Two successive Baltimore County judges have delayed ruling on a child custody case involving a 7-year old girl who does not want to continue court-ordered visitations with the lesbian lover with whom her adoptive mother broke up after a live-in relationship that lasted from 1987 to 2004.
In February, a court found that the mother’s former lover is also the child’s de facto parent, and required visitation with the child every Wednesday and every other weekend – a ruling that was upheld this month.
Court records indicate that a court-appointed social worker reported that the forced overnight visits were causing the girl “acute underlying turmoil” and that they were triggering “separation threats and anxiety … at this time.” The social worker, Cheryl Taylor, also notes that “the girl told everybody involved in the case -- including her mother, her mother's former partner and the family pediatrician -- that she does not want the visits to continue,” according to The Washington Times.
Despite the child’s express wishes – according to testimony, she wrote a note to her mother last Christmas asking for “a dad and a dog” - homosexual rights groups and the American Civil Liberties Union are championing the former lover’s cause.
A hearing in the case is scheduled for January 28, 2007. Whatever the outcome, the social worker assigned to the case has recommended ongoing psychotherapy for the little girl.
http://thestilettoblog.com/2006/11/22/the-daily-blade--thankful-for-the-first-amendment.aspx Such things must always turn such a ugly head.....there are many of children in the world who want a daddy and puppy but are not granted such things, but this littile girls lot in life seems to make the reality so much bitter to me.
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