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Anna Mae He - five months into her new life with her new (old) family
Posted By katie allison granju
The Anna Mae He case is one of the sadder and stranger sagas in Tennessee legal history. But it’s over now, and the little girl has been living with her birth parents - her parents - for the past five months. The Memphis Commercial Appeal was granted fairly intimate access to the He family home to report on how Anna is doing after this unspeakably difficult transition:
But Casey (Anna’s mother) isn’t going to win Anna through the child’s mind. She’s holding out for her heart.
One day Anna will know that when the court said the Hes couldn’t contact Anna, Casey stood across the street from the Bakers’ home day after day. Alone. Crying. Picketing. She held a sign written by a friend who knew English: “Mr. Baker give me back my daughter.”
“She will learn her mother’s heart and that a mother’s love is strong,” Casey said. “She knows I didn’t give her away.”
Dec 26th, 2007
Regret is a terrible thing when acted upon, and when a child bonds so deeply to another mother. Anna should have never been put into and left in voluntary foster care for so long.