07.19.07
Anna Mae He’s foster parents give up custody fight
Jerry and Louise Baker of Tennessee have given up their seven-year legal fight to retain custody of Anna Mae He, the 8-year-old girl whose Chinese parents, Shaoqiang and Qin Lou He, put Anna Mae in their temporary foster care as an infant.
A lot of legal wrangling preceded the Bakers’ decision, but in the end the state Supreme Court wouldn’t budge on its findings: The Hes, under financial strain, put Anna Mae in foster care so she could get the medical care they couldn’t afford, then lost custody because they didn’t understand American law.
Shaoqiang He was a grad student at the Univ. of Memphis at the time, and had lost his scholarship and student stipend.
In a statement announcing the Bakers’ decision, the Bakers’ lawyer wrote that giving Anna Mae over to the Hes would devastate her, but that “further delaying the execution of what she must now suffer cannot be expected to help.”
Rob said,
July 20, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Finally.
It’s sad that the damage is already done and I honestly believe the Bakers should be charged with kidnapping.
Catherine said,
August 5, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Give me a bloody break.
This article is claiming that at this child’s natural father - a graduate student at an American University was too stupid to understand American Law.
If the gentleman was indeed so intellectually challenged - why was he even allowed in the country to study at any American school?
This is nothing more than one more case of a politically incorrect act at the expense of a child.
My heart goes out to both the child and her adoptive parents.