5.Not long ago, someone else apparently tipped off the authorities. According to neighbor John Kelleher, 71, Ayala recently complained that someone told the ChildWelfare Administration she was beating the girls and putting out cigarettes on their bodies.
9.As far as we know, the sick child was found on February 20, 1995 on the street by someone from a local police station; the child was then sent to the welfare home. The child was seriously ill when admitted to the welfare home.
10.The idea of adoption was appealing, but we were somewhat put off①by the totality of the rupture between birth mother and child imposed by the state welfare department.
