Sandy Musser's Adoption Reform work began in 1976 soon after she joined the Adoption Forum of Philadelphia. In 1977, she became the first Branch Coodinator for Concerned United Birthparents.
Sandy is also a Charter and Lifetime member of the
American Adoptiion Congress ( AAC)
During the 80's, she founded The Adoption & Family
Reunion Center, Adoption Triangle Minstries
and The Musser Foundation.
In 1976, t
he same year Sandy joined the Adoption Forum, she was invited to speak to The Children's Bureau in Wilmington, Delaware (pictured here) and asked to share her birthmother experience with social workers and adoptive parents.
Years later, in 1993, she was sent to Federal Prison.
By standing firm and challenging the sealed adoption laws, she was charged with "conspiracy to defraud the goverment of confidental infor-mation" in her work of reuniting families. She turned down a liberal plea bargain.
Sandy was released in March 1994 - shown here celebrat-ing with some of her birth-mother friends.
Following her prison term, she was sentenced to two months house arrest, with an electronic 'ankle device,' and served 3 years probation.
Though her rights were restored in 1997, she was no longer permitted to do search work and forced to close the Adoption & Family Reunion Center.
She is now retired, living in Florida and raising her great-grandson.
The true story of Sandy's "Indecent Indictment" and
America's Adoption Travesty is told in her book
TO PRISON WITH LOVE
Used copies available through
amazon.com or half.com
For more information about her biography and
adoption activism work, including some
of the speeches she presented
around the country, go to:
