This woman was convicted of abusing her non-verbal child a few years ago

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And now that child IS verbal and told everybody how it REALLY happened.

So the conviction is overturned. So far, so good, this is justice.

But they still have no idea what the procedure is to reinstate her parental rights, given that there was a deadline she missed (due to being in prison). C'mon, guys, there HAS to be a procedure for this already! (Well, I doubt paperwork will hold this up too much.)

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Even if there's not a precedent (which would surprise me, can't be the first time a parent's had a conviction overturned - though perhaps the first time it's happened in quite this way) or a proscribed procedure, it seems like the most obvious thing in the world. Surely. When you have a conviction overturned, penalties incurred as a result of that conviction should immediately cease.