'We don't leave anyone behind': Family finally home after 6 year federal adoption battle
15-04-2025 04:08 via wane.com

'We don't leave anyone behind': Family finally home after 6 year federal adoption battle

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -- "She slayed giants."
That was what Ted Blanford had to say about his wife Laura, after a six-year-long process to get their children Cyrus and sister Anointed home after adopting them from Liberia.Laura and Ted Blanford were granted custody by a Liberian court of then 8-year-old Cyrus and his sister Anointed, who was then 5, on Jan. 29, 2019. Monday, they were finally able to bring their kids into the United States after a years-long battle with United States Citizensh
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