DAYCARE WORKER TRIES TO ADOPT OUT ONE OF HER CHARGES

A Missouri daycare provider is accused of taking a baby to Arkansas to arrange for her adoption without the knowledge of the girl’s parents. Lasonya Poindexter, 30, of Joplin, was charged Thursday. Her plot fell apart in July when the would-be adoptive parents became suspicious and reached out to the baby’s birth parents, Ashley and Christian Still, on Facebook. The Stills confirmed that they hadn’t put the girl up for adoption and didn’t know that Poindexter had taken their baby to Lincoln, Arkansas, at least four times to meet the new family. The arrest affidavit doesn’t say how Poindexter planned to explain the disappearance of the baby girl to her parents.
* Uhh … an evil clown took her?
* Your baby went down the drain?
* Your baby said she was going out for cigarettes and never came back?
* Meanwhile, the daycare manager’s thinking: “Gee we don’t seem to have as many kids here as we used to. Maybe we need to advertise more?”
* Finally, a mark on the PLUS side for Facebook.