Four days before Christmas, a Redmond couple received their miracle.
Amy Fabbrini and Eric Ziegler's 10-month-old son Hunter will spend his first Christmas at home after a judge found the couple's limited cognitive abilities did not make them unfit to parent.
They brought Hunter home on Friday, a day after Circuit Judge Bethany Flint ruled the state had not proven he should remain under the care of the Oregon Department of Human Services. Hunter had been in foster care since he was born.
"I feel the threat articulated to Hunter is fairly amorphous," Flint said. "I searched and searched for some sort of language that was provided to articulate what the current threat of harm is to Hunter right now. ... There is no allegation that they're not able to meet his basic needs."
The couple will return to court in January to fight the termination of their parental rights over their older son, 4-year-old Christopher.