LOS ANGELES – A judge has heard a week of testimony and will now decide whether a woman so badly brain damaged by medical errors that she can no longer walk, talk or eat still has the right to parental visits with her children.
Superior Court Judge Frederick C. Shaller said he plans to issue a tentative written order sometime Friday deciding whether Abbie Dorn can visit regularly with her 4-year-old triplets.
Dorn’s parents, who care for her at their Myrtle Beach, S.C., home, want the children to visit for two weeks every summer and a week in the fall and spring.
An attorney for Dorn’s ex-husband, Dan Dorn, argued Thursday that the 34-year-old woman was so badly injured giving birth to her children that she is no longer capable of being a parent.
“It’s unfortunate but it’s the truth, and we have to deal with what we know,” said attorney Vicki Greene.