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IL Couple Agreed To Return Child If Adoption Failed

Court records say the couple who were ordered to give up the three-year-old boy
they had raised from birth to his biological mother in Illinois previously
agreed to return the boy if their adoption case failed.

The records say the mother, Amanda Hopkins, agreed to allow Dawn and Gene Scott
to adopt the boy if they would allow her frequent contact with him and agree to
return him to her should their adoption case fail.

The Scotts, who live in Florida, had been friends with Hopkins' mother.

The Florida Times-Union reported that a judge unsealed some records in the case
Thursday in an apparent attempt to diffuse criticism of the ruling.

A judge dismissed the Scotts' adoption case in 2002, ruling that the boy's
biological father neither abandoned his son nor agreed to his adoption. The
Scotts appealed unsuccessfully.



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