Group: Octuplets mom turned down house

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Nadya Suleman, the California woman who gave birth to octuplets, has rejected an offer to provide 24-hour nursing for the children, a lawyer said Friday.

In an interview on the CBS "Early Show," Gloria Allred, who represents Angels in Waiting, said that the group offered Suleman a house where she could have lived with the octuplets and the six children she already had, the Los Angeles Times reported. Angels in Waiting, based in Blue Jay, Calif., is a non-profit organization created to help medically fragile foster children.

The group would have provided care from volunteer nurses and other early childhood specialists, Allred said.

"There would have been no burden on the taxpayers," Allred said. "Instead, now, it may be that the taxpayers are going to have to foot the bill for all of this."

Allred said she has also filed a complaint with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.

Shortly after the octuplets were born, news media reported that Suleman was single, unemployed and living with her own parents and that all her children were conceived through in vitro fertilization with a single sperm donor.