recorded as deceased.
Another had entered emergency protective care with incomplete identifying information.
Ellie’s earliest welfare record carried the identification number originally assigned to Lucy.
My hand tightened around the phone.
“So someone confused the babies?”
“That appears to be one part of what happened,” the attorney explained. “But it doesn’t account for every failure in the records.”
I swallowed.
“Then how did they declare my daughter dead?”
“That question is still being investigated.”
“Who verified her identity?”
“We’re requesting those details.”
I sat down.
The possibility of an administrative
