Articles Book III - Pg 300-560 (Birthparents) - triadoption

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something to go by," s)lle ?aid In a recent Divorced three limes, LeForl uya he WM is permitted access Lo such mnl. '',
Sufl Wrllcr Inlprview. told by a DCYS caseworker in lPlO lhat - . "Your parmu' rlghu in your bahl( nm . ,
CPlifonJo more than a decade ago ta mlalm '{usel over the years to pmvids .Inlomasion kid$ as long as I was dlvorclrd!' atlaplnl perwn,".lhe caun olflclal uid. " ... :::
Wh& )ViUiem kFort rsturned fmm )'LeFort ray. he believes that DCYS'r re, "there wa, no way I could lake care ol bdlh never' knni~(ed, Ulsrdow YOU 49 Dpl v;::,.j
f cuatody 0l hls dauphler, hc promiued Lo re- thal could lead them to Darreil -or give the H~ he married his fourth and pr-t Th.1 rul4 -I, In eht. DqUhu :
lulik bar wlbher bmlher,.Darrell, as well. buy lnlormnllon that could lead him ta 'hem . wife in 1871, a year before Damll w u aCce@ InlomU~ about DdJ& bu b.
. HB bs bren unable to kwp that promise, - is a "coverup." adopted. awn"I cannot ~uat can't obmtn underrUnd informntlon why. -1 Dam11 bLn la .:
and bo b w tbe state, whlch he asys kept "1 "Ink there should be an inveati~atiOn*". DCYS, however, denies LFart'a marltat jPllowed to
Darrall Inrm hlm when ha returned Lo Con- IaF0* "If decide lo .(live a. ~retus worked againrt blm. "We have Iota of
her, bur rhe im,L pnr)iw lo ,: I
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wctlcu~ kcuuva llcr war divorced. daughkr hack Lo a single man, then why not. who wem ,hgls,m M,.,; finfl~arr~il," krFort
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i A apqlre#woman for the alate ~cparttnent '
Drlvcoll sald.
Today, Deniae my8 ahr la dllraun(ydd '.ri
DCYSwunte* that 11 13 [&Fort who 1s not h d f.eFon0s alie;alion &at DCYS naver
about' mibr lcatlng Dnmll, bvlny q. .$;
of Cldldr~ and Youth &NICCI calls LeFort'~' ,,,lline llle whole
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clargm upwarranled.
"You have to
attempled Lo inlurm him about Damll'r her The two LeFo~ h.v. utwi for
Out part of aPDpUon hearins In 1812 is unfounded, Mrs. :aII;8m, ,fmm a .
LFort8 20 and a SuJf'eld res'- saying," Rosemary DrlscoU, the agency's ~ ~ a,,ya. she ~ ~ D Y recora
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and bmrher* a year younycr* were spakeswomw, said in e recent lnlerview. "I agency,s ~ l ~ 01 b i ~ aurt ~ .tap olficblr, Including DCYB Comqlulomr .:;
; lepara& lBW, Iier by thlnk he's laklng some cheap shots thal are s\s&redlrttera~ ~Forltnbo&Connecticut Mark J. Mnrnu and Gav. WlUm O'tJwl ':
:. than from teForL, left 'he chlldru, wtp a . mmpletcly unwurrurltd.-
Calilomla, but h~orl amrally m ~
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I: babynitwr ana never returned. To withe she said. "1 du't i d wslm prtt~n(l my*lqm,":.,.
Denlre and Dmrrell Mame ward# of fie
guilty of olten, "withoul eyer leaving a forwardlnp Drnisa says.
