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Alleged school shooter’s mom paid $50K to adopt him from ‘drug addict’
NYPost ^ | February 27, 2018

Posted on 02/27/2018 3:17:47 PM PST by SMGFan

Mom Lynda Cruz paid $50,000 to adopt alleged school shooter Nikolas Cruz from his “drug addict” biological mother when he was just 3 days old, and then dropped another $15,000 on his younger half-brother, Zachary, when she found out the troubled mom was pregnant again, according to a report. “Nik’s biological mother was just a complete screw-up, drug addict and thief,” former friend and neighbor Trish Duvaney told RadarOnline. “I even said to Lynda: ‘You don’t know the mother’s background.’ Both children were born after one-night stands. The birth mother, she didn’t even really know who the two biological fathers were.”

Lynda was about 50 at the time, and she and husband Roger Cruz were struggling to adopt a child because of her relatively advanced age, Duvaney said.

“So she went to a lawyer and did it to where you pay the biological mother’s expenses,” she said. “You’re not directly giving money to the birth mother.”

Lynda ponied up $50,000 to get Nik, now 19, directly from the hospital when he was 3 days old — and another $15,000 to later adopt Zachary, now 18, Radar reported.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: addiction; adoption; badseed; browardcounty; cocaine; drugs; florida; lyndacruz; marijuana; nikolascruz; parkland; prostitution; rogercruz; scottisrael; trishduvaney; zacharycruz
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and the couple left an inheritance as well.
1 posted on 02/27/2018 3:17:47 PM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

The article wants people to assume the children were more or less bought. Paying medical and certain other legit expenses of the birth mother is normal in adoption proceedings. I’d be more interested in knowing whether the infants were screened for FAS.


2 posted on 02/27/2018 3:20:26 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: SMGFan

They had to buy the kids because she was 50 and her husband 62.

And this neighbor almost moved out of the neighborhood because of Cruz.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/us/nikolas-cruz-neighbor/index.html


3 posted on 02/27/2018 3:22:45 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

This really is a sad story for everyone involved. Lots of victims here for a “victimless crime”.


4 posted on 02/27/2018 3:27:06 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: SMGFan

This kid should be a character in “Brave New World.”


5 posted on 02/27/2018 3:27:43 PM PST by PGR88
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To: SMGFan

I was adopted as a result of an 18 year old girl sleeping with a travelling salesman. So what?


6 posted on 02/27/2018 3:30:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainlaend US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

From the article: “Nik displayed signs he was deeply troubled even as a toddler and that “everybody dropped the ball on him.”

“He threw my 4-month-old into the pool. My son was crawling on the back patio and he threw my son into the pool. And Nikolas was only 2 then,” she said.

That explains so much. He’s the baby of an alcoholic / drug addict mom


7 posted on 02/27/2018 3:31:10 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: lastchance

Yeah, FAS was also my first thought. He kinda has “the look,” too.


8 posted on 02/27/2018 3:31:24 PM PST by MilesVeritatis (Devote yourself to the truth, no matter where it leads you.)
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To: MilesVeritatis

Think twice b4 taking in someone else’s kid.


9 posted on 02/27/2018 3:33:27 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

First Traveling Salesman: “Did you sleep with the Farmer’s Daughter back in 1950 when we were on the road together? And did you happen to use MY name?”

Second Traveling Salesman: “Why yes, I did. I slept with her and used your name. Why do you ask?”

First Traveling Salesman: “She just died and left me her 1,000 acre farm!”

Ba-Dump-Dump. ;)


10 posted on 02/27/2018 3:34:56 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: lastchance

An Ex-SIL did something similar. She adopted two little girls from a drug-addled, ‘mother.’

Those kids are nutty. Seriously so. :(


11 posted on 02/27/2018 3:36:48 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; SMG; wagglebee; little jeremiah; Salvation

I have never been more tempted to think like a “Pro Choice” NARL-ite.

God, have mercy on me the sinner.


12 posted on 02/27/2018 3:37:55 PM PST by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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CONFESSED school shooter’s mom paid $50K to adopt him from ‘drug addict

Fixed it.


13 posted on 02/27/2018 3:38:59 PM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: SMGFan

My Dad told me that he went to Basic Training with a big chip on his shoulder.

He said the Drill Sergeants knocked that chip off.

He learned that he was responsible for his actions.

The Drill Sergeants didn’t care if Momma didn’t love you enough.

This murderer is responsible for his actions.

He was the one pulling the trigger, not his Mom or some bully or his ex-girlfriend.

He killed those people.

He planned it and executed it with ruthless efficiency.


14 posted on 02/27/2018 3:40:29 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SMGFan

Is Cruz afflicted with some kind of syndrome? I swear I’ve seen a kid that looks just like him.


15 posted on 02/27/2018 3:40:38 PM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: SMGFan

ALLEGED

Alleged.


16 posted on 02/27/2018 3:41:01 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: SMGFan

Seems like her good deed went horribly horribly wrong.


17 posted on 02/27/2018 3:42:08 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: gundog

Probably alcohol fetal syndrome & whatever the drug equivalent is!


18 posted on 02/27/2018 3:43:04 PM PST by Reily
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To: SMGFan

Fetal drug addiction syndrome.


19 posted on 02/27/2018 3:44:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: SMGFan

So, what’s the point?


20 posted on 02/27/2018 3:52:45 PM PST by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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