Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts

              
The Case of Hildy McCoy
Certain omissions in your recording of the
Hildy  McCoy-Ellis  adoption  case   
week. July 18) require comment ...
.Whatever    Dr.     Herman    

Hildy McCoy, the innocent bystander
arranged the adoption, may say, the Probate
Court has found that it was not until March
27, 1951, that Marjorie McCoy discovered
that the Elh's family was Jewish. The child,
Hildy, at that time was 5 weeks old and
from that moment her mother has done
everything possible to win back her child for
placement in a Catholic home (not in an
institution, as your story mentioned).
In the months of May and June of 1951
both Dr. Sands and the Ellis attorney advised the Jewish couple to return the child
and not allow her to become attached to the
family... It is perfectly clear from the facts
as given in the court record that the Ellis
couple, in full knowledge of the requirements of the law, set out from the beginning
to defy it. They intended to use the affections of a little child to assist them. They
must bear the responsibility for the present
heartache.
Vkhy Rev. Msch. Francis J. Lam.
Editor
The Pilot
Huston. Mass.
The klea that any court would take a child
from a loving home and place her in an
orphanage is unbelievable ...
Hildy's mother. Mrs. Doherty, although
now married, still docs not want the cluld
but would rather tear her from those she
loves and who love her, and place her in an
orphanage—all because of a difference in
religion .. .
In offering to raise Hildy [as a] Catholic the Ellises have "bent over backward"
in an attempt to do what is desired by
the mother.
As a schoolteacher I can well imagine
some of the upsetting and lasting effects on
Hildy that this unfair separation would bring.
LOIS   E.   
Chicago.  III.
I profess to be a Catholic but I take great
issue with the official Catholic archdioccsan    
newspaper The Boston Pilot. Just the thought  
of returning the child to the orphanage on  
Newgweek