Maybe caring for their niece, Saira thought, would restore some small bit of order not only to the baby’s life, but also to their own. We are a good family,” Saira had tried to impress upon one CPS representative after the next, and each of her niece’s visits was an opportunity to prove it. When she asked Saira, who at the time was nursing her own daughter, to occasionally also breast-feed her niece, Saira agreed and regarded it as an honor. “We are a good family,” Saira said, as she pulled onto the freeway. “We’ll say that they were her parents and they did something terrible.”“Yes, and that she was just a baby,” Saira said.

Source: Washington Post November 28, 2016 01:43 UTC