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Thursday.March 10.1994
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Kimberly Mays moved in with biological family
The Associated Press
SEBRING, Fla. — Kimberly Mays, the girl who was switched at birth, moved in with her biological parents, the same couple she once persuaded a court to ban from her life.
She tearfully pleaded with a judge last year to allow her to stay with the only man she has known as her father, Robert Mays. The judge severed ties with her biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg.
But Tuesday, Kimberly left a Sarasota YMCA youth shelter for troubled teens and went with the Twiggs to their Sering home, The Tampa Tribune reported. She had gone to the shelter last week for help with what her lawyer called typical adolescent problems.
"I know we're all disappointed," Mays' father, Robert Mays Sr., told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I don't know for sure what's going on, and that's why I can't say too much."
Earlier, his wife, Ruth, told WWNZ of Orlando that Kimberly was moving in with the Twiggs with the permission of the younger Mays. Robert Sr. said he was reluctant to discuss such details because he didn't know what was going to happen next.
Kimberly, 15, is expected to enroll at Sebring High School, the newspaper quoted sources close to the Twiggs as saying. Amy Church, assistant principal at Sebring High, said Tuesday that school officials had no knowledge of any such plans.
The baby switch came to light in 1988 when blood tests on the girl the Twiggs had raised as their own, Arlena, showed that she wasn't their daughter. After Arlena died, the Twiggs tracked down Kimberly and determined that she was their biological daughter. They spent the next five years battling for custody and visitation rights.
George Russ, the attorney who represented Kimberly, would not confirm whether Kimberly was with the Twiggs on Tuesday night.
"Right now it's in Kimberly's best interest to have her privacy," he told the Tribune. "The thing she needs most in the world is to be left alone."
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The youth shelter refused to release any information early yesterday, and messages left with Russ; the Mayes' attorney, Art Ginsburg, and the Twiggs' attorney, John Blakely, yesterday morning were not returned.
In his ruling last August, Dakan affirmed that Robert Mays was Kimberly's legal father and said the Twiggs had no right to visit her.
West Bank sees no holiday from violence
The Associated Press
HEIBRON, Occupied West Bank — Between snips, the barber took a furious glance at yet another army patrol wandering by yesterday, hoping that they would not order him closed on the 13th day of curfew since the mourne message.
It is supposed to be one of the most joyous weeks of the year, culminating in the end of Ramadan holiday when everyone gets new clothes, new haircuts and special food.
Not this year. Hebron residents are cooped up indoors, mourning and angry.
"If you had been here 30 minutes ago, you could have gotten a whiff of the tear gas being shot by the soldiers," said Abu Abu Snelm. Only five customers risked the wrath of soldiers and settlers to reach his shop.
During the holiday last year, the 27-year-old barber was working 15
hours a day to keep up with demand. This year only one of the six iron shutters across the storefront is open, the signal that someone is inside.
"Hell is better than this life," said a cousin, Khallu Abu Sneineh, 50, who sat outside the barber shop. His brother Abdul-Rahim was among 30 Palestinian killed when a New York-born Jewish settler opened fire in a mosque Feb. 25.
The 80,000 Palestinians in Hebron are especially incensed that the 450 Jewish settlers living among them are allowed to circulate freely, weapons in hand. Many of them curse the Palestine Liberation Organization for exploring ways to continue the peace talks almost as much as they curse Israel.
"The settlers always point their guns at us. They tell us that they will do to us what already happened in the mosque," said Zeinah Abu Isaafian, whose house sits about 10 yards from the Jewish settlement of
Kiryat Arba adjacent to Hebron. Baruch Goldstein, the man who opened fire, lived there.
Oded Ben Ami, representative for Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on security matters, said the curfew in Hebron was indefinite. Elsewhere in the occupied territories the last four curfews were lifted Tuesday. "We are trying to minimize the friction between Jews and Arabs in order to protect them both from protests and riots and the tragic results of such events," Ben Ami said.
The residents defy the curfew when the occasion is important enough. One such occasion was a wake for the two men killed Monday, shot after they threw rocks at an army jeep.
Samer Dwalk, 23, sat crying as 100 friends and relatives snuck in from around town to pay condolences for his younger brother's death.
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