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Father
Fights Adoption Agency for
Right to Raise His Son "Mark Huddleston is the biological father of a 16-month-old
child he says he wants to raise. But a judge has ruled the child
should remain with its adoptive parents, who have had custody
since the infant was three days old. Huddleston claims he didn't
know the baby existed until two months after its birth...the
state said the private adoption agency hadn't properly notified
Huddleston and that he should have an opportunity to raise the
child.
"'This child is my blood,' said Huddleston, a father of two
grown children. 'I couldn't live with myself knowing there's
a child of mine I have no relationship with. They don't understand
that.'" (Valencia County News Bulletin, 6/15/05)
Despite doing everything possible to be a father to his son,
Huddleston's baby boy was given away by a vindictive mother
working hand in glove with a predatory adoption agency. Sixteen
months and $70,000 in legal fees later, Huddleston has no rights
to his own son.
Huddleston, his attorney P.J. Hartman,
and Mike McCormick, Executive Director of the
American Coalition for Fathers
and Children, joined Glenn on
His Side with Glenn Sacks
on July 17, 2005.
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