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Article: Adoptive Parents Urged To End Fight Over Boy
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 24, 1994
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The adoptive parents of "Baby Richard" should drop plans to
appeal the Illinois Supreme Court ruling awarding custody of the
3-year-old boy to his natural father, the father's attorney said
Thursday.
The court ruled unanimously last week that the father, Otakar
Kirchner, had been "denied knowledge of his baby's existence" and
ordered that the child, called "Baby Richard" in court documents, be
given to him.
The boy's adoptive parents are asking the court to reconsider
the order.
"I was hoping the adoptive parents would see the handwriting on
the wall after the unanimous decision," attorney Loren L. Heinemann
said. "They are saying it will be hard on them. It will be hard on
Otakar. ...