Reply #109: Thanks Mika. It is becoming clearer now.

[Billy Burnett]

Thanks for posting that Jim DeFede audio link. I find it interesting that with all of the reporting done on this case that news articles never mention the not so small detail of the Cubas family being the second custodial family.

Of interest is that the first custodial family were friends of the Cubas' family and that's how Joe Cubas came into contact with this case. The Cubas family hadn't applied to be a custodial family for the DCF until they decided that they wanted these particular children. Only after they met these kids had they applied for and been approved as a custodial family by the DCF.

I think that you do ask an important question regarding the transfer of these kids from the original custodial family and disrupting the children's stability, which is one of the main claimed concerns by the DCF, to such a high profile political person as Joe Cubas.



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