Monday, June 22, 2009

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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