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Date Posted: 06:03:24 06/21/11 Tue
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's message, "Update on Teandrea Watson" on 19:22:31 02/18/11 Fri
Oh wowwww. It's been years since I've been on the VOY boards just because of Teandrea Watson. I even dropped out of the Ethnic World pageant because she started harassing me so much I just figured it wasn't worth it, which I still regret because I know that it would've been such an incredible experience. Now reading all of this, it's so obvious that she was just mentally disturbed. The police officer husband, the faked last name, the constant lashing out at successful, confident, and beautiful women online and in real life? It's very obvious that this is a woman who is just miserable with herself and her life. No sarcasm intended at all: God bless you, Teandrea.
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>www.da-tulareco.org/press_release331.htm
>
>
>
>Date: August 26, 2010
>
>Woman Sentenced to 18 Months Prison for Attempted
>Child Abduction
>
>On August 26, 2010, Tulare County Superior Court Judge
>Darryl Ferguson imposed an 18 month prison sentence on
>32-year-old Teandrea Watson of Chicago, Illinois, for
>attempted child abduction after she served as the
>child’s surrogate mother.
>
>A Visalia family hired Watson to be a surrogate mother
>via the internet. Watson gave birth in Chicago and
>gave the child to the family. Later, she reported to
>the police that the Visalia family took her child. A
>Chicago judge decided that the Visalia family should
>have the child. Watson came to Visalia on two
>occasions and tried to take the child back to Chicago.
>She contacted the police, claimed that she was in town
>to pick up her daughter, and produced false court
>documents that allegedly gave her custody.
>
>Later Watson entered into a surrogacy contract over
>the internet with a family from Maryland. At some
>point, the Maryland family became suspicious and
>refused to continue with payments. The defendant
>threatened to give their baby up for adoption if they
>did not pay her. Police verified that the defendant
>was not even pregnant.Watson received a four year and
>six month prison sentence in Illinois for the theft
>crimes committed against the Maryland family.
>
>On July 26, 2010, Watson pled no contest to two counts
>of attempted child abduction. At sentencing, she was
>ordered to pay $3,100 in restitution to the Visalia
>victims as well as a $200 Restitution Fine. The
>defendant will serve the 18-month California prison
>term after she completes the Illinois term.
>
>This case was prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney
>Bethany M. Gilliland and investigated by District
>Attorney Investigator Melody Flores of the Child
>Abduction Unit and Detective Bill Diltz of the Visalia
>Police Department.
>
>
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>
>
>href="http://www.kmjnow.com/pages/landing/?blockID=2988
>64&feedID=806">http://www.kmjnow.com/pages/landing/?blo
>ckID=298864&feedID=806
>
>A troubling story out of the South Valley, where one
>couple's desire to grow their family turned into a
>living nightmare, when the woman they entrusted with
>bearing their child turned out to be a crook.
>
>For couples unable to have children on their own some
>adopt while others find a surrogate mom.
>
>That's exactly what one Visalia couple did when they
>found Teandrea Watson, 32 of Chicago, on the internet.
>
>It wasn't until after Watson gave birth to a little
>girl that their troubles began.
>
>After giving the child up to her rightful parents,
>Watson reportedly told Chicago Police that the baby
>girl was really her daughter and that the Visalia
>couple had kidnaped her.
>
>A Chicago judge ruled against Watson's claims.
>
>Not long afterward, Watson came to Visalia at least
>twice trying to get the baby back but was unsuccessful.
>
>On Thursday. Watson was sentenced to 18 months in
>prison for attempted child abduction.
>
>She'll serve out that sentence in California but not
>before she completes a 41/2 year prison stint in
>Illinois for trying to defraud a Maryland family.
>
>
>
>Trying to bury this no doubt! -- Anonymous, 10:03:00
>10/11/09 Sun [1]
>
>[> Re: nice mugshot -- Anonymous, 18:29:44 07/31/09
>Fri [1]
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>SRC="http://imgsrv.wbbm780.com/image/DbGraphic/200907/1
>309747.jpg?1248969814">
>
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>[> [> click in for story -- Anonymous, 18:47:00
>07/31/09 Fri [1]
>
>The entire story is difficult to read, it is in 9
>parts, but there is no link to keep reading, so I
>thought I would post it here. There are posts about
>this woman dating back to 2006.
