Wasn't the vote 3-2? This is whacked. The best interest of this child is to stay with her father
The adoptive parents should let go and find another child. So sad!

The adoptive parents should sue their attorneys/agency for fraud (though it seems like they were in on the scheme too), cut their losses and try to get another baby LEGITIMATELY elsewhere. This little girl belongs with her real family!

The mother also kept the dad/s of her other 2 children in the dark when giving birth to them. She has custody of these kids. Laws need to be changed to get the full consent of both parents before any adoption is to take place. The currnet laws make it to easy for wealthy, entitled folks to circumvent the law.

Dad never signed his rights away, he signed custody over to the bio mom which makes sense as he was being deployed.

The father tried to get the papers he signed back from the process server immediately after signing them....the server threatened him with jail if he took the papers back. The father then got in touch with an attorney. The bio mom seemed angry at the dad, and duped him by not telling him when the baby was born and telling the hospital to put her on a no contact list, which would keep her anonymous during her hospital stay. The pre-adoptive family also duped the dad by keeping the plans for adoption under wraps until kid was 4 mos old and dad was dayas away from being deployed to iraq. Shady dealings. Seems like dad and bio mom were not on good terms after she refused to marry him. She used their child as a way to hurt him. She really hurt the child most of all.

Anonymous wrote:While I feel sorry for the child, the biological father signed his rights away. If he didn't want his rights terminated, he shouldn't have signed any paperwork. If he and his attorneys felt the adoption was done faudently, they should have argued on those grounds. They didn't. They argued that because the biological father was a Native American, his child couldn't be adopted out. They were wrong.

He did not have an attorney at signing and did not fully know what he was signings.

Russia has banned adoptions in the U.S. and other countries have made it near impossible. It seems that baby selling and stealing will become ever more popular among rich white folks who want a baby, which is now a hot commodity in the U.S.

Anonymous wrote:The child should stay with her father, period. Are the foster parents so desperate, to take a child from her biological family?

Yes. They are desperate and will do anything. They wew not foster parents.

The birth mother and the rich white wanna be parents/couple (and their attorneys, btw-rich couple paid for bio moms attorney), skirted around the law and rushed to get the baby out of Oklahoma. They knew that the SC laws would swing more in their favor. This couple should not be allowed to fight this, they should be reprimanded for trying to take a baby illegally, and their attorneys should be dis-barred. The Night light
christian adoption agency is fraudulant and should be shut down. This is beginning to feel similar to all of the adoption fraud that takes place in third world countries.

While I feel sorry for the child, the biological father signed his rights away. If he didn't want his rights terminated, he shouldn't have signed any paperwork. If he and his attorneys felt the adoption was done faudently, they should have argued on those grounds. They didn't. They argued that because the biological father was a Native American, his child couldn't be adopted out. They were wrong.

Cherokee Nation is not letting this happen, folks. THEY have granted custody back to his family members. HAHAHAHA.

Like it or not, South Carolina is gonna have to fight it out with the Cherokees, which are a sovereign state under US Indian Law.

The child should stay with her father, period. Are the foster parents so desperate, to take a child from her biological family?

Now the Supreme Court has ordered the child go back to this pre-adoptive couple. Thay failed to take into account that the child is now almost 4 and has been living with her bio dad (and large extended family), for the past 19 months. This does not seem right. Seems like the adoption agency and the couples attorneys did not follow the law when taking this child out of her birth state, and did alot of other shady things in order to facillitate this couples "adoption". This country really needs to fix adoption laws so that rich, white couples can't just go and buy a baby, or actually steal a baby from its bio parent.
Sad too that fathers have little rights in this country.

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Anonymous wrote:

The father showed NO INTEREST/the birth/or first four months.

Wasn't he deployed?

He was and got the adoption papers on deployment. Did not realize what they were, signed them, realized it, tried to cancel it and they refused. They lied about many things in the process to get around the laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoptive_Couple_v._Baby_Girl

Although Oklahoma law requires that an Indian tribe be notified, Maldonado's attorney misspelled Brown's name and provided an incorrect date of birth, so the tribe was not put on notice of the proposed adoption.
that the record reflected that Maldonado informed both the adoption agency and the adoption attorney of the child's Cherokee heritage, but the notification to the tribe did not have the correct identifying information for the father
South Carolina law does not allow a father in Brown's position to contest an adoption
Four months after the birth of the child and just days from deployment to Iraq, Brown was served with notice of the proposed adoption. Brown signed the document, believing that he was relinquishing rights to Maldonado. Brown, once he realized what he was signing, immediately tried to retrieve the document, and failing that, contacted the Judge Advocate General at Fort Sill for assistance.[24] Seven days after being notified of the proposed adoption by the Capobiancos, Brown had obtained a stay of the adoption proceedings under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Actand he deployed with his Army unit to Iraq


In other words, for a father to have parental rights, he must live with mother for 6 months during the pregnancy, and provide financial support. This makes it easy for any jilted girlfriend to arrange an adoption without the fathers consent. The adoption follows South Carolina law because that where the child was returned from. The adoption was never finalized in Oklahoma, but by lying they were able to get her out of the state

The dad has 5 days to appeal, but according to South Carolina law he cannot claim to be a father. He has applied to adopt her in Oklahoma., and the adoptive parents will have to fight the courts there It will be interesting how this ends. I would like to see how this turns out. I think South Carolina law needs to be amended. The rules under which a man can challenge a proposed adoption plan are very restrictive

I cannot imagine fighting to adopt a child who has a bio parent who wants her. I am even more stunned that this is allowed in our country.