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More than 100 members of the Ethiopian community demonstrated outside the Supreme Court and clashed with Border Guard forces on Tuesday during a hearing on the adoption of an Ethiopian child.
The child was taken from his mother's custody shortly after his birth, as she was found to be unfit to raise him. The mother was diagnozed with schizophrenia.
The child's aunt has been waging a legal battle to adopt him ever since. At the age of one, the child was placed in foster care. The foster family took him in with the intention of adopting him.
They have been engaged in a legal custody battle with the child's aunt for the past two years, during which the Social Affairs Ministry argued that it would be in the child's best interest to stay with his foster family. The government claimed that the aunt has only met the boy twice, before the age of nine months and is effectively a stranger to him.
A district court ruled that the child remain with his foster family, a decision which was later overturned. The Supreme Court is now discussing the foster family's appeal.
Ethiopians protest outside Supreme Court over adoption case - Israel News, Ynetnews
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Our prayers with the little boy!![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
The child was taken from his mother's custody shortly after his birth, as she was found to be unfit to raise him. The mother was diagnozed with schizophrenia.
The child's aunt has been waging a legal battle to adopt him ever since. At the age of one, the child was placed in foster care. The foster family took him in with the intention of adopting him.
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They have been engaged in a legal custody battle with the child's aunt for the past two years, during which the Social Affairs Ministry argued that it would be in the child's best interest to stay with his foster family. The government claimed that the aunt has only met the boy twice, before the age of nine months and is effectively a stranger to him.
A district court ruled that the child remain with his foster family, a decision which was later overturned. The Supreme Court is now discussing the foster family's appeal.
Ethiopians protest outside Supreme Court over adoption case - Israel News, Ynetnews
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Our prayers with the little boy!