"THE HOUR" REPORTS DCF ADMITS MISTAKES IN GONZALEZ CASE!

STAMFORD -- The state Department of Children and Families has admitted that it acted on a mistaken belief in taking a North Stamford mother's adopted son away from her, resulting in a two-year legal battle "riddled with errors and misjudgments," court documents show.


In its supplement to an appeals case filed on Sept. 12, the agency admits that "there was never a proper cause for Santiago G.'s removal from Maria G. and for his placement in state custody and subsequently never an opportunity granted for Santiago G. and Maria (Gonzalez) to begin to reunify."


"First, the only sustainable basis to warrant initial state intrusion into the lives of Santiago G. and Maria G. is now well-established to have been a mistake -- specifically the concern that Maria G. had engaged in human trafficking -- has been demonstratively disproven," the appeals supplement reads.


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