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ISRAEL: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a young boy born to an Ethiopian-immigrant mother should remain with his non-Ethiopian foster parents rather than be returned to his biological family, overturning its own previous ruling in August. The ruling enables the foster parents to complete the adoption process.
The vote on the expanded panel of seven justices was 5-2.
The mother of the boy, who is nearly three, suffers from a mental illness and the fathers identity is unknown.
The boy has been with the foster family since February 2012. In April 2013 a family court cleared him for adoption and the foster parents were told that adoption request would be approved. But a maternal aunt of the child said she and her husband wanted to adopt the boy, triggering a legal battle.
The aunt argued that her biological tie to the child should take precedence over his ties to the foster parents.
Adoptive family wins custody of Ethiopian child - National Israel News | Haaretz
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The right decision was made.
The vote on the expanded panel of seven justices was 5-2.
The mother of the boy, who is nearly three, suffers from a mental illness and the fathers identity is unknown.
The boy has been with the foster family since February 2012. In April 2013 a family court cleared him for adoption and the foster parents were told that adoption request would be approved. But a maternal aunt of the child said she and her husband wanted to adopt the boy, triggering a legal battle.
The aunt argued that her biological tie to the child should take precedence over his ties to the foster parents.
Adoptive family wins custody of Ethiopian child - National Israel News | Haaretz
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The right decision was made.