Parents get brief visit with daughter
A mother said she hugged her 8-year-old daughter for the first time after a seven-year fight to get the child back from what was supposed to be temporary foster care.
“I hug her very close and hard,” Qin Luo He said after a court-ordered meeting in Memphis with daughter Anna Mae, now a second-grader.
Qin Luo and husband Shaoqiang He were reunited with Anna Mae under orders from the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Since she was 1 month old, the girl has lived with an American couple, Jerry and Louise Baker, who tried to adopt her over her parents’ objections.
The 90-minute visit with Anna Mae was a first step in reuniting the girl with her parents.
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