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Miami Herald (MH) - Tuesday September 24, 1991
Dexter Filkins; Herald Staff Writer
Her name is Tiffany Alisa Taylor, and she weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces at birth.
Doctors won't know for a few days whether the child carries HIV, said Taylor's attorney, Chief Assistant Public Defender Howard Finkelstein. He said the baby was born without any traces of cocaine in her bloodstream.
Taylor, 23, attracted a spate of attention last month when a Broward judge ordered her jailed on a $250,000 bond following her arrest on prostitution charges.
Broward County Court Judge Kathleen Kearney said she imposed the extraordinary bond to keep Taylor, a veteran Fort Lauderdale prostitute, from spreading the AIDS virus.
Taylor's medical needs quickly overwhelmed jail doctors, who did not have the facilities to treat her myriad health problems. A judge ordered Taylor moved to a special clinic for drug-addicted pregnant women at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where she is under house arrest.
"Danielle wanted to express her heartfelt appreciation to the courts, the media and the prosecutors for making it all possible," Finkelstein said. "She has turned her life around."
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