A rare public plea by a judge to find a loving home for a child stuck in residential treatment led to a joyful adoption for 14-year-old Napoleon "Polo" Scott.
That Milwaukee County judge, Christopher Foley, presided at the hearing Friday and, as is his custom, invited Polo to wear a black robe, sit in the judge's chair and bang the gavel to make his own adoption official.
"It feels excellent," said the boy, who smiled nonstop but was too media-shy to say much more, except to thank his new family and the small army of case managers and child welfare workers present in Children's Court.