>
>A 31-year-old Chicago woman is being held without
>bail, accused of ripping off a Maryland couple who
>wanted her to be a surrogate mother.
>
>WBBM's Steve Miller begins her story with some
>background, in Part One of his series, "Surrogate
>Charade."
>
>In her blog, "Adventures of Me," Teandrea Watson
>writes, "I am a kind, loving person who really tries
>to stretch the reach of my empathy..."
>
>But all one woman sees is the depth of Watson's
>perversity.
>
>"She has taken a photo of my daughter... cut off the
>head of my daughter and put it on a... superimposed it
>on a photograph of two women having oral sex, and
>uploaded that to a message board that says, 'Is this
>the kind of child that ___ is raising?' At the time my
>child was four."
>
>This woman met Teandrea Watson in the world of beauty
>pageants, and she says Watson had a hit list.
>
>"She took my photograph and uploaded it to Craigslist
>to the erotic section and solicited with my name - my
>real name, my telephone number and my address and my
>photograph - soliciting for sex... and I could not get
>one person to help me prosecute her for doing that to
>me.
>
>"I had a man show up to my house at 3 o'clock in the
>morning, trying to answer that ad."
>
>It was Teandrea Watson's mastery of the Internet that
>led her to her next move: running ads as a surrogate
>mother.
>
>A Pageant Director. Cheer Program Owner. Head of
>Spirit Association.
>
>That's how Teandrea Watson described herself on line.
>
>In the world she wanted to live in, Teandrea Watson
>was a beauty queen. A pageant winner.
>
>In fact, she was Ms. USA Rose-Illinois State Queen.
>
>We've told you about one woman who says Watson was so
>jealous of her success in pageants, she posted photos
>of the woman's children on line, their faces
>superimposed on porn.
>
>Another pageant competitor, Yvette Parrish of Texas,
>says the same kind of thing happened to her.
>
>"Next thing I knew, I started reading the most
>horrible lies and craziness about me. That I was a
>prostitute. That I had ten kids. That I'd been married
>six times. Just outrageous things."
>
>Teandrea Watson advertised herself as a surrogate
>mother, and she joined a Web site for women who were
>surrogates - or considering surrogacy.
>
>That's how she met Julianne Toogood of Australia.
>
>"There were many people involved in that group. But
>she quickly became the focus of the whole group
>because of her constant dramas with her - it turns
>out, fictional - current surrogacy."
>
>It was Watson's role as a surrogate mother that led to
>both theft charges and attempted child abduction
>charges.
>Two couples who desperately wanted a child placed
>their hopes in the hands of a Chicago woman who
>promised them a baby as a surrogate mother.
>
>But as WBBM's Steve Miller reports in Part 3 of his
>series, "Surrogate Charade," the couples paid tens of
>thousands of dollars to go through hell.
>
>The couples would rather we left their real names out
>- partly because they are embarrassed they were so
>trusting - and so betrayed.
>
>In Maryland, Joshua and Mary, were desperate for a
>child. They found Teandrea Watson's ad on the
>Internet, saying she was a surrogate mother. Her
>references checked out. References which later turned
>out to be faked, Joshua says.
>
>"We were very comfortable dealing with her, knowing
>that this person said she was reliable. And the way
>she pretended to be somebody who wanted to help us."
>
>It was to be a traditional surrogacy, with Joshua
>supplying the sperm and Teandrea Watson the egg.
>Joshua sent Watson some money.
>
>Watson faxed them a copy of her pregnancy test
>results. Then cut off communication.
>
>Joshua says the blood test turned out to be from
>Watson's previous pregnancy.
>
>They flew to Chicago in search of the truth.
>
>"We saw that she was not pregnant, or not even looking
>like somebody who had just given birth."
>
>Joshua says Teandrea Watson took them for about
>$20,000. And they still do not have the child they
>craved so desperately.
>
>Mary: "I personally would like to see her go to jail.
>My husband thinks he can get some money back."
>
>Joshua: "We will get nothing out of sending her to
>jail. This woman... she's a mother, she has kids.
>There's going to be some leniency... I just don't want
>to have this woman in my life. If there was a way that
>I could buy her a ticket to hell, I'd pay the rest of
>my life to do it."
