Joyce Sterkel Ranch For Kids. I Do not Like, nor Trust Joyce Sterkel, then again that's just my opinion.

"Russia's Foreign Ministry has again called on U.S. officials to allow them entry to a ranch in Montana where they claim American parents "dump" unwanted Russian adopted children.

"We demand permission for Pavel Astakhov to visit the U.S. Ranch for Kids orphanage to inspect how Russian children live there," the ministry said Thursday in a statement on its Twitter account, referring to Russia's children's rights ombudsman.

The Ranch for Kids in Eureka, Mont., has become the latest lightning rod in a tense battle between the United States and Russia over intercountry adoptions. Russian officials have complained loudly about alleged abuses of Russian children at the hands of their adoptive American parents. Astakhav claims 19 Russian children have died in the custody of American parents over the past decade.

On its website, the Ranch for Kids describes itself as "a respite care home for adopted children who are experiencing difficulties in their families due to reactive attachment disorder, prenatal exposure to alcohol and drugs [or] struggling with adoption and post institutional issues."

Astakhov arrived unannounced at the gates of the Ranch for Kids last June with a Russian television camera crew in tow.

"We did not let them in," Joyce Sterkel, who heads the Ranch for Kids, told ABC News. "They came, and I politely declined their visit. I said this is not a good time. I understood that they were doing a publicity stunt."

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/russian-officials-entry-ranch-claim-us-parents-dump/story?id=17292132#.UGFUJI1mSKU

I have been telling you about this for Years. Joyce Sterkel Ranch for Kids Eureka Montana. Crystal Cox has been Exposing Joyce Sterkel for years and has been criticized. I am also telling the Absolute TRUTH about Randy Wilson and what he has done to put his children in danger without proper medical care, more on that coming soon.

"HELENA, Mont. — On one side of the gate stood a group of Russian government officials with a Moscow television crew in tow, demanding entry into the ranch that one of them had called “a trash can for unwanted children.”

On the other side, indoors and away from the camera, were Joyce Sterkel and the 25 adopted children under her care at the Ranch For Kids in remote northwestern Montana.


In the decade that the ranch for troubled adopted children from foreign countries has operated, it has been lauded by parents, advocates and the press as a refuge for adoptive parents to bring their children when they have nowhere else to go. But on June 28, some of the outrage and suspicion that Russians have toward U.S. adoptions of their children landed on its doorstep.

At Sterkel’s gate were Russian children rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov and human rights envoy Konstantin Dolgov. Astakhov claimed in comments carried by the news agency RIA Novosti that the children at Sterkel’s ranch near the Canadian border were completely isolated from the outside world and questioned whether they were getting the necessary care or treatment.

Sterkel, who bristles at Astakhov’s claims and says he is wrong on every count, suspected she was being set up for a made-for TV confrontation for political gain in Russia. She decided that they wouldn’t step foot on her property without State Department officials, parental permission and an independent film crew on hand to document the visit.

Dolgov spoke of the Montana visit in July 5 comments carried by the Interfax news agency.

“We regret that we have been denied access. For all our respect for American law we think there are channels which must allow Russian officials to visit Russian citizens. All of these children are Russian citizens,” he said.

Sterkel said she is concerned that they will try to make good on their promise to try again after a bilateral adoption agreement between the U.S. and Russia wends its way through the ratification process.

“This is a test case. This is to test the integrity of the bilateral agreement to see if they have the muscle to come onto American soil and push their way in,” Sterkel said. “I think they want to see if they really can come in and visit children without parental consent.”

The agreement, which was signed last year by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was approved by Russia’s lower parliamentary body on Tuesday and still must go through the upper house and President Vladimir Putin. Its text has not been publicly released, but a draft was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

The agreement would allow a U.S. adoption of a Russian child to occur only through authorized adoptions agencies. The adoption agency would be required to monitor the child’s conditions and upbringing and report back to Russia on the child’s development.

Russia would provide the prospective parents with all available information on the social situation and medical history of the child, along with a description of any special needs the child has."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/montana-ranch-becomes-focal-point-for-russian-officials-outrage-over-adoptions/2012/07/11/gJQAjcPOcW_story.html

Joyce Sterkel is full of it claiming that she is in the right in any way. She is using these children for personal gain from what I have heard for years.