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The surprise ending to a foster kid’s plea for adoption

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CBS News: ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Hard to imagine, seeing him now. But Davion Only, a 17-year-old foster kid, was once a media darling. It happened a couple years ago when Davion stood up at a church service in St. Petersburg, Florida and asked for anyone to adopt him.

After his speech at church, Davion was invited to “The View,” and “ABC World News” made him “Person of the Week.” All of a sudden, this child no one wanted before became the most sought after kid in the foster system.

In its coverage “The View” called it: “An unprecedented movement that’s spreading so quickly it’s being called the ‘Davion Effect.'”

All those calls came to Eckerd, a private company contracted for child welfare services in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area. There were so many calls — about 10,000 — Eckerd had to set-up a phone bank just to handle them all. But in the end, this so called “Davion Effect,” had no effect on Davion.

“It’s a broken system. We have to fix it,” said Connie Going, who used to work for Eckerd and was Davion’s caseworker for years. “He’s a lovable, lovable kid.”

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