Early one morning in 2011,
Hilary Neiman, a prominent young attorney,
was hard at work in the
offices of her successful adoption and surrogacy practice, when three agents of
the FBI entered without warning, read her Miranda rights, and informed her,
“This is Your Come to Jesus Day.”
How does one go from being
raised in a loving, ethical family, and earning an advanced education,
including in the law, had a tradition of volunteerism, to being accused in
national headlines of joining a baby- selling, human trafficking ring? It was her darkest hour.
Eventually, Hilary would
plead guilty--not to human trafficking but to wire fraud. However the media would not announce that
charge but allow the stigma of human trafficking and baby selling to remain
attached to her name. Hilary would
forfeit her license to practice law, and spend five months in the Atwood
Minimum Security Camp in Lexington, Kentucky. “Things Fall Apart” is Hilary’s
story of a young woman with nothing but the promise of a fulfilled life ahead
of her, whose childhood dream turned into a nightmare.
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