, Editorial, Black Star News, Posted: May 11, 2007
Editor's note: A New York paper takes a stand against the sensationalism and exploitation of a young Ugandan boy brought to the United States from a war-torn area of Uganda.
Jeanette Quinn, the Northampton woman who brought an eight year old Ugandan boy from Gulu, a town devastated by civil war, to the United States, ostensibly to seek medical treatment for severe wounds turns out to be a self-seeking publicity hound.
Quinn must immediately surrender guardianship of the boy, Opiyo Ivance, whom she brought to this country under dubious representation.
The Black Star News will encourage and promote legal action against Quinn unless she steps aside.
This newspaper has learned that since the publication of a one-sided whitewash article in The New York Times this week, Quinn has been contacted by Hollywood producers: She planned to bring them to the Brooklyn hospital where Opiyo is now being monitored.
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