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Joneses win battle to adopt baby boy
A white Mormon couple from Tatum, Earl and Shirley Jones, won their fight to adopt eight month old Jonathan Brooks Bonner after the state Human Services Department withdrew its opposition. District Judge Thomas A. Donnelly approved the agreement and the child will be placed with the Joneses within ten days.
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Bill Feather
Associated Press
Santa FE
Tatum
Earl
Shirley Jane Jones
State Human Services Department
Joneses
HSD
Thomas A. Donnelly
Jonathan Brooks Bonner
Hobbs
Jonathan
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Human Services Department
Jones
al Carvajal
Albuquerque
Aaron
Donnelly
Department
Artesia
George Graham
Graham