Excerpt from: ABC Action News (click for full article)
"It
was frustrating. We felt deceived," says "Kimberly H."
We're
calling her Kimberly H. in order to protect the identity of her little girl,
who we refer to as Zola.
Kimberly and her husband of Waterford adopted Zola two years ago, but Kimberly says
she feels betrayed by the state's Department of Human Services, or DHS, and
some adoption workers.
She
says they withheld information that Zola had sickle cell disease.
"We
asked (if she had any health issues) and they had very little information to give
us. They didn't even know why she was in foster care," she says.
Zola
was placed with Kimberly's family as a foster child when she was 6 weeks old.
Kimberly says she and her husband found out on their own that Zola had sickle
cell when she was 6 months old.
"She
should have started treatment for sickle cell when she was 2 months old. If she
had contracted pneumonia, it could have been fatal to her. I was devastated for
this sweet child who I didn't know for sure was going to be our daughter. I was
so angry. We had tried so hard to advocate for this child and the system had
blocked us at every move," she says.
"It was frustrating We felt deceived," says "Kimberly H."
We're calling her Kimberly H. in order to protect the identity of her little girl, who we refer to as Zola.
Kimberly
and her husband of Waterford adopted Zola two years ago, but Kimberly
says she feels betrayed by the state's Department of Human Services, or
DHS, and some adoption workers.
She says they withheld information that Zola had sickle cell disease.
"We
asked (if she had any health issues) and they had very little
information to give us. They didn't even know why she was in foster
care," she says.
Zola was placed with Kimberly's family as a foster child when she was 6 weeks old.
Kimberly says she and her husband found out on their own that Zola had sickle cell when she was 6 months old.
"She
should have started treatment for sickle cell when she was 2 months
old. If she had contracted pneumonia, it could have been fatal to her. I
was devastated for this sweet child who i didn't know for sure was
going to be our daughter. I was so angry. We had tried so hard to
advocate for this child and the system had blocked us at every move,"
she says.
Read more:
http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/michigan-families-file-lawsuit-over-wrongful-adoptions#ixzz2DdfCNsqx
"It was frustrating We felt deceived," says "Kimberly H."
We're calling her Kimberly H. in order to protect the identity of her little girl, who we refer to as Zola.
Kimberly
and her husband of Waterford adopted Zola two years ago, but Kimberly
says she feels betrayed by the state's Department of Human Services, or
DHS, and some adoption workers.
She says they withheld information that Zola had sickle cell disease.
"We
asked (if she had any health issues) and they had very little
information to give us. They didn't even know why she was in foster
care," she says.
Zola was placed with Kimberly's family as a foster child when she was 6 weeks old.
Kimberly says she and her husband found out on their own that Zola had sickle cell when she was 6 months old.
"She
should have started treatment for sickle cell when she was 2 months
old. If she had contracted pneumonia, it could have been fatal to her. I
was devastated for this sweet child who i didn't know for sure was
going to be our daughter. I was so angry. We had tried so hard to
advocate for this child and the system had blocked us at every move,"
she says.
Read more:
http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/michigan-families-file-lawsuit-over-wrongful-adoptions#ixzz2DdfCNsqx
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