
What a pos…such a light sentence, but harsher than most people get…
it’s insane that some adoption agencies would rather see children parentless than raised by a same sex couple. their homophobia is more important to them than the well-being of children. it’s asinine. kyle and adam should never have had to face these barriers.
Welcome to america.
Getting raised by same sex parents is not good for a childs well being.
10 years prison is way too little for people like her.
this is hard to get through :-/
Mmhmm, the lawyers didn’t know Tara was scamming… suuuureeee they were shocked….. 🙄
One of the best new channels in a while. Keep it up!
I hope that one day Amglimse gets the subscribers he deserves
i do not trust the american adoption industry, so if i ever decide to do so, i'm going to foster-to-adopt through DHS. my mom did it with my older brother and other than normal childcare expenses, she just had to pay lawyers and court fees to initiate and finalize his adoption.
Tara is a heartless terrible of a human being. Thanks for bringing this story to the gullible public...like me...
Private adoption will always have arseholes … as someone who was adopted I think the state needs to come in like other countries
love your content!! keep it up!
What an absolute monster!
Imagine having like 5 kids, still being able to get pregnant and deciding to adopt, when people with 0 kids and have no way of getting pregnant just want 1.
Oh hell no she's going to hell!!
Child trafficking is evil I hope she gets what's coming to her .
that wasn't child trafficking, watch the video again
Smart move by the lawyer babes, to flip to the White Hat side before the FBI moved in.
What a monster
This reminds me of the movie in the 80's called "Say Anything" the main characters (opposite john Cusack) father, did the same thing to vulnerable senior citizens under the guize of a private senior living facility. he took over thier money and allegedly gave them a small portion so they could live well; then hid the rest..he went to prison.. this dummy spent the money..
Well she scammed the right people, in least in one case.
New sub here, I'm really enjoying your channel. Thank you!
12:23 Them lawyers would have gotten sued.
this was interesting, any chance of a video about spiders soon?
Clearly a clinical psychopath. I don't know whether that makes her crimes any more forgiveable, but it does explain her actions.
I had a boss who had sub-clinical psychopath - frightening, but an interesting experience.
justice!
Ten years is a joke. These families will suffer much longer than that.
SOME OF THESE PEOPLE JUST GULLIBLE
She needs help
We dont use cheques in the UK like you do in America. It surprises us that you make purchases with cheques when debit and credit cards exist. If we do ever use a cheque and it doesnt clear its nt a crime.
As an actual MSW this enrages me to no end - wtf is wrong with her. This title comes with so much sway and power - that's why we are introspective at every step - she disgusts me to no end
If ur sus about someone or want to report a social worker check their registration we are by law required to be registered
Detroit's most normal law abiding citizen.
Probably good friends with Gretchen Whitmore
HOLY SHIT I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!
Nothing like opening up the vid with another case of the Zulocks in the making. Messed up from top to bottom.
This is psychopathic bebaviour, my god
Off-topic aside, You sound like the narrator from Diablo IV
Phuquing evil
I’m not easily shocked but this story is shocking! How could she do that?
I’m thinking about making a similar video but hacking documentary focused
🤷🏻♂️
Why are you telling them? Just make it.
Are you the voice from They Will Kill You channel? Such lovely dulcet tones!
No its not him. In some of the vids, he presents himself.
I was thinking the same thing. The voice sucks you into the video.
They Will Kill You is English
Why is a middleman necessary?
Because they gotta profit off human misery.
“In my heart she did” is a crazyy response… that’s women’s logic you know
Melissa Caddick 2.0
So many delusional people. Sad.
i hope you’re not referring the the victims who were scammed and emotionally manipulated by a monster…
Yep I think they are talking about them. Tbf they are delusional, that’s how this women got away with it.
@@fidelio9301they were desperate for a child, not delusional.
So Kyle was bisexual and had a crush on Tara? That is what I got from the bit about them being close.
You know bisexual means yes he likes women also
I got the impression they became friends. Why would you think he had a crush on her?
drink some water mate
Aagghhh! Drop the deepened voice with added vocal fry…it’s horrible, I can’t listen! 😖
my urge to victim blame is peaking
And by speaking up about it, you're still telling on yourself.
I would trust a corpulent person with all these tattoos to tear or scan my movie or to serve me popcorn, but certainly not to handle this child situation. Not allowing surrogacy is idiocy.
5:14 lol....that's a black baby
*And ???*
So?
Your point?
I like your videos but recently you have upped that coarse voice of yours, which kinda makes it difficult to understand your words.
I like Tara. These suckeas had it coming. Tara's a boss. Super cute too.
Hi Tara.
Hi Tara’s husband.
another great vid. team day 1
I have no sympathy for ignorant desperate homosexuals. They fell for the scam. Even a person of average intelligence would know what a scam this was from the beginning.
I don't even understand where they get the money from..