[blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring Mikaela home

[Veronica Smith]

I will ask for another place to make donations. v

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 9:01 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring Mikaela
home

This just puts me in tears.  Is it really going to cost all that much?  What

about the ACLU?  Is there any place to make a donation by credit card for 
people who will not be attending the convention?  I can't believe she isn't 
home yet!

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From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 8:43 PM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring Mikaela home

> Here is an update, we all have been waiting to hear. Veronica
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Debbie Wunder
> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 8:27 PM
> To: Chapter Presidents
> Subject: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring Mikaela home
>
> Sugar & Spice
>
>
>
> And Everything Nice
>
> That is what little Girls Are Made Of
>
>
>
> Erica and Blake, a young couple awaiting the birth of their first child 
> with
> joy and happiness. BabyMikaela  was born at 12:45pm, May 21. Not unlike 
> many
> new mothers Erica experienced some difficulty in her first breast feeding
> ofMikaela, she called the nurse for some advise. By 6:00pm child 
> protective
> services arrived at the hospital to say the parents could not takeMikaela
> home, unless they had a sighted person to live with them.
>
> In all the investigations, blindness is the only reason sited for the
> parents not being allowed to leave with their new baby girl.
>
>
>
> The Missouri affiliate has hired an attorney at $250 per hour, and her
> assistant at $85 per hour to bring Mikaela home where she belongs!
>
>
>
> Please help with any donations possible to unite this family. You may stop
> by the Missouri table, B 114 in the exhibit hall, or come by our 
> delegation.
>
>
> We, the National Federation of the Blind can bring Mikaela home to her
> parents where she belongs! Thank you for any help you can give.
>
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