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A child is removed after its parents are accused of abuse. The child is adopted and settles with a new family. If the parents are then cleared, should the child be returned, ask ethicists Rebecca Roache and Barbro Bjorkman.
Mark and Nicky Webster have lost a bid to overturn adoption orders on three of their children.
The children were removed in 2005, following concerns over injuries incurred to one of the children.
Subsequent investigations revealed that the injuries may have resulted from a medical condition, and that the Websters may not have harmed the child after all.
However, with the children now settled with their adoptive families, senior appeal court judges have ruled that while the Websters may have suffered a miscarriage of justice, it is not in the children's interests to overturn the adoption orders.
Assuming that the Websters are indeed innocent of harming their child, has the court made the right decision?
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A child is removed after its parents are accused of abuse. The child is adopted and settles with a new family. If the parents are then cleared, should the child be returned, ask ethicists Rebecca Roache and Barbro Bjorkman.
Mark and Nicky Webster have lost a bid to overturn adoption orders on three of their children.
The children were removed in 2005, following concerns over injuries incurred to one of the children.
Subsequent investigations revealed that the injuries may have resulted from a medical condition, and that the Websters may not have harmed the child after all.
However, with the children now settled with their adoptive families, senior appeal court judges have ruled that while the Websters may have suffered a miscarriage of justice, it is not in the children's interests to overturn the adoption orders.
Assuming that the Websters are indeed innocent of harming their child, has the court made the right decision?
( Read more... )