Todd Ochs, from left, Janet Agranoff, Mei Lynn Ochs, 14, Maggie Ochs, 17, and Anna Choi, 17, have dinner together, May 7, 2013. Mei Lynn and Maggie were adopted from China, and Anna is a friend living with the Ochs this year. (At front are Lily Ochs, 18, Pim Sunsaneevithayak, 17, and Nora Ochs, 11). Ochs and Agranoff, in addition to their own daughter, adopted four girls from China who each had medical issues. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/MCT)
A Chicago couple went the extra mile to give four abandoned children in China a second chance in life.
AN outraged Janet Agranoff watched in 1996 as 60 Minutes aired a report about “dying rooms” in Chinese orphanages, where infants and toddlers – most of them girls – were left to starve. When the report ended, the obstetrician-turned-stay-at-home-mum looked at her husband and said: “We’re going to China.”
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