RI Court Revokes Custody Rights for Illegal Immigrant

An illegal immigrant from Mexico who was deported after her 2005 conviction on child neglect and cruelty charges has permanently lost custody of her two young children, one of whom was born in Mexico, the other in Rhode Island.

The children — who have been in the custody of the state Department of Children, Youth and Families — have been living together in a Rhode Island foster home for several years and the foster parents now plan to adopt them, according to a lawyer for the DCYF. The son will be 8 in August; the daughter turned 5 last week.

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WV Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Gay Couple

The West Virginia Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a same-sex couple fighting to retain custody of an 18-month-old foster child.

In an unsigned opinion issued Friday, the court barred enforcement of a Fayette County Circuit Court order that the girl should be taken away from Kathryn Kutil and Cheryl Hess. Judge Paul Blake Jr. had ruled the child should be placed with a heterosexual couple who might adopt her.

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Fake Rockefeller "Wanted Custody"

Christian Gerhartsreiter - who called himself Clark Rockefeller - is accused of abducting seven-year-old Reigh Boss.

His British ex-wife, Sandra Boss, told a Boston court he made the threats when she said she was considering divorce.

Mr Gerhartsreiter's lawyers claim he suffers from delusions and did not know it was wrong to snatch the child.

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