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Article: `Baby Richard' Rally Backs Adoptive Parents
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 9, 1994
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About 100 people rallied in the Loop on Friday in support of
"Baby Richard," urging the state's Supreme Court to keep the
3-year-old boy with his adoptive parents.
"Baby Richard has a home," Theresa Bernal, a friend of the
adoptive parents, told the crowd.
On June 16, a unanimous Supreme Court ordered the boy returned
to his biological parents, Daniella and Otakar Kirchner. The boy was
born on March 16, 1991, and has been with his adoptive parents since
he was 4 days old.
The adoptive parents are known only as "John and Jane Doe." The
DeBoer Committee for Children's Rights sponsored Friday's rally
outside the James R. Thompson Center.
For Gov. Edgar's support in the case, the ...