Boy in Custody Battle Sees Biological Mom

[emad]

Guardian

Friday December 31, 2004 3:01 PM


By RON WORD

Associated Press Writer

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A 3-year-old boy at the center of a three-way custody battle was handed over to his biological mother, leaving the couple who had been raising him since his birth in tears.

Evan Scott's mother, Amanda Hopkins, who had won a court battle, picked up the boy Thursday for a ``transitional visit'' to his new home. Hopkins lives on a Navy base in Illinois with her husband and infant daughter.

Dawn and Gene Scott, who have cared for the boy since his birth in May 2001, are still seeking to overturn a judge's order denying them custody.

``I know he is confused,'' Dawn Scott said in an interview Friday on NBC's ``Today.'' ``I know he didn't understand all this turmoil happening in his life right now.''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4703626,00.html

[Zenlitened]

1. This is so horribly cruel.

What a terrible thing to put a child through. I don't care about DNA, that boy is being ripped away from the only family he's ever known, and that's just wrong.

:cry:

[emad]

3. See this story in today's Indepenent:

Over 200 UK kids adopted in last 20 years on spurious evidence of medical experts who said that one/both of their parents had murdered a sibling. Evidence that has now proved to be total rubbish....

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=596990

[Florida_Geek]

2. Some Judge just should not be Judges.

Grrrrr

[emad]

4. See also: Italy Judge Tosses Coin for Xmas Tug-Of-Love Child

Italy Judge Tosses Coin for Xmas Tug-Of-Love Child

ROME (Reuters) - When the separated parents of a five-year old Italian boy could not agree whose house he should stay at over Christmas, a judge settled the dispute by tossing a coin, an Italian newspaper reported on Thursday.

The squabbling couple took their argument to a family disputes court a few days before Christmas and were surprised when the judge, who said there was not enough time to convene the tribunal, tossed a two-euro coin for "heads-or-tails."

"I did it in the interest of the child," Judge Carlo Alberto Agnoli was quoted as saying in Italy's leading daily newspaper Corriere della Sera.

"I certainly couldn't do like Solomon and divide the child. So I trusted to luck," said the judge who presides at a court in the northeastern town of Trento.
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=V1LCIA0PHI154CRBAELCFFA?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=7209625

[sweetladybug]

5. I wonder what the whole story is behind the birth mother getting the child

back in her custody and how long the fight has been going on for her to get custody of the child back. There could be more to the story than "the child was taken away from the only parents he knew"

[wolfgirl]

6. I heard (or read somewhere)

that the boy's birth father did not waive his rights...I believe the birth mother didn't tell him that she was placing the boy for adoption.


I believe this is a case where the birth father is pushing this, not necessarily initiated by the birth mother.

[shrike]

7. There was a post some days back by someone who claimed to

know the parties involved. Allegedly, the father was in jail at the time the advertisement was posted. And, the birth mother alleges he beat her up during their time together.

The poster also said the birth father's parents got involved and they have a lot of money, and that the birth mother's grandmother knew the adoptive parents.

Take it for what it's worth.

[Kimber Scott]

9. She began the fight to regain custody almost immediately after she

gave the child up. Apparently, the baby's father objected to the adoption and it was NEVER finalized. The couple who tried to adopt him should have been preparing themselves and the baby for this since day one.

[NorthernSpy]

8. now, 'bout those Jewish kids the pope tried to keep in Catholic families..

Before it starts raining hypocrites, allow me to point out where these supposed "best interest of the child" arguments really wind up:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1106326&mesg_id=1106326

My, just look at those denunciations of the Catholic Church! Never mind that for many of these children, the Catholic families that took them in probably were indeed "the only families they'd ever known", as the phrase goes. :eyes:

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[NorthernSpy]

11. whatever you mean to imply by that...

I've been here regularly, same as you.

:shrug:

[emad]

12. Apologising for institutional corruption inherent in religions is

a traditional sport for those in denial of history.