Word: morgane
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Rather than obey a judge's order to allow her daughter to visit her father, plastic surgeon Elizabeth Morgan sent the girl into hiding and spent more than two years in a Washington jail. Now Hilary Foretich, the seven-year-old girl at the center of one of the most bitter and highly publicized custody cases in memory, has been found in Christchurch, New Zealand...
...seen since August 1987, Hilary was bundled off with her maternal grandparents after Morgan lost her legal battle to prevent oral surgeon Eric Foretich from having unsupervised visits with the child. Morgan, who divorced Foretich shortly before Hilary was born, accused her former spouse of sexually abusing their daughter, then two, in 1985. Although several child-abuse experts testified that Hilary had been molested, other experts disagreed. Judge Herbert Dixon ruled that Morgan had not proved her case and ordered her to jail for refusing to divulge Hilary's location. Not until last September, when George Bush signed...
Foretich, who vehemently denied Morgan's allegations and countercharged that she was mentally ill, offered a $50,000 reward for information on Hilary's whereabouts. The child was traced to Christchurch after the BBC television show Kilroy aired a documentary about the case. Among those who watched the program was a teacher at Beechford College, a girls' prep school in Plymouth, England, who informed the show's producer, Di Burgess, that Hilary had been a student there. The school's headmistress, Pat Holdness, told the London Times that Hilary's grandparents enrolled her in 1987 under the name Ellen Morgan...
...Morgan, now married to federal appeals court Judge Paul Michel, is preparing for another test of wills with Judge Dixon. She is determined to go to New Zealand, where the courts might permit her accusations against Foretich to be aired in open court. But she cannot leave the U.S. unless Dixon gives his permission. It may be Foretich, not Morgan, who gets to see Hilary first...
...whom it helps, California's size and links to Hollywood will change the nature of the early primary season. No longer will the candidate being interrogated by an Iowa farmer hold the nation's attention. Stump speeches to Iowa heartlanders and New Hampshire yankees might be more charming, but Morgan Fairchild introducing a candidate at the Century Plaza will certainly be glitzier...