Justice for Justyce: A baby left without a name, finally, gets one
When we think of joyful endings, we don’t usually think about offices where paperwork is exchanged. But when Yolanda Allen-Little walked out of the D.C. Vital Records Division on Friday, she would have done a cartwheel if she knew how and, she noted, if she were younger.That day, the retired civil service employee finally got what she had been waiting more than four frustrating months to receive: a birth certificate for a baby who ended up in her care after the child’s mother left her at a D.C.
“We were sort of in a holding pattern, where we didn’t know what else to do,” Marla Spindel, the attorney who has been helping the family, said. “Our last resort was to go public. We felt like we had already done everything else we could do.”, a nonprofit organization that serves relatives and family friends who take on caregiver roles for children who can’t remain with their parents. She got involved with the family after a judge recommended that Yolanda contact the organization.
Court records show Yolanda went to court to get temporary custody, then permanent custody and visited Vital Records several times. Other people, Spindel said, “would have given up way before Yolanda. They would never have gone all those extra steps.”When Spindel and Yolanda spoke to me about what they were going through, they hoped that sharing their experience would compel city and court officials to help them. What ended up happening was more than either of them expected.
But that was five months ago. Recent weeks, Yolanda said, have shown her that Justyce is far from alone.
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