Judge Kendra Ausby, Mitchell Lanier, age 5, Elladonna Lanier, Messiah Lanier, age 2, Judge W. Michel Pierson, Chiquita Polk, social worker and Judge Emanuel Brown take a moment to celebrate after the National Adoption Day Ceremony at The Clarence Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse November 23, 2019
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Thirty-Two Children In Baltimore Celebrate ‘Forever’ Families On National Adoption Day
If you told 56-year-old Belair-Edison resident Elladonna Lanier two years ago that she was going to be a parent, she would have said it was never going to happen. Fast forward to last weekend, she is now officially the proud mother of two brothers, Mitchell, who is five-years-old, and Messiah who is two-years-old.