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Setback for Quets: She must pay

The effort by Allison Quets to win back the twins she put up for adoption and then kidnapped from the adoptive parents was dealt another blow by a recent court order.

Updated: Mar. 25, 2008 5:26 AM | Full story

Quets continues fight for children

Despite legal reverses, Allison Quets still hopes to regain custody of the twins she bore.

Updated: Mar. 4, 2008 5:03 AM | Full story

Quets' visitation bid blocked

Lawyer says mother who let twins be adopted will likely keep trying for visits.

Updated: Jan. 25, 2008 5:33 AM | Full story

Judge closes Quets hearing on visitation

Allison Quets' most recent legal attempt to be reunified with the twins she gave birth to, put up for adoption and later kidnapped happened behind closed doors.

Updated: Jan. 3, 2008 5:33 AM | Full story

Apex couple wants visitation hearing closed

The adoptive parents are fighting their twins' birth mother; she seeks regular visits.

Updated: Dec. 22, 2007 2:41 AM | Full story

Quets gets 5 years' probation

Allison Quets is sentenced to five years of probation for kidnapping her twins from their adoptive parents, but has not abandoned her hope of regaining them.

Updated: Dec. 19, 2007 5:11 AM | Full story

Quets timeline

NOVEMBER: Allison Quets becomes pregnant through in vitro fertilization from an unknown donor. Later, before the twins are born, Quets decides to give the male up for adoption and begins discussions with the Kevin and Denise Needham of Apex.

Updated: Dec. 19, 2007 2:40 AM | Full story

New lawyer with Quets for sentencing

Reasons for the change are a mystery as the birth mother prepares for Tuesday's hearing.

Updated: Dec. 17, 2007 10:05 AM | Full story

Quets' guilty plea surprises supporters

Her action acknowledges she went to Canada with twins who are at the center of a custody fight. Until a sentencing hearing set for December, Quets is free to travel in North Carolina and Florida.

Updated: Sep. 15, 2007 3:27 AM | Full story

A pregnancy begins an ordeal

A chronology of the Quets case.

Updated: Sep. 15, 2007 4:01 AM | Full story

Quets' backers fight custody ruling

Wake County Briefs:Supporters of Allison Quets, the Florida woman charged with kidnapping the twins she put up for adoption, are fighting a court ruling that denied her custody of the children.

Updated: Jul. 17, 2007 5:05 AM | Full story

Quets suit will stay sealed

Appeals court agrees adoption privacy pertains in the case.

Updated: Apr. 10, 2007 2:45 AM | Full story

Quets gets support in her battle for twins

Allison Quets' fight to regain custody of her twins has put her behind bars. But sympathy for her situation follows her on the Internet, in letters and into the visiting area at the Franklin County jail.

Updated: Mar. 18, 2007 3:43 AM | Full story

Quets gets a new lawyer

Triangle Briefs: Allison Quets has a new attorney.

Updated: Mar. 1, 2007 3:03 AM | Full story

Quets indicted on kidnapping charges

Allison Quets, the birth mother who fled to Canada with the twins she gave up for adoption, was indicted Wednesday on two counts of international parental kidnapping.

Updated: Feb. 22, 2007 2:44 AM | Full story

Judge rules Quets stays in jail

Attorneys for kidnapping suspect Allison Quets assailed prosecutors' depiction of her as a woman who plotted for months before fleeing with the twins she had given up for adoption. Regardless, U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan ruled Thursday that Quets should not be released from jail.

Updated: Feb. 9, 2007 6:14 AM | Full story

Lawyer calls for Quets' release

House arrest sought for mother.

Updated: Feb. 2, 2007 3:05 AM | Full story

Judge seals Quets' lawsuit

Adoption case kept from public.

Updated: Feb. 1, 2007 2:45 AM | Full story

Quets stalked her twins' adopters, prosecutor says

Allison Quets, obsessed with the twins she gave up, stalked the Apex couple who adopted them before taking the infants to Canada in late December, a prosecutor said Friday.

Updated: Jan. 27, 2007 5:18 AM | Full story

Web site pleads Quets' case

There's now a Web site dedicated to reuniting Allison Quets with the twins she gave up for adoption and is accused of kidnapping.

Updated: Jan. 27, 2007 3:23 AM | Full story

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