How did a story about a kidnapping evolve into a raging debate about state-sponsored sterilization in the Philadelphia media?
It
started when two-month-old Shaniyah Grantby disappeared last Saturday.
Her mother, Tiesha Pitts, 26, had let another woman take Shaniyah to
the store, and that woman - later identified as Clarissa Hanton, 23 -
never brought her back.
When Shaniyah was found Monday, it
seemed like a happy ending. Until it came out that Tiesha entrusted
her child to someone whose full name and address she didn't even know.
And that she waited more than 24 hours to report the baby missing.
So
the Department of Human Services placed Shaniyah in foster care
temporarily while they investigate the family. But maybe DHS already
knows enough: Shaniyah is Tiesha's seventh kid, and it turns out the
other six are all in foster care.
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