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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Social workers SEIZE sobbing girl, 6, from her home of five years in adoption race row: Devastated white foster family forced to give up their daughter by court because she is 1.5% Native American


  • Lexi, a six-year-old with one-and-a-half per cent Choctaw blood has been removed from her foster parents of five years 
  • Protesters tried to stop government officials from taking the child from her foster parents by spending the night outside the home
  • Summer and Rusty Page, Lexi's foster parents, are not Native American
  • Due to the 'Indian Child Welfare Act', Lexi is supposed to only live with other Native American families
  • Summer and Rusty, from Santa Claritra, California, have been fighting for two years to adopt the child  
  • The Choctaw Tribe has decided to place Lexi with a person in Utah who is not Native American and does not live on a reservation


  • Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3503460/Girl-six-taken-away-foster-family-five-years-1-5-cent-Native-American-family-white.html#ixzz43eAifyZE






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