The state took these children away – then used their parents’ low IQ scores to keep them apart

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Amethyst Gibson, also known as Abbi, brought her son Dean home just before Christmas in 2022 to a rented room in Bend, Oregon, from Tina Berlin-Dungan. The living space was prepared with all necessary baby supplies. Shortly after, a caseworker from the Oregon DHS, accompanied by police officers, arrived with a court order to remove Dean from his mother.