Indiana Adoption Story

Jeff couple finds Chinese adoption ‘smooth’
Lori and Todd adopted Lilliana from China, where she is believed to have been born on March 17, 2005, St. Patrick’s Day in the U.S. The girl was found abandoned on the steps of an agricultural center in her home province of Hubei, approximately four days after her birth.

“She’s been with foster parents since she was 10 days old,” Lorie said.

Lilliana Liting Hollis became a U.S. citizen last Wednesday in Chicago, when an immigration official stamped her paperwork. On the same day Lorie, an English teacher at New Albany High School, and Todd, a Jeffersonville police detective, celebrated their ninth wedding anniversary.