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I know they = are going to die. This foster father takes in only terminally ill children = Mohamed Bzeek Mohamed Bzeek holds the hand of his 6 year old foster daughte= r who was born with a rare brain malformation and cannot see hear or speak.= He has cared for terminally ill foster children in L.A. County for more th= an two decades. Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times Hailey Branson Potts Hailey= Branson PottsContact Reporter The children were going to die. Mohamed Bzee= k knew that. But in his more than two decades as a foster father he took th= em in anyway the sickest of the sick in Los Angeles County s sprawling fost= er care system. He has buried about 10 children. Some died in his arms. Now= Bzeek spends long days and sleepless nights caring for a bedridden 6 year = old foster girl with a rare brain defect. She s blind and deaf. She has dai= ly seizures. Her arms and legs are paralyzed. Bzeek a quiet devout Libyan b= orn Muslim who lives in Azusa just wants her to know she s not alone in thi= s life. I know she can t hear can t see but I always talk to her he said. I= m always holding her playing with her touching her. She has feelings. She = has a soul. She s a human being. He s the only one that would take a child = who would possibly not make it. Melissa Testerman Department of Children an= d Family Services intake coordinator Of the 35 000 children monitored by th= e county s Department of Children and Family Services there are about 600 c= hildren at any given time who fall under the care of the department s Medic= al Case Management Services which serves those with the most severe medical= needs said Rosella Yousef an assistant regional administrator for the unit= There is a dire need for foster parents to care for such children. And th= ere is only one person like Bzeek. If anyone ever calls us and says This ki= d needs to go home on hospice there s only one name we think of said Meliss= a Testerman a DCFS intake coordinator who finds placements for sick childre= n. He s the only one that would take a child who would possibly not make it= Typically she said children with complex conditions are placed in medical= facilities or with nurses who have opted to become foster parents. But Bze= ek is the only foster parent in the county known to take in terminally ill = children Yousef said. Though she knows the single father is stretched thin = caring for the girl who requires around the clock care Yousef still approac= hed him at a department Christmas party in December and asked if he could p= ossibly take in another sick child. This time Bzeek politely declined. Bzee= k is a quiet religious man who wants his foster daughter to know she s not = alone in this life. Bzeek is a quiet religious man who wants his foster dau= ghter to know she s not alone in this life. Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times= The girl sits propped up with pillows in the corner of Bzeek s living room= couch. She has long thin brown hair pulled into a ponytail and perfectly a= rched eyebrows over unseeing gray eyes. Because of confidentiality laws the= girl is not being identified. But a special court order allowed The Times = to spend time at Bzeek s home and to interview people involved in his foste= r daughter s case. The girl s head is too small for her 34 pound body which= is too small for her age. She was born with an encephalocele a rare malfor= mation in which part of her brain protruded through an opening in her skull= according to Dr.

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