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Article: Adoption agency gets another week to make case
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 4, 2005
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The fight to return an adopted baby to her birth family in Chicago
was delayed yet again Thursday.
Baby Tamia, at the center of a months-long, racially charged
custody dispute between her black mother and a Utah adoption agency,
will continue living with a white Utah family as her case challenging
the adoption drags on.
A Cherished Child Adoption Agency asked for another week to answer
allegations made by Tamia's mother and grandmother, Carmen and Maria
McDonald.
They claim Carmen McDonald was not in the proper mental condition
to have rightfully given up her 3-month-old baby in December and that
neither Maria McDonald nor other family knew of the adoption until it
was over.
Adoptive family ...