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Article: Chicago family says battle with Utah adoption agency not over; Grandmother vows to bar agency from Illinois
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- March 26, 2005
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CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago family reunited with an infant at the
center of an interstate custody battle said their fight against the
Utah adoption agency they say pressured the baby's mother into giving
up the child is not over.
They now hope to bar the agency from doing business in Illinois.
"If we can just stop these types of people from coming into
Illinois, taking our children out of Illinois and putting them in
different states, I've done my job," said Maria McDonald, the
grandmother of six-month old Tamia.
Tamia was reunited with her birth mother and grandmother Thursday
night at O'Hare International Airport.
"It's the best moment in my life," said Tamia's mother, 20-year-
old Carmen ...