>
>They are a husband and wife who live in California,
>and they wanted a child. Mike is a coach. Sandy is in
>the legal field. They'd already spent thousands of
>dollars, but still no children.
>
>"We were dealing with a lot of emotion. We were almost
>at the end of our journey where we were going to come
>away with no child at all."
>
>In a "state of desperation," as Mike describes it, and
>low on money, they searched the Internet ads for a
>surrogate. And found Teandrea Watson.
>
>They visited her in Chicago.
>
>"She definitely charmed us and we were taken for,
>without a doubt, that day."
>
>Mike was to supply the sperm. Teandrea would supply
>the egg as a traditional surrogate. A few months
>later, Mike and Sandy got the news they had hoped for.
>
>Teandrea was pregnant.
>
>"At this point, we're overjoyed. We're excited, and we
>felt like, OK, great. God is blessing us and we made
>the right decision."
>
>And up until the seventh month, Mike says, everything
>was great.
>
>"No signs. No red flags of even sort. And then I get
>this email from her."
>
>An email which would change their lives.
>
>A California couple believed their dreams were finally
>coming true: The Chicago woman who had agreed to be a
>surrogate mother was pregnant and about to give birth.
>
>WBBM's Steve Miller continues the story in his series,
>"Surrogate Charade."
>
>Mike and Sandy believed they were finally going to get
>the child they had wanted so much for so long.
>
>31-year-old Teandrea Watson, the woman who signed a
>contract to be a surrogate, had been paid, in part,
>and she was pregnant.
>
>Then, in the seventh month, a bombshell of an email.
>
>"She starts telling me all these crazy things, and I'm
>going, oh my God. She's going to try to keep this baby
>for herself," Mike told Newsradio 780.
>
>"And I didn't know how I was going to tell my wife.
>How am I going to break this news to my wife that our
>worst nightmare is about to come true?"
>
>Mike says he and Sandy decided to be nice, hoping
>Teandrea would change her mind. They bought her
>children Christmas presents.
>
>Still, Mike had not called in a lawyer. They weren't
>sure what a lawyer could do, at this point.
>
>"Think about it. She could disappear in a moment's
>notice. So if we decide to get other people involved,
>if we don't play by her rules and her game... keep in
>mind, we've sent her money every month. She might
>disappear. Fly down to Florida. Fly down to Texas.
>Leave the area with our child."
>
>The baby was due any day now. And even though Mike and
>Sandy in California had a contract with a surrogate
>mother, Teandrea Watson in Chicago, - and they'd been
>sending her money - she was having second thoughts.
>
>"We were in the hospital and she has the baby and it's
>just a wonderful time. And we're thinking, OK, she's
>not going to have another episode.
>
>"Well, come to find out she was plotting again."
>
>Mike says Teandrea told them she would keep the baby.
>
>Then changed her mind. Several times over the next
>couple of days.
>
>Finally, she let Mike and Sandy take the little girl.
>They spent the night at a Chicago hotel and planned to
>fly out the next day.
>
>"What Teandrea ended up doing was, she ended up filing
>a false police report against my wife and I for
>kidnapping. Child abduction."
>
>Mike and Sandy spent a day at the police station.
>Talking. Telling the story of Teandrea Watson. DCFS
>got involved.
>
>Police arrested Watson. Later, she was freed.
>
>"I paid her the remaining balance that I owed her. She
>had signed away her rights as a mother.
>
>"So six months pass by and she's plotting how she's
>going to get the child back."
>
>A California couple who trusted a Chicago woman to be
>a surrogate mother says she conned them out of
>thousands of dollars – and then put them through a
>nightmare when she decided to keep the child.
>
>When the police stepped in, the couple got the child –
>but that’s not the end of the story, as WBBM’s Steve
>Miller reports.
>
>Six months had passed, and Mike and Sandy were back in
>California with their new daughter. Thousands of miles
>away from trouble. The surrogate mother Teandrea
>Watson was in Chicago. Or so they thought.
>
>"I get a call that she is at my door. At my house. I'm
>like, 'What? You've got to be kidding me.' Because she
>showed up to our house with the police and she has all
>these falsified documents, court orders that she's
>coming to take the baby back with her and that I had
>consented to allow her to come and take the baby."
>
>Mike says he got a lawyer on the phone who was able to
>persuade police that the documents might be forged and
>that, in any case, Watson had nothing that was valid
>in California.
