Court rules foster parents can adopt abused child instead of grandmother

Judge Thomas J. Munley placed too much emphasis on the biological tie between the maternal grandmother and the girl, who at 3 months old was blinded after someone put a cleaning product in her eyes, the court said. It overturned his ruling that ordered the child be returned to the grandmother and directed the now 4-year-old girl remain with the foster parents who cared for her since she was 6 months old. Neither the foster parents nor biological mother or grandmother are identified by name in the ruling.

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