Adoption lawyer faces lawsuit from unhappy couple
A New York couple are suing the lawyers they hired to help them adopt a baby boy, on the grounds that the child is defective. Lynell and Victor Jeffrey say that if they’d known baby Ellington had serious neurological problems, they would not have adopted him, and now they want $5 million for medical costs and emotional distress. “Ellington is a wonderful little boy,” said Mrs. Jeffrey, “but this has been hard.”
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