Wooten v. Wallace

NEELY, Justice:

In 1981 Lorraine Wooten was a young, twice-divorced, desperately unhappy mother of a 372-year-old daughter, Sabrina Mack. Mrs. Wooten had been divorced from Samuel Mack in 1980 and granted legal custody of Sabrina under the supervision of the Child Welfare Department of Loraine County, Ohio. Within thirty days of her divorce from Mr. Mack, Mrs. Wooten married Mr. Randy Ross. Marital problems with Mr. Ross developed within three months of the marriage and Mrs. Wooten and Mr. Ross were divorced in September, 1980. Mrs. Wooten lost a second child, the progeny of her marriage to…