UPDATE / Haylee Donathan to be placed in foster care

Sounds like a plan. Grandma doesn't have much of a track record.

Haylee Donathan to be placed in foster care

Haylee Donathan, the missing 4-year-old who was discovered at a San Diego,
Calif. Christian ranch on June 23, will be placed in foster care when she
returns to Ohio.

After Haylee disappeared with her mother, Candace Watson, 24, and convicted
sex offender Robbi Potter, 27, on May 28, a nationwide manhunt ensued.
Potter was convicted and served time for two counts of sexual battery on
children, ages 7 and 9.

Haylee has been at the Polinsky Children's Center in San Diego since she was
found. The center is a 24-hour facility for the temporary emergency housing
of children who must be separated from their families if their parents
cannot care for them or for their own safety.

Mary Watson, Haylee's grandmother, was given temporary emergency custody of
the girl on June 19 to facilitate the issuance of an Amber Alert-which
ultimately helped find Haylee.

Nevertheless, Haylee will not be living with her grandmother when she
returns to Ohio. "She will be placed with a foster family in order for her
to be in a safe environment at this time," said Edith Gilliland, an attorney
for Children Services.

Attorneys Charles Lynch and Heather Cockley provided free assistance to Mary
Watson so she could obtain emergency custody of Haylee. Cockley said, "This
case is sort of in two parts. The first part is the filing of the emergency
custody to get the Missing Child Alert. The second part is determining what's
in the best interest of the child now that she's been found."

The Lancaster Eagle Gazette reported that two of Mary Watson's children have
been in trouble with the law. Candace Watson faces possible prison time for
assisting Potter's escape from a halfway house and for harboring a fugitive.
Her brother Cyle Watson, is serving eight years in prison for a probation
violation and has a prior conviction for the rape of a 12-year-old girl.

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