Illinois Circuit Judge Richard E. Grawey, letter to birthmother whose children were stolen into adoption by Catholic Charities agency in Peoria Illinois Debra and Diane Cordova your mother is desperately trying to find you both. She never willingly relinquished her rights . Her rights were terminated even though the records state that you were both in good physical condition at the time the courts terminated her rights to be your mother.

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I got a letter from from:

Richard E. Grawey, Circuit Judge telling me as follows:

With regard to the Court file on your adoption, it is probable that you assume that you have the right to everything in that file.

This is a correct assumption for almost all judicial files. However, adoption files are an exception to this principle.

In Illinois, the State Legislature has decided that the best policy regarding adoptions is that they be kept confidential.

Therefore section 18 of 750ILCS mandates that all adoption files be sealed after the decree for adoption has been entered

. The confidentiality of adoption records serves several purposes. The law provides anonymity and confidentiality to birthparents.

This encourages the surrender of children for adoption and serves to protect the biological parents from public disclosure of a traumatic emotional event and the possible intrusion into their private lives by the reappearance of a child given up many years before. It also serves to protect the adoptive parent from interference by the biological parents in raising the child and facilitates the formation of the integrated family unit. The confidential nature of the adoption also functions to protect the adoptee from any stigma of illegitimacy and conflicts between birth and adoptive parents.

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