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abandoning his family when he moved to ,,address,"
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i state. ~enlae WM placd In a Cllnbn foster Caiifornla after his dlvorce lrom Denim's k~~~ wntenb he was IlvIng In Connec- A skpron,
LcFort hea had other dlftlcultl~~ mencly
: hunle# bUL there* ahu sayr. When molher. And 'haugh LeF0i-t returned Lo
Con- ticut at the time of Damell's ndoption hear- cently
Clouuer, dlupw & .
tellinp f,,snd be irrtrndbdLo u,, ,;
' . krFort returned to the amte In IW, Denise necllcut ta reclniln his children, he had'
hg, and DCYS could hve lracked hlm
was placed in hls care. "10 earn the ri@l gain than hack*" Mn. 11 it renlly wanted ~o."~f I owed child hlmelf over a breakup wllh a gIrllrland. ;
Whlls the alate Department of Children Drlucoll $&id.
LFort hnr beaD Iold Ihpt
s"ppn Or ullmony, they P has t,een ~n the area,
, and Youth Servicev allowed bFon, who Denbe was given back to her falher ........ yowq w,* .....
: live; in Windsor Locb, and kise to have because "they had qulk a bond betwen
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HIS lint official notiflcoilun 01 Dnmll'a ."!"
: three brief vislki wlth Darrell pt his foalrr them. We let her KO back On a trial basis a d adoption briny cnms fmrn DCYS, lhrp
bFon rays bo ir deteiminnd b
, Denise irad Dsmll ' m u
borne in 1970, it hpd the buy allupled lornully -when we Yaw it work&-- we iet?rrsU~," ye,, later, be said.
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1 In LUIZ. . Mrs. Drircuil auld. "On Peb. 22, lY72 your parental rlgblr lor tirat
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' LeFort charyes the uule dlJ not obtain his ' But with Dorrell. "there was no rela- Darrell wcre ~nnl~~s~cd.'l the leller aaya in.
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perm&i!~n to put R~rrdl up &r &duplion. tion~bip, no COnWcl with hi9 father. 1 don't part. :'We have had cunlacl wiUl Darrell . .
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The aWLa dcnicy lhut cliargq,.. ..... thmk ttuw 'hello, how-are-YOU' type vlaiu he lust year and lourul hlm Lo be well
In any &p ef,ec),d,,be ha constilure a rclirtiorrst~ip." ahr uddrJ.
me decision u, put Darrel1 UP for an3 ~UPI~Y." Anti-nub ?emonrtr~t~g~. ._.. ' .
bats ?a fr,atrn(n the l.uliom' huwu 01 find. ndoptlon LeFort ta Darr6u . .. . .
- a move Ullrl eivwl
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Inr Durr"* ;a'' .uwh 'hqL has hcO1ne m- ~~wwn~t-ik~~g&%i%kE wound down alter he rwelved the notiflca- planned at EB shiflyqrg .,
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sornetbfng of an obaraalon in recent yeura. ,"I lul Year, wtlen &,,he Lila her . . . . . . .
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. .: Deqiua wked lor cuurt parmission laat Dri~cuii *'Our cOrnmllmenW ptillon in Hnrtlurd Superior Court dCmWd- GI~OTON (AP)-- Anll-nudear waoVO8U'
year ldpcrure DeYS recurd$ dlat tnay have ~omet"tUl mde wlli~n~ll~. we're lhe , 'ing access w DLII ln~omtlun about her . actlv,a~ uerernnaUngplnn~ Frl*@y for P May
enpMe4 her lo truck her broU1er down, but hwine*~ of prolecling children," she wid.' .; brulher.
! . . . . Day dernonatralion on Sunday at Electrlc
a hqr rtquest was rejected. But LcFort,auys DCYS didn't rrtum Doc- She wes turned down bucnlt~e, a wUT( Bunt DIvIsIon shipyard In Groton. wbqrr trl.
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"!All 1 wanrrmlws.Jun~ a liltlp,lnf~~rpirtion reil In hla care bacu(ru#,4 bliC,prik?) sWW, .,pffi,$~ql r#W, 01liY ~ \ ? ! , ~ ~ ~ R Yc@lnw~~~~l~U94~bmhr:&~~
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