INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- A local man said he's upset a judge took away a foster son because he is obese.
Gary Stocklaufer weighs 500 pounds. He said a family court judge ruled this week that he wasn't fit enough to be an adoptive father.
"It's out-and-out discrimination," Stocklaufer said. "We don't have a checkered past. We don't have a rap sheet, like a lot of people do. We don't have any cases of abuse."
Stocklaufer is a state-certified foster parent. He and his wife, Cynthia, had taken in baby Max from a cousin who couldn't raise him. The couple also has an adopted son named Bobby.
Stocklaufer said Max's biological mother had signed over parental rights to them in April. He said he and his wife wanted to formally adopt Max, so they went to family court and expected quick approval.
They didn't get it.
"We had Max for three months. He was taken away around the 13th of last month," Stocklaufer told KMBC's Jim Flink. "He means the world to us, and our world has been taken out from underneath of us."
Stocklaufer said his weight should remain immaterial to his being an adoptive father.
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