The State - News from Jan. 18, 1988

The attorney representing a 20-year-old wheelchair-bound mother with cerebral palsy who had to surrender her second child to welfare authorities said he will seek the return of both children to their mother. Tiffany Callo gave birth to a healthy baby boy in San Jose but immediately lost custody because officials said there was no welfare program providing round-the-clock child care for someone like Callo, who is on welfare and needs 24-hour care herself. She also lost custody to Santa Clara County of her first child, also a boy, 10 months ago. She is separated from her husband, who is disabled by rheumatoid arthritis and also confined to a wheelchair. But Clay Bedford, who represents Callo, said he will seek county financing of care for both mother and children together, perhaps through a foster home for all three, or at least gain Callo visitation rights several times a week wherever the babies are placed.