"Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Maria Alyokhina, 24, were scrambling to arrange foster-care agreements to prevent social workers from taking the tots away from their families"
Sounds like they did know what they were risking, their families are already looking after the kids. What they didn't expect was the government to try and remove the children from their families.
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HappyToast Groat froth, Sun 19 Aug 2012, 15:26,
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