>
>"Well, the story doesn't end there. I wish it did, but
>it doesn't. Three months later, she comes back again.
>With more falsified court orders. More falsified
>signatures on my part.”
>
>Forged documents – notarized documents – that Watson
>allegedly had managed to get past a Cook County judge.
>
>Again, Mike says, Watson was sent away.
>
>And Mike and Sandy's daughter?
>
>"My little girl is two years old. Two-and-a-half now.
>Doing absolutely wonderful. She is the joy of our
>lives.
>
>"We're thankful. And she looks like me."
>
>Teandrea Watson - a surrogate mother - is accused of
>using forged documents to try to get the child she
>bore away from a California couple.
>
>Watson was a traditional surrogate. Really, the
>biological mother.
>
>Biological mothers do have rights, lawyers say. And a
>birth mother can change her mind and decide to keep
>the child.
>
>But Chicago attorney James Hagler, who specializes in
>family law and surrogacy, says if there’s a dispute,
>judges consider the best interests of the child - and
>what the intentions were of all the parties from the
>beginning.
>
>The problem is, Illinois has no law governing
>traditional surrogates.
>
>"Illinois doesn't really have too many reported cases
>on this, but we know the situation is out there. We
>know that people are desperately searching for
>surrogates."
>
>And Hagler says, “Sometimes the court looks on it as
>baby-buying.”
>
>The California couple who used Teandrea Watson as a
>surrogate feels like she put them through a nightmare,
>changing her mind again and again.
>
>Authorities say what tripped up Teandrea Watson was
>showing up in California with bogus court papers -
>notarized and signed by a judge - that said the
>California couple had agreed to give her the baby.
>
>And fake papers that said the father had been her
>boyfriend and that he had agreed to child support.
>
>Watson was arrested over a month ago on a California
>warrant for two counts of attempted child abduction.
>
>She was arrested at the Cook County Criminal Courts
>building, where she had just appeared on theft charges
>related to her role as surrogate for another couple.
>
>It was Internet ad that drew them in, the two couples
>who wanted a surrogate mother to bear them a child.
>Couples who say they were dragged through emotional
>hell.
>
>The Chicago woman accused of preying on those couples
>says she did nothing wrong.
>
>WBBM’s Steve Miller visited her at Cook County Jail.
>
>To get to Division 3 (pictured at left, Cook County
>Sheriff photo) where some of the female inmates are
>housed, you walk past a planter where nothing but
>weeds are growing. On the side is painted, “This 2
>Shall Pass.”
>
>Teandrea Watson says she shares a cell with one woman.
>That it’s a room with a toilet, a sink and one window,
>but she can’t see out the window.
>
>She is dressed in a light blue prison suit.
>
>“I am completely innocent,” she says. “I did nothing
>wrong.”
>
>The Maryland couple who sent her money to bear a child
>– and then there was no child?
>
>“I never told them I was pregnant,” Watson says.
>
>The Maryland couple disagrees. Watson is charged with
>theft and wire fraud in that case.
>
>On the California case? The one where she’s accused of
>attempted child abduction? Of trying to steal the
>daughter she bore as a surrogate?
>
>“I was set up,” Watson says. Set up by a Chicago
>Police detective who retaliated against her, she says,
>for going back on her word that she would act as a
>surrogate.
>
>Regrets?
>
>“That I didn’t have a better contract with the
>(California couple),” Watson says.
>
>Watson tells Newsradio 780 she has four children, not
>counting the girl she bore for the California couple.
>
>She says when all her legal woes are behind her, she
>wants to get her degree and become an accountant.
>
>WBBM asked her about graphic design - the skill she
>has used on the Internet, couples say, to help scam
>them. “You don’t need a degree for that,” she says.
>
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>
>[> [> [> Re: click in for story -- Anonymous, 13:32:14
>08/03/09 Mon [1]
>
>OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HELL??!!!!!! CYBER
>PSYCHO!!! I KNEW SHE HAD PROBLEMS BUT DAMN!!!!
>
>[Edit]
>
>[> [> [> [> Re: click in for story -- Anonymous,
>14:11:46 08/03/09 Mon [1]
>
>>OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HELL??!!!!!! CYBER
>>PSYCHO!!! I KNEW SHE HAD PROBLEMS BUT DAMN!!!!
