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Octo-Mom pressured to accept offer for free housing
Updated Thu. Feb. 26 2009 10:15 AM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
California's octuplets mother has until midnight tonight to accept an offer from a group that wants to provide free housing and medical care to her and her 14 children.
The lawyer for Angels in Waiting, a non-profit group that was founded by medical professionals to care for premature infants with fragile health, said Nadya Suleman has few better options.
"They can provide for the health and safety and welfare of not only the octuplets but also the other six siblings of these octuplets. And they would be able to keep the family together, provide what they call wrap-around services, 24/7 care," Gloria Allred, a victim's rights attorney representing the agency, told CTV's Canada AM.
Two weeks ago the group offered to provide free housing, counselling and medical services to Suleman and her 14 kids, for a minimum of six months.
That offer expires at midnight Thursday. If Suleman doesn't accept, she risks having the children taken away from her, Allred said.
The L.A. lawyer has even filed a complaint with the Department of Children and Family Services in Los Angeles County, asking them to open an investigation into whether the divorced, unemployed 33-year-old would be able to adequately care for all the kids on her own.
Suleman lives in Whittier, Calif. in her mother's three-bedroom home, which is reportedly under threat of foreclosure due to missed mortgage payments.
The eight babies were born nine weeks premature, and have not yet been released from hospital.
If social workers determine there is a risk to the babies' health, they could block their release indefinitely, at which point local authorities would step in.
"The Los Angeles county department of child and family services may take the children and place them in foster homes and have public agencies come in and take care of them," Allred said.
"That would mean a burden to taxpayers and I don't think the public wants that burden and this could help to avoid that."
The group has not met with Suleman, but Allred said she is certain the offer has been delivered.
Allred said Angels in Waiting is the only group in California that offers such a service. She warned that if Suleman rejects the offer, she runs the risk of "long lasting and severe consequences and developmental delays" for the children.
"I think if she decides the needs of her babies are paramount and she wants to act for their protection and wellbeing, then this would be a hard offer for her to refuse."
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UUMMPPSS I heard it all this morning on the ToDay Show.. OCOMOM Maniac has a Web Site Now & is asking for Donations for her Hardship Family thats going thru hard times.. Well we are all going thru hard times.. I ran & shut the TV Off.. That Oxxyy Moron Worman..
Well it is so UnEarthing just to think that she had these babies just so She could have Attention & the Media Glotting over her.. It just makes me so so Sick = that I could just Puckkkkk.. I think they should take all the babies away from her.. I also think that the Egg Doctor should have charges filed against him as well for doing the job.. Its all in all just for money.. They are all Wormens & Wormans..
Originally Posted by Catty1
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