Posted on 03/25/2011 5:11:34 PM PDT by workerbee
LOS ANGELES -- A judge issued a tentative written order Friday allowing a woman so badly brain damaged by medical errors during childbirth that she can no longer walk, talk or eat temporary visitation with her 4-year-old triplets.
Superior Court Judge Frederick C. Shaller issued the ruling after a two-week court hearing over the parental rights of Abbie Dorn, a 34-year-old who is being cared for by her parents at their Myrtle Beach, S.C., home. The order will stand until a trial date is set in the case, said Dorn's attorney, Lisa Helfend Meyer.
Dorn's parents, who are suing for permanent visitation, want the children to visit for two weeks every summer and a week in the fall and spring, but an attorney for Dorn's ex-husband argued during a hearing earlier this week that their mother was so badly injured giving birth that she is no longer capable of being a parent.
A call to Vicki Greene, the attorney for Abbie Dorn's ex-husband, did not immediately return a call Friday.
During the hearing's closing arguments on Thursday, the attorney for Dorn's family said that although Dorn may be incapable of taking part in a traditional mother-child relationship, that doesn't mean she should be shut out from holding her children, watching them grow and bonding with them.
"They can call her mommy and, most of all, they can tell her they love her," said Meyer.
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hubby sounds like a peach
I would like to know the amount of the mal practice award and where it went.. something tells me there is money involved in this.. and BTW the husband is a DOG
I guess I can somewhat understand his own... lack of “devotion”... in such circumstances. But to (seemingly) deny his children the very existence of their own mother, who suffered so while giving them life??? That’s pathological.
So he divorced and abandoned his wife in her hour of greatest need. He’s the one who shouldn’t be allowed to see the children.
I just want say “Bravo!” for your posting etiquette. It always seems to me important to note that when an AP story is posted on Fox that it is indeed Mentioned so one knows ahead of time that the story is written through the political eyes of the AP. While I wish Fox would drop AP stories, until it does then at least it should be noted that the “AP Fox” is reporting from within the hen house.
I guess her parents love her, anyway.
That foolish man has probably not figured out that his kids may well grow up to hate him.
There is a FReeper who likes to post very angry screeds about evil women who destroy men. I hope to remember this story to show him that his knife has two edges. Neither men nor women hold the advantage in the marital relationship.
“For better or worse “ just another covenant to be broken
“A year later her husband, Dan Dorn, divorced her because he believed she would never recover. He is raising their children at his Los Angeles home.”
“She is an unfit grandmother,” Greene said at one point, adding that Cohen wants to take on the role of parent whenever the children visit their mother and to fill them with unrealistic expectations that their mother might recover.”
Nonsense. No good person has a problem with this. If what is quoted in the story is correct, he’s got a cookie on the side. When I was twenty I might believe it. I’m a lot older now, and I don’t fall for the lines anymore.
Oh my, so sad. I know someone who came very close to this. She had a baby last year and immediately went into a coma for two weeks from a traumatic birth. It was months before they knew the extent of her brain damage. She didn’t even know she had her longed for baby. After great medical care she is completely normal but lost months of memory. She is so grateful to be alive.
Even if he has begun another... “relationship”.... It just makes no sense that he would deny his children their own mother (or she, them). Why would he do that? Is he ashamed? Is there something about his particular upbringing or “culture”, as it were, that makes him want to erase her existence?
In the comments after the article one person states the father is ultra conservative Jewish and that Jewish law allows him to move on to find a wife for companionship and to raise the children. I had never heard this. Do they not promise marriage until death?
I’m glad for your friend that it turned out so well. People forget that things can and still do “go wrong” during childbirth these days.
That's more tactful than I would have put it.
I'm always amazed when parents - like this tool - do incredibly stupid things when their children are young. Do they not understand that one day those kids are going to understand exactly what a douche Mom or Dad was being?
Yes, but that would force him to answer a host of questions about why 'mommy doesn't live with them', why 'he doesn't love mommy any more', and the ringer 'Daddy, if I get broke are you going to throw me away, too?'
He would expose himself to their lack of trust in him for the rest of their lives, and they would grow up, ever insecure (which they will, likely, anyway).
I'm not judging because I do not know the circumstances completely, but at best it's going to get mighty awkward for him.
For that alone, I am unwilling to judge him harshly at this point, if at all.
None of us know the individuals involved, or details of this situation.
It is quite properly being decided by the court system.IMHO.
It never fails to amaze me that people in such a horrific situation cannot find even a little grace to extend to one another.
This guy makes Newt Gingrich look good.
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