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- <text id=94TT0857>
- <title>
- Jul. 04, 1994: Returned:Tyler Doustou
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jul. 04, 1994 When Violence Hits Home
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 17
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- <body>
- <p> RETURNED. TYLER DOUSTOU, 2, to his mother, Sharon Bottoms, 24;
- by a unanimous decision of the Virginia appeals court; in Richmond.
- Last September, Tyler was placed with his grandmother after
- a lower-court judge ruled that Bottoms' relationship with a
- female live-in lover made her an "unfit parent." The appeals
- court held that there was no evidence that Bottoms' homosexuality
- "has or will have a deleterious effect on her son." Hailed by
- gay-rights supporters, Bottoms still insists, "I'm not a hero.
- I'm just a mother trying to get her son back."
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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