{"id":142435,"date":"2018-04-10T07:24:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T12:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=142435"},"modified":"2018-04-10T13:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T18:50:55","slug":"woodworth-woman-faces-charges-accused-adoption-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=142435","title":{"rendered":"Woman faces charges, accused in adoption scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/KrenzBettyJo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-142496\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/KrenzBettyJo-1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/KrenzBettyJo-1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/KrenzBettyJo-1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/KrenzBettyJo-1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown\u00a0 (WDAY) Authorities have issued a\u00a0 warrant\u00a0 for a Stutsman County resident, accused in an adoption scam.<\/p>\n<p>WDAY reports\u00a0 Betty Jo Krenz of Woodworth has been accused by mothers of staging adoptions, taking money, but never producing a baby.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday felony charges were filed against her.<\/p>\n<p>Perspective moms say she took photos of children that did not belong to her and used them to mislead families ready to adopt.<\/p>\n<p>The families say Krenz used her background as a Spirit Lake social worker to produce fake adoption papers.<\/p>\n<p>In court documents filed Monday states that Krenz told one &#8216;mom,&#8217; she was heavily involved in the Savanna Greywind case and expected to get custody of Greywind&#8217;s child.<\/p>\n<p>It goes so far as to say she tried to stage that baby&#8217;s adoption, too.<\/p>\n<p>Krenz told investigators she never gained financially, claiming the families misunderstood.<\/p>\n<p>Krenz said she only put Native American mothers in contact with good families.<\/p>\n<p>Krenz now faces a felony and misdemeanor count of theft, and another felony for using personal information without permission.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal complaint says she took between $1,000 and $10,000 from those families.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted Krenz could get 10 years in prison, plus $20,000 in fines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (WDAY) Authorities have issued a\u00a0 warrant\u00a0 for a Stutsman County resident, accused in an adoption scam. WDAY reports\u00a0 Betty Jo Krenz of Woodworth has been accused by mothers of staging adoptions, taking money, but never producing a baby. On Monday felony charges were filed against her. Perspective moms say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142498,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142435\/revisions\/142498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}