Quote From: feistydFriday, February 27, 2009 By Leslie Miller
LOS ANGELES, Mid-Wilshire (KABC) -- Nadya Suleman was offered help to provide for her medical and emotional needs of her children. But she turned that offer down. Besides the octuplets, Suleman has six other young children.
Nadya Suleman is a single, unemployed mother of 14, including octuplets born a month ago. She's about to lose her home and does not have the financial means to care for her children. So why would she turn down a charitable offer of help?
Only Suleman knows for sure, but attorney Gloria Allred believes Suleman is more interested in profiting from her kids.
Allred wants the world to know that the woman known as "octomom" doesn't want her help. Allred represents Angels In Waiting, a nonprofit group that offered 24-hour-seven-days-a-week care for Nadya Suleman's 14 children in a home where they'd receive individualized care from professionals.
Nadya and her parents would be welcome and the family could be together," said Allred. "Angels In Waiting would ask the public for donations and there would be no burden to the taxpayer."
After several phone conversations with Suleman, Allred and Angels In Waiting had a meeting set up with her for last Monday, but Suleman never showed.
They say Suleman seemed more interested in capitalizing on her infants than caring for them -- by asking to do a reality show -- and hold press conferences every two weeks updating the babies' conditions.
"I told her a reality show is a definite no," said Linda West Conforti, Angels In Waiting. "I educated Nadya that we would have a total of 28 people a day in our home and that her preemies are an open Petri dish due to their low immune system."
Allred says she set a deadline for Suleman to accept the offer, to give Angels In Waiting time to get their team in place and seek donations from the public, before the babies are released from the hospital. That deadline expired at midnight Thursday. Allred says she and Angels In Waiting are concerned about the protection of Suleman's children.
"We believe the next step should be that the L.A. County Department of Child and Family Services, with whom I have filed a request for an investigation, should make sure that these children are protected," said Allred.
Nadya Suleman's publicist was not available for comment. As for the octuplets, they remain hospitalized in stable condition. Doctors say they are alert, responsive, and doing well.
Did anyone see Nadya's interview with Dr. Phil? I missed it, but I read the entire transcript last night...
http://drphil.com/shows/show/1231
It was rather lenthy, going back and forth about how she "never intended to have octuplets...maybe one or two, at most" (which was strange in and of itself) and her insistance with Dr. Phil that she "hates the media attention" just doesn't square with this story... hmmmm. Dr. Phil also interviewed Nadya's mom, along side Nadya, and I gotta say that something is definately off with that mother-daughter relationship, to say the least. I don't know, her mother just does and says things that give me pause for concern... like tricking her daughter into seeing a tharapist (????) stating on national television that her daughter "will be punished" for her choices (???? well, that's a given, but it seemed like she was hoping for retribution) what kind of mother does that, and how can anyone expect the rest of America to see Nadya with compassion if her own mother is wishing her ill on national tv, no less? In my opinion, Dr. Phil has some work to do in that area as well... for the sake of Nadya's emotional well being and for the sake of the entire family. Am I correct in that the hospital has declared that it WILL NOT release the babies to Nadya until she furnishes a home with enough room for them all?
