Article: Girl may spend Christmas with social worker: judge

A girl who was abducted nine years ago is going home for the holidays-but not with her mother or father.

The girl will spend Christmas with the chief social worker in the office of Cook County Public Guardian Patrick Murphy, her court- appointed attorney.

The girl-who hasn't seen her father in nine years and has been separated from her mother for two weeks-was granted permission Wednesday by Circuit Judge Karen Shields to leave the suburban residential facility where she has been staying.

That came despite objections from lawyers for the mother, Joli Taylor, who is facing child abduction charges for taking the girl from her Midlothian home in 1991 during a custody dispute with the girl's ...

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