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...baby girl named Chloe was born prematurely, and when routine tests showed that she had been exposed to cocaine, a staff member at Rochester Methodist Hospital in Olmsted County, Minn., contacted local child-protection officials. In the past, Chloe would simply have been moved into the foster-care system, and her mother Oksana, 34, who immigrated to the U.S. from Belarus nine years ago, would have had a tough time getting her out. But Minnesota is taking a new approach toward parents who are deemed to be a threat to their children. Social workers met with Oksana, who has asked...
...year-old adopted son; investigators say she routinely beat her kids with a plastic pipe. In most states, social workers called in to deal with abusive situations face the choice of leaving a child in a potentially dangerous home or placing him or her in a sometimes equally alienating foster-care system. But Minnesota officials believe most families can be kept together and the children kept safe if dysfunctional parents are given proper help...
...laws agreed to take Chloe but only temporarily. None of Scott's family members were up to keeping her permanently, since many of them had either already raised or were raising youngsters of their own. So Oksana ran the risk of losing her daughter permanently to the state's foster-care system, if she was unable to stay clean for a long period of time...
...birth, Oksana met with members of Scott's family. She owned up to her past drug use, insisted that she had quit cold turkey and asked for their support. For their part, Oksana and Scott began to establish a caring relationship with their daughter while she lived in a foster home. Oksana visited Chloe regularly, starting with a few hours at her social worker's office and gradually increasing the time until Chloe was spending two nights a week with her parents. "We spent a lot of time cuddling," says Oksana. In February Oksana and Scott regained custody of Chloe...
...California for $1,750,000, arguing that Bettie should not have been released from Patton and that a prospective landlord should have been alerted to her history of violence. The state settled for $70,000, which, after lawyers' fees, brought Haddad about $40,000 - hardly enough, she told Foster, to cover her medical expenses. When he interviewed her in 1994, she still had no feeling in two of her fingers. Bettie, while in confinement, got word to Haddad that she hoped to meet again some day and express her remorse. Haddad said no thanks...