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Mar. 11, 2000

Judge Returns Battered Boy To Foster Care

DICTA On 'Family Law,' a humane result requires law-defying actions.

By Erin O'Bryan
        Unfortunately, in the protection of children all too often law and one's ethics are at odds. So begins this battle of law vs. morality. A 4-year-old boy beaten so severely by his parents that he required hospitalization on three separate occasions was about to be "reunified" with his parents. So his social worker, later accused of caring too much, kidnapped him ....

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