BY ROBERT BOCZKIEWICZ, For The Oklahoman
DENVER — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that four years in prison is not too long for a Muskogee woman convicted of adoption fraud by preying on desperate couples who wanted to adopt a baby.
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Davanna Dotson’s claim that a four-year prison term was unreasonable for scamming couples by taking their money and not intending to give them a child.
One of the couples had hired Oklahoma City adoption attorney Julie Demastus as their intermediary with Dotson and paid Dotson more than $4,700, the court ruling states.
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