Grandparents who raised dozens of foster kids faced eviction — the community rallied to help them
(WXYZ) — Back in 2017, we first introduced people to Shana Risby, a young girl whose life story touched metro Detroit.
Risby was born to a drug-addicted mother and given up at birth, then raised by grandparents who opened their hearts — and their home —to dozens of foster children.
Those grandparents are Stephen and Loretta Rodriguez. They’ve been married 43 years and have sacrificed their lives to care for at-risk children in foster care. They believe they’ve taken care of 60 to 70 kids over the years.
“I’m just grateful that I was raised by two people whose main purpose is to pour love,” Risby told me about Loretta and Stephen Rodriguez.
Now, she’s all grown up and living in California, and is fighting to protect both of them.
“When they told me they were going to be evicted from their home, it was really shocking to me,” she said. “It’s something they’ve never experienced before.”
