Stacey Vallarta in Illinois - trying to be a surrogate mother

[mervl]

Stacey Vallarta was a previously registered member here on SMO under the name "dragonflz"

Due to many inconsistent stories, I got to Googling and found the following information on her. I want to say now that she has apparently done one or two surrogacy journeys already and at least one egg donation. If that is a lie, it's hard to say but that is what she said. She is wanting to be a TS again now though!

So, here is what I dug up:

1. She posted a thread on the TS forum with a link to a photo of a pregnancy test she took. The post is here. That post includes a link to her Photobucket and the account name is "airstajon73".


2. A simple Google search of "airstajon" (as "airstajon73" provided little info), reveals this: A listing of pet rescue organizations

And that page contains this info:
Boxdog Buddies
Crestwood , IL
Email: Airstajon@yahoo.com
Website: www.Boxdogbuddies.com
Contact Person: Name: Stacey or Jon
Phone: 630 544 8757


3. I then then Googled her phone number and came up with this: Boxweiler Rescues

And that page contains this info:
Box Dog Buddies
Contact: Stacey Vallarta
Crestwood Il 60445
Phone: 630 544 8757
Web Site: http://BoxDogBuddies.com
We rescue Boxers from high kill shelters all over the United States.


4. I then took her first and last name to Google News Search and searched by all dates (link)

As you can see, these links pop up:
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/arc...p/t-17875.html

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1N1-1077E64CEAF75F35.html

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1N1-0EB0953E73F6D09C.html


Other misc information:
~She has used the name Dace.
~She is 35 years old according to some sources, having live(d) in Joliet, IL., Crestwood, IL. among other places in IL.
~Her husband's name is Jon (may be her ex or soon to be ex).
~She is apparently a certified massage therapist
~There may be more that I found but I am drawing a blank. LOL.

If for some reason the first link to the websleuths does not work in the future, here is what it says:

Mom seeking attention put baby at risk, officials say

Stacey Vallarta rushed her 4-month-old son to doctors for 10 emergency visits in 13 weeks this fall. The doctors ordered blood tests and inserted catheters, but could never find anything wrong with the otherwise thriving infant.

These unexplained emergencies might have been chalked up as overreactions by a doting mom. But when investigators who knew Vallarta's history with an older son discovered she had a new baby, the pattern suggested grave danger, according to court documents.

Nearly five years ago, a Will County Juvenile Court judge ruled that Vallarta of Joliet had systematically caused the debilitating illness of another son--a preschooler who spent so much time in the hospital, subjected to painful tests and surgeries, that his medical care cost more than $1.3 million.

The diagnosis was Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a severe and sustained form of child abuse in which a parent--almost always a mother--fakes or induces illness in a child to gain attention for herself. Vallarta permanently lost custody of that boy and his older brother, who were adopted by their maternal grandparents.

[snip]

Vallarta, 31, told the Tribune Wednesday she has never harmed her sons and will fight to regain custody of the baby.

"These allegations are outrageous," Vallarta said. "They keep bringing up the Munchausen thing ... but they never found anything. Yeah, I'm way overprotective. But all I did was love my kids."

[snip]

Will County State's Atty. Tina Brault said she doesn't know yet whether Vallarta mistreated the baby because the investigation is just starting.

But Brault said that to recommend permanent revocation of custody, the state needs to establish only "risk of harm," based on Vallarta's history and the new pattern of doctor's visits.

"I could prove the [neglect] case now just based on her past," Brault said. "In the first case, we were more reactive. Now, we can be more proactive. We can put these things together before bad things happen."

Brault first prosecuted Vallarta after doctors at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood reported her in 1999 for poisoning her son, then 3, with ipecac, a medicine used to induce vomiting.

Brault said she also wanted to pursue a criminal abuse case against Vallarta, but her supervisor decided against it.

Munchausen--identified in 1977 by a British pediatrician and named after an 18th Century baron who was an inveterate liar--remains a rare and complicated illness to diagnose. Many doctors are loathe to diagnose it, in part because the mothers appear so likable and devoted to their children, but also because it highlights the doctors' inadvertent role in the abuse: ordering invasive tests and performing unnecessary surgeries.

Vallarta's public defenders argued the boy's illnesses were real. But they could not explain why the boy's condition improved so dramatically after he left his mother's home.

Drastic improvement

In 1999, the boy was so sick he was being fed through a stomach tube. Vallarta shopped for coffins at a Joliet funeral home.

By the time Vallarta went to trial in 2000, the child was thriving in his grandparents' care, eating normally, gaining weight and not taking any medicines. The boy now is a healthy, active 8-year-old, authorities said.

The problem with abuse in Munchausen by proxy cases, experts say, is that the mothers rarely admit wrongdoing and often repeat the offense, even when it's likely they will get caught.

[last snip]

Things `didn't add up'

Cradling his 16-pound son in his arms at his Southwest Side home Wednesday, [the baby's father Steve] Coyne said he was shocked when he read the details of Vallarta's first case, because the pattern was similar what was happening to his boy.

Every week or so Vallarta would call with some new medical emergency--fever, diarrhea, vomiting--that required a trip to the doctor's office, hospital and even three trips to a chiropractor.

"A lot of things just didn't add up, and now it all makes sense," said Coyne, 33.

Vallarta blames the arguments with Coyne for her recent troubles. She said the two often disagreed about their son's care, and she denies she took him to the doctor too often.

Vallarta, who has worked on and off as a waitress, said she's changed. She is more religious, has had counseling and is devoted to her baby.

"I didn't do anything to deserve what I'm getting. It's like I'm guilty until I'm proven more guilty," she said. "I won't even be allowed to give him a Christmas present. I will fight for him until the day I die. All I know is I love my son more than anything and he belongs to me."


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...-newslocal-hed

and...

Stacey Vallarta of Joliet is accused of abusing her youngest son in a suspected case of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy -- in which a parent fakes or induces illness in a child to gain attention for himself or herself. (Tribune photo by Ed Wagner)
By Tracy Dell'Angela
Tribune Staff Writer
February 20, 2000
By all accounts, Stacey Vallarta doted on her ailing toddler, a little boy who
had been in and out of hospitals so many times that his medical bills topped $1 million. For more than two years, doctors could not explain exactly what was wrong with the fair-haired Joliet boy, why he suffered from persistent vomiting and wild weight fluctuations despite an array of tests and treatments. But at some point last summer, medical professionals at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood began to suspect a more sinister diagnosis: Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a severe and sustained form of child abuse in which a parent -- almost always a mother -- fakes or induces illness in a child to gain attention for herself.

The case displayed many of the warning signs of this strange syndrome, named after a world-renowned 18th Century baron who was an inveterate liar. It has proven a complex and controversial diagnosis in the 20 years since its identification. In this case, the signals were an exhaustive medical record that defied explanation; a sympathetic mother with a medical background who sought an unusual amount of attention from doctors; a little boy whose condition only seemed to improve when he was away from his mother.

But it was the results of a single test that transformed these suspicions into
an abuse case that is now playing out in a Will County juvenile courtroom. On
Aug. 6, 1999, medical tests revealed that Vallarta's 3-year-old son had been
given ipecac, a substance that is sold over the counter to induce vomiting in
cases of accidental poisoning.