Dying mother battling to stop US couple from adopting son

A terminally-ill woman, whose six-year-old son has been in State care all his life, is fighting to prevent his adoption by an American couple because she wants to be reunited with him.

The woman, who is a security guard, said she had requested that her aunt be allowed to adopt the child so that she could be close to him. She said she had made this known to the Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA).

She told this publication on Thursday that she was only made aware that the couple would be adopting her son on February 10,