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Date Posted: 02:51:28 12/12/11 Mon
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's message, "Update on Teandrea Watson" on 19:22:31 02/18/11 Fri
>Teandrea is up to no good again. Before she went to prison,she gave birth to a baby girl. The child's father and his family have been caring for her since. She is 3 years old and was just ripped away from the only family this little girl has known. Her aunt is one of my best friends and I am really concerned for her niece and entire family. If anyone has any information or if Teandrea has scammed you personally,please let's get in contact. I know the family is pursuing and fighting to get the baby back.
>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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>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]
>
>SRC="http://imgsrv.wbbm780.com/image/DbGraphic/200907/1
>309747.jpg?1248969814">
>
>
>[> [> 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???????
>
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>
>[> [> [> [> [> 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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