Adoption deception
Sec. 9.5. A person who is a birth mother, or a woman who holds
herself out to be a birth mother, and who knowingly or intentionally
benefits from adoption related expenses paid:
(1) when the person knows or should have known that the
person is not pregnant;
(2) by or on behalf of a prospective adoptive parent who is
unaware that at the same time another prospective adoptive
parent is also incurring adoption related expenses described
under section 9(b) of this chapter in an effort to adopt the same
child; or
(3) when the person does not intend to make an adoptive
placement;
commits adoption deception, a Class A misdemeanor. In addition to
any other penalty imposed under this section, a court may order the
person who commits adoption deception to make restitution to a
prospective adoptive parent, attorney, or licensed child placing
agency that incurs an expense as a result of the offense.
As added by P.L.200-1999, SEC.33. Amended by P.L.61-2003,
SEC.21.
Last modified: May 24, 2006