ACLU Press ReleaseThe county's Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) has held the girl in foster care since February 20, when a judge took her away after he learned that she was being raised by a lesbian.
"I haven't seen Emma for over two months, and it breaks my heart to know that she's not doing well in foster care right now," said Elizabeth Hadaway, a 28-year-old paramedic who first took in the little girl when the child's biological mother asked her to raise and adopt Emma. "Even DFCS's own child welfare expert agreed that she should never have been taken from her home and that she needs the kind of individual attention I was able to give her, but because of one judge's bias this little girl who's been through so much is living with strangers.
