Fern5827
August 23rd 04, 07:59 PM
It is not clear from this article whether child was adopted thru a CPS agency.
Subject: Couple sues over adopted child's illness
From: (LilMtnCbn)
Date: 8/23/2004 9:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040822-054840-6429r.htm
Couple sues over adopted child's illness
East Bay, CA, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- An East Bay, Calif., couple has filed suit
against Alameda County and several medical providers after learning their
adopted child was infected with HIV.
It was only after her adoption was completed -- a year and a half after they
began caring for her -- that the couple learned the child they loved was
infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the San Jose Mercury News
reported.
The San Jose Mercury News said if the county really failed to test for HIV,
then it violated protocol that calls for HIV testing when certain risk factors
are present. The known drug use of the child's birth mother qualifies as one
such factor.
However, even if the county tested the child for HIV, it failed to follow its
policy that states caregivers must be told when a child is infected with HIV or
at risk for the virus.
What is clear is that Baby J, as she is called in court documents, spent the
first three years of her life without receiving treatment, which pediatricians
say can be critical to the long-term health of an HIV-infected child.
Additionally, her adopted family was unwittingly exposed to the virus.
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A good friend will come and bail you out of jail . . . but, a true friend will
be sitting next to you saying, "Damn . . . that was fun!"
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Subject: Couple sues over adopted child's illness
From: (LilMtnCbn)
Date: 8/23/2004 9:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: >
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040822-054840-6429r.htm
Couple sues over adopted child's illness
East Bay, CA, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- An East Bay, Calif., couple has filed suit
against Alameda County and several medical providers after learning their
adopted child was infected with HIV.
It was only after her adoption was completed -- a year and a half after they
began caring for her -- that the couple learned the child they loved was
infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the San Jose Mercury News
reported.
The San Jose Mercury News said if the county really failed to test for HIV,
then it violated protocol that calls for HIV testing when certain risk factors
are present. The known drug use of the child's birth mother qualifies as one
such factor.
However, even if the county tested the child for HIV, it failed to follow its
policy that states caregivers must be told when a child is infected with HIV or
at risk for the virus.
What is clear is that Baby J, as she is called in court documents, spent the
first three years of her life without receiving treatment, which pediatricians
say can be critical to the long-term health of an HIV-infected child.
Additionally, her adopted family was unwittingly exposed to the virus.
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A good friend will come and bail you out of jail . . . but, a true friend will
be sitting next to you saying, "Damn . . . that was fun!"
-----Unknown