{"id":1571,"date":"2023-03-28T00:44:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T00:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2023-03-28T01:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T01:22:57","slug":"janet-protasiewicz-fought-to-remove-twins-from-black-grandmother-even-after-she-bought-a-6-bedroom-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1571","title":{"rendered":"Janet Protasiewicz Fought to Remove Twins From Black Grandmother Even After She Bought a 6 Bedroom Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/janet-protasiewicz-fought-to-remove-twins-from-black-grandmother\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/janet-protasiewicz-fought-to-remove-twins-from-black-grandmother\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI would have to question whether or not she (Janet Protasiewicz) looked at us as humans or she looked at us as the \u2018N-word.\u2019\u201d <\/em><\/strong>-Denise Goggans, the twins\u2019 aunt<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>TOP FACTS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A black grandmother, Margaret Hudson, lost custody of her grandchildren after it was determined her home was too small. \u201cI was raised in a family, and we stick together. That\u2019s what families do,\u201d said Hudson, who fought the case to the Supreme Court.<\/li>\n<li>Janet Protasiewicz, acting as an assistant district attorney, was the prosecutor who fought tooth-and-nail to take the 5-year-old twins from the black grandmother and give them to a single, childless white woman on Milwaukee\u2019s south side.<\/li>\n<li>A black Milwaukee judge, Joe Donald, ruled the twins should stay with the grandmother, saying she \u201cnever wavered in her desire or her love for her grandchildren.\u201d But Protasiewicz appealed the judge\u2019s decision all the way to the Wisconsin Supreme Court even after the grandmother purchased a 6-bedroom home.<\/li>\n<li>The twins would eventually be placed with the adoptive single white mother favored by Protasiewicz who lived in an even smaller two-bedroom home on Milwaukee\u2019s far south side. But the twins ended up having a difficult life in some ways and, by age 13, they were returned to their birth family after years of traumatic separation.<\/li>\n<li>Protasiewicz wrote that she had the \u201chonor\u201d of arguing the case before the state Supreme Court and said the state \u201cprevailed.\u201d She described working on the case as a \u201cvery fulfilling experience\u201d and \u201crewarding.\u201d We asked Protasiewicz today if she regrets the decision. She did not respond.<\/li>\n<li>This happened during the time frame when Protasiewicz allegedly used racial slurs to refer to black parents in Children\u2019s Court and other cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Around the same time she is accused of using a vile racial slur to refer to black parents in Children\u2019s Court, Janet Protasiewicz, then a prosecutor, fought tooth-and-nail to remove two 5-year-old African-American twins from their black grandmother\u2019s care and give them to a single white adoptive mother on Milwaukee\u2019s south side over the objections of the grandma, aunt, and a highly regarded black judge, Wisconsin Right Now has documented.<\/p>\n<p>The Milwaukee grandmother, Margaret Hudson, initially lost the twin boys, Darryl and Durrell, <strong>because she did not have a big enough house<\/strong>, court records show. In fact, that was the \u201conly obstacle,\u201d Protasiewicz admitted in a court brief:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103273 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/imageonline-co-straightend-image-1-e1679923421436-1024x148-1.jpg\" alt=\"Janet Protasiewicz Fought to Remove Twins From Black Grandmother\" width=\"1024\" height=\"148\" title=\"Janet Protasiewicz Fought to Remove Twins From Black Grandmother\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103274 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/imageonline-co-straightend-image-scaled-e1679923369474.jpg\" alt=\"Janet Protasiewicz Fought to Remove Twins From Black Grandmother\" width=\"2560\" height=\"377\" title=\"Janet Protasiewicz Fought to Remove Twins From Black Grandmother\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The grandmother, then in her 60s, fought ferociously, and ultimately unsuccessfully, to raise her own kin. \u201cThey are my grandchildren. They ain\u2019t anybody else\u2019s. They\u2019re mine, and I want them with their brothers and their sisters, and I want them with me,\u201d Margaret told the court, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103203\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/97514-e1679920102457-707x1024-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Janet Protasiewicz Fought to Remove Twins From Black Grandmother\" width=\"400\" height=\"579\" title=\"Janet Protasiewicz Fought to Remove Twins From Black Grandmother\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the most shocking angles in the 1999 case, however, is that property records show that Hudson, who skipped family reunions and social events to scrimp and save for years, DID manage to eventually buy a bigger house along Sheridan Avenue in 1998, but Protasiewicz continued trying to take her grandkids away anyway.<\/p>\n<p>One of the twins, Darryl Guentner, told WRN that his adoptive mother\u2019s house was smaller than the new six-bedroom house that Hudson purchased, although there were more people in the latter.\u00a0 But even that was not enough for Protasiewicz and others in the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/janet-protasiewicz-fought-to-remove-twins-from-black-grandmother\/ \u201cI would have to question whether or not she&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}