The child's Navajo grandparents are seeking custody. But the Alamosa County Department of Social Services instead proposed to keep the baby in a non-Navajo foster home and to grant visitation rights to the grandparents.
Judge Pattie Swift did not rule on the visitation plan. She said she wants to hear from the grandparents, who were not present in court. Last month, Swift refused to transfer the case under the Indian Child Welfare Act to the Navajo Nation. She said it was too late in the proceedings toe tribal court. The child has been in foster care for a little over a year. Get the Story:Hearing held in Navajo baby case (The Alamosa Valley Courier 11/9) Related Stories:
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