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See our original coverage on this story here: Police use Assault Weapons and Tank against Home School Mom wanting to protect daughter from Dangerous Medications

What Modern Day Heroes Look Like—Detroit Mother Maryanne Godboldo & Attorney Allison Folmar

by Kelly Patricia O’Meara
Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

It has been said that “heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.”

Maryanne Godboldo and Allison Folmar are extraordinary women. Their names may not elicit immediate recognition by the masses but it is because of their belief in the right of parents—not the state—to decide whether to medicate a child, that their struggle will protect thousands of children who otherwise would have become victims of deeply flawed State Child Protective Services policies.