>
>Who wants a baby from a woman looking like THIS???????
>
>[Edit]
>
>[> [> [> [> [> That is what I was thinking! Anyword on
>what happened to her since this story came out? --
>Anonymous, 17:25:59 08/08/09 Sat [1]
>
>Is she still enjoying the hospitality of Cook County
>No-tell Motel?
>
>[Edit]
>
>[> [> bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha -- Anonymous, 17:22:20
>08/08/09 Sat [1]
>
>Impressive!
>
>[Edit]
>
>[> [> [> Re: bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha -- Anonymous,
>12:57:30 08/11/09 Tue [1]
>
>>Impressive!
>
>What a complete psycho! Cyber scammers and attackers
>will eventually get caught!
>
>[Edit]
>
>[> [> [> [> Anyone know anything on this? --
>Anonymous, 10:55:08 08/22/09 Sat [1]
>
>Is TW still a guest of the county?
>
>[Edit]
>
>[> [> [> [> [> Re: Anyone know anything on this? --
>Anonymous, 21:35:01 08/22/09 Sat [1]
>
>No longer a guest of the county. Now a resident in the
>IL state pen. Sentenced to 4yrs and some change and
>not eligible for parole until 2011. You can find
>details by googling.
>
>[Edit]
>
>[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Anyone know anything on this? --
>Anonymous, 13:35:15 08/24/09 Mon [1]
>
>DAMN!!!!!
>
>[Edit]
>
>[> [> [> [> [> [> Your Google is better than mine...
>-- Anonymous, 19:28:25 08/30/09 Sun [1]
>
>I haven't been able to find anything but the articles
>already posted here.
>
>[Edit]
>
>[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Your Google is better than
>mine... -- Anonymous, 16:46:32 08/31/09 Mon [1]
>
>Step 1 - go to google and search "Illinois department
>of corrections"
>
>step 2 - Click on the first like that pops up.
>
>Step 3 - on the left hand menu click on "INMATE SEARCH"
>
>step 4 - in the search box on the right type "WATSON"
>
>step 5 - scroll up until you find "Teandrea Watson"
>
>step 6 - click on her name and then click on the blue
>toggle button labeled "query a highlighted inmate"
>
>step 7 - read the information on her sentencing
>
>[Edit]
>
>[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> here is the link for the
>Illinois Department of Corrections -- Anonymous,
>16:47:49 08/31/09 Mon [1]
>
>Google only works if you know what you are looking
>for. You have to search on the correct terms.
>
>Here is the direct link to the IL Dept of Corrections.
>
>
>href="http://www.idoc.state.il.us/">http://www.idoc.sta
>te.il.us/
>
>
>[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Wow! There's another great
>headshot... -- Anonymous, 21:21:42 09/11/09 Fri [1]
>
>Ooops...I mean MUGSHOT!!
>
>BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
>
>SRC="http://www.idoc.state.il.us/subsections/search/sho
>wfront.asp?idoc=R84832">
>
>SRC="http://www.idoc.state.il.us/subsections/search/sho
>wside.asp?idoc=R84832">
>
>[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Wow! There's another
>great headshot... -- Anonymous, 13:22:34 09/23/09 Wed
>[1]
>
>I still can't believe she's in prison! Damn!
>
>
>[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Wow! --
>Anonymous, 13:10:19 10/03/09 Sat [1]
>
>I can't believe she only got TWO Years!!
>
>Maybe when she's served her time in Illinois, they can
>successfully extradite her to California where she
>will be tried for the attempted kidnapping charge,
>along with her other crimes such as counterfeiting
>court documents or one of the other families she's
>scammed will have her arrested.
>
>I feel really sorry for all of the people she scammed.
>Was anything she said ever the truth? Now I see where
>all the money she was always bragging about came from.
>She STOLE it! Heck, she even invented a husband and
>probably the children too.
>
>One thing is obvious, they must have internet access
>there because this story keeps getting bumped to the
>bottom. Someone trying to bury the story.
>
>I hate when COMMON CRIMINALS infiltrate pageantry.
>They could do a thousand other things but the press
>always latches onto pageantry. "Beauty Queen Gone
>Bad."Two things for certain TEANDRA N. WATSON has
>never been: A BEAUTY or A QUEEN!
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