More on the Anna Mae He case

"After custody battle, Chinese girl set to be united with birth parents"

It seems that the Bakers have taken their case to the media, releasing photos of 8-year-old Anna Mae and inviting ABC News and USA Today into their home to film video segments.

"After years of being 'very careful and very protective' in shielding Anna from the spotlight, they decided to open their home to USA TODAY and ABC News in hopes of drawing public attention to their case. 'We're obviously more desperate,' Jerry says."

"The Bakers are candid about their strategy to show Anna to the public now. 'We want people to rise up and say this is not right,' Jerry says. What difference could that possibly make at this point? Perhaps, he says, a court will rehear their case and let them keep the child. Losing her, he says, would be like suffering a death."

Uh, so it's OK to make the Hes feel that way?

The USA Today article has a sidebar on the left, "All Eyes on Anna Mae," which I find disturbing. If the Bakers only care for her best interest, then why are they exposing her like this and asking her to answer questions such as "What do you want your last name to be, Baker or He?"

That's just not right.

Updated (3/2/07):

Found this disturbing article ...

"Adoptive Parents Lose Eight-Year Custody Battle"

"'She doesn't understand that it's very likely that she will be put into a car and taken to strangers. She doesn't understand those things. All she knows is the family that she's known since she was 3 weeks old,' Baker said."

Uh, maybe that's because you wouldn't let her biological family visit her while this was all being worked out?!