The Audience

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Gabby has a nasty habit of. It offers babies up to couples who want to adopt... but it is a hoax, and the couples' hopes suddenly dashed. Now, people are under pressure to stop them, and she hopes, perhaps In Vain , to get medical help.

In the United States, it is increasingly common for couples who want to adopt a baby to self-promote on Social Media , in The Hope of preparing for connection with a pregnant woman, a child up for adoption. Last Summer , I spoke with several couples who had done this successfully - or so it seemed. All of the Instagram message from a young woman in Georgia had received, and offers you exactly what you wanted.

Unfortunately, the images are on The Woman Instagram accounts were stolen, and behind every avatar Gabby was, now, with 24, was promising a child That doesn't exist. Each of the accounts included in an observer list is full of needy families.

I wrote, and was hoping That you may be Gabby asked them to stop deceiving people.

I saw in your house, read the stories of the grieving couples, the fight were already fragile, your infertility. Would you realize the damage That had done it. You would be ashamed of. Perhaps you would apologize even to.

After the article was published, Good Morning America invited to repeat one of Gabby's victim, Samantha Stewart , on their Morning News show, the story she had told me.

But four days after Samantha blinked back tears, had, in front of four million viewers, Gabby struck again. The Larter Family in Iowa received your Messages and replied, giving her the article, which was widely used under the assumption Community .

news Larters adoption page on Facebook by Gabby's account, It seemed That nothing could stop them. But people are now trying. They range from complete strangers to close Family and a TV psychologist.

Four years ago, Gabby's brother, Paul, received some disturbing Facebook Messages about his youngest sister. A woman wrote That she had met Gabby a few times over the summer, do you think That she was going to adopt Gabby's unborn child - she had stopped even, to focus on your fertility treatment, on this assumption. To you have claimed to put a crib and Gabby, then a High School student, shopping for baby clothes.

But eventually, you will realize That you had been tricked.

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Since then repeated the same scenario many times. In fact, Gabby said, she started When she was 16, and from an estimation, they deceived hundreds of pairs has.

Paul have not seen Gabby since about two years, but he and his other sister still get Facebook Messages from your victims. So in October of last year, they decided to act in the only way That could think like them.

Three Days before Halloween, as the other families in the United States are hoarding sweets and plan their costumes, they started a blog and a single post:

"We, Gabby's Family , knows why she does these things. We have talked with her, asked her to stop, tried to tell her how much you hurt the people (including your own Family ). But you just do not listen," reads the blog post.

"We do not believe That there is any financial gain. She simply enjoys hurting people. "

Amy is a Senior and Kylie Zavadil Gabby avatars know well, through their work with adoptive parents. They run an adoption website, and began to collect The Names of the customers they had cheated, with the initial goal of a lawsuit against you.

you were among the many people, the Gabby Family searched for on Social Media . But instead of contacting her siblings, Kylie's father, Gen.

What Gene said to them made them wonder whether a lawsuit was The Best solution for the problem.

He explained That Gabby had problems with their physical and Mental Health . You had surgery on your heart, he said, That made him reluctant to take her phone away if she needed help, and he didn't earn enough working at Walmart to pay for psychotherapy, it is clearly necessary.

Amy is a Senior and Kylie Zavadil lead to the adoption for my child site, When I talk-he tells me That Gabby's heart is not to mean problems That you are pregnant, and That she may die young.

"she has constantly deceived me," he sighs. "Or maybe you had to really believe That she was going to stop every time you told me That you did it. There are times were if you didn't do it, but something in her brain tells her That she needs to be pregnant, and she can't be. Overwhelming You. "

also, He says That he means now Gabby has removed the data, what you should not be able to get on The Internet to people looking, to take.

As you said to Gene, Amy and Kylie thought That it couldn't hurt to stop Gabby, and to ask you. She wasn't the usual assumption of a cheater: it was not about the money. To be attention seemed to be what she was.

The Women took turns to call. Slowly she began to open up and speak, she began, on a regular basis.

Amy then Gabby put in contact with a producer from the Dr. Phil TV show, the Gabby therapy, if you took. Dr. Phil Mcgraw is a well-known name In America for his long-running Talk Show , the people put their problems in front of a live audience.

Amy spoke to me in December, on the weekend, she flew to California with Gabby and her father to film the episode. She saw it as a last resort for The Family - the only way to get the health care Gabby must.

"I think she needs some significant help, some real help," Gene agreed. "I'm not asking for handouts, I am willing to do all That work all hours, or to shift to her The Help she needs. I think she probably has a limited life, and I want you to blossom as a person within That life. I think she deserves it. "

The two-part show, with the title of The False assumption That aired This Week .

"I have a lot of shows about lies, fraud and deception over The Years ," Dr. Phil opens. "But I've never been a not-so. "

Gabby is reluctant to go to on The Set . It is locked and the manufacturer says he can't remember The Last time he had a fleeting guest. Gene seems to be exhausted.

The people promised to fake babies, and The Woman whose photos were stolen, in order to enable this, waiting for Gabby on the stage. She's not coming, it does, however, remain in your seat for long. It provides only a few answers.

in Spite of this, Gabby is treated with the sympathy of a betrayed woman, Lauren, who was promised is non-existent twins. "I have a big heart for Mental Health and special needs, and it breaks my heart That you are in this invisible prison," she told The Audience . "I don't want you to feel imprisoned in your own mind. It is sad. "

Gabby found The Experience of being on the Dr. Phil exhausting. "It was not Worth It , because I have to see him again, thank God, and I will help, I would like to," she says.

In a series of calls, she tells me about her life, her attitude varies from irritated reserved. But she always seems to be less Mature than her 24 years.

I ask the question: many of your systems of want to know. Why did you do it - why did she claim to be pregnant?

"I was in a dark place, and I wanted attention and someone to talk to," she says. She is not able to have children because of her Heart Condition , she continues, and she wanted to speak to women in a similar position.

"makes It easy for me to talk to someone. I just sit at home all day. I have no friends, so... I would not say That it will do something - it is someone to talk to. "

I thought of Samantha Stewart , Gabby is a victim, who struggled to talk about their conversations, without breaking into tears. to say

But in spite of me, you can feel The Pain of the childless women, Gabby struggles to find any sympathy for those who cheated you. When I ask if she wants to apologize, she immediately closes The Conversation down.

Clips of Gabby Dr. Phil episodes on YouTube have uploaded, also generate little sympathy for you. The comments below are mostly vicious, perhaps wrongly so, given the problems she has experienced in her life.

I ask Gabby if she pretended to be pregnant, since the filming of The Show last December.

Finally, she admits That she has.

Sustainable, long-term Mental Health is to believe what Gabby and her father both That she needs, not in the short period of inpatient treatment received from her appearance on Dr. Phil. It seems she has little chance to get it.

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Source of news: bbc.com