Why didn’t the foster parents adopt the child? Would have prevented this.
My concern wouldn’t be whether the father was in jail, as a reason to adopt the kid out, but whether the biological family had the means to care for the child.
I don’t want to live in a society where we rip kids out of families because they aren’t quite perfect.
Who knows why; it’s such a mess in this country.
Did you even glance at the story? They did adopt her.
Read the article. The foster parents did adopt the child.
The father’s rights were terminated since he had been sentenced for more than 10 years and the child was under 8 (TN law). And the mother waived her rights to the child.
The child’s paternal grandmother wanted custody, I don’t know why they didn’t give her to her.
But at some point the father’s sentence got commuted to 8 years, and he never waived his rights to the kid. He won in appeals court on the grounds that the court didn’t follow due process in the adoption process.
they did adopt her, the court overturned it
They did adopt her. The adoption was overturned when the dad-— who never consented to the adoption — got his prison sentence was commuted.