MICROWAVE BABY

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THE CASE OF THE GIRL & THE MICROWAVE BABY

A Story of "Anchoring Bias" by Robin Plank

“I have a file here with your name on it,” said Lillian Elliott, the district guardian ad litem case coordinator.”

“The court has determined she’s a CINS kid herself, a child in need of services...because she put her baby sister in a microwave oven.”

Thus begins the story of Gay Courter, a volunteer guardian ad litem (GAL) from Florida. In her book, I Speak for This Child, True Stories of a Child Advocate, Gay records the difficulties of children who are in the dependency court system.  (To read the full story, click on the padlock icon, scroll down & then click on the  pdf file.)