[Home-on-the-range] Help us to bring Mikaela home

[Floyd]

This is not just a blindness issue but another case of Child Protective Services taking a child from a parent just be cause they can. The NFB should not only get behind this family but we should also take legal action against the hospital where this accrued. This is not a Blind verses Sighted miss understanding, but a case of We the People verses Child Protective Services. This agency deals with Sighted, Death, Physically disabled, Mentally disabled, and Blind the same way. I personaly do not know any sighted person who would agrea with the action taken by Child Protective Services.
 
Thank You 
Floyd








Erica and Blake, a young couple awaiting the birth of their first child with joy and happiness. Baby Mikaela  was born at 12:45pm, May 21. Not unlike many new mothers Erica experienced some difficulty in her first breast feeding of Mikaela, she called the nurse for some advise. By 6:00pm child protective services arrived at the hospital to say the parents could not take Mikaela  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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