Cozy Dietrich (center) with his adoptive parents Anna and Tim Dietrich after his adoption hearing in Little Rock on Aug. 25, 2025. (Photo by Ainsley Platt/Arkansas Advocate)
Even the judge was smiling by the end of Cozy Dietrich’s adoption hearing.
Cozy had been in foster care longer than any other person in Arkansas’ foster system — until Monday morning, when Anna and Tim Dietrich of Little Rock adopted the nonverbal 19-year-old. He took his new family’s last name…