Newborn's 'rescuer' is baby's mother, sheriff says
Pokriots' mother and the baby's grandmother, Janet Pokriots, defended her daughter Friday, saying she was a good mother who got scared. The grandmother said Pokriots was not prepared to give birth or care for the child. [Patricia Pokriots] has another son who is 10 years old. Gina Ciolino,...
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| Published in | Knight Ridder Tribune News Service p. 1 |
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Washington
Tribune Content Agency LLC
11.02.2005
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| Summary: | Pokriots' mother and the baby's grandmother, Janet Pokriots, defended her daughter Friday, saying she was a good mother who got scared. The grandmother said Pokriots was not prepared to give birth or care for the child. [Patricia Pokriots] has another son who is 10 years old. Gina Ciolino, spokeswoman for ChildNet, a local child welfare agency, said her agency has been flooded by calls from people wanting to adopt [Johny Tryzmel] -- but that he is not yet available for adoption and may never be. ChildNet took both the baby and Pokriots' other son into custody Friday. Pokriots told authorities she does not wish to raise Johny. "The next step is to terminate mom's parental rights and to find out who the dad is," Ciolino said. "We're looking for a foster home for him. An investigation will commence to see if (the grandmother) is interested." Scott Hargreaves, father of Pokriots' eldest son, was visibly shocked by both the news of Pokriots' pregnancy and the lie she eventually spun. He said she has no history of mental illness and, though the two of them haven't been together for two years, he sees her each weekend when he visits his son. He said he considers her a "good mother" and when he saw her two weeks ago, she showed no signs of being pregnant, although she generally wore baggy clothes. |
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