Birth father arrested in 'Baby Veronica' adoption fight

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The biological father of a Native American child was arrested Monday after defying a court order to return the girl to her adoptive parents, the latest development in a four-year case that has spanned state lines and tested an unusual federal law.

Matt and Melanie Capobianco, a white couple from South Carolina, legally adopted Veronica at birth in September 2009. When Veronica's father, Cherokee Nation member Dusten Brown, learned of her adoption a few months later, he asserted his custody rights under the Indian Child Welfare Act, setting off a lengthy legal fight.

A family court judge ruled in Brown's favor in late 2011, and he took his daughter back. The Capobiancos have fought ever since to have Veronica returned.

The case has bounced from family court to the U.S. Supreme Court and back again. After South Carolina's Supreme Court ruled last month to allow the Capobiancos' adoption to be finalized, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene, thus giving the ultimate go-ahead for the Charleston couple to regain custody of Veronica.

full: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/12/us/south-carolina-adoption/index.html

[LiberalEsto]

1. A humane outcome would be for all three to band together

and raise their daughter together.

[cali]

2. you are so right.

wish I could rec your post.

[LostOne4Ever]

4. Brilliant

Too bad I don't think that will ever happen.

[Tien1985]

3. The poor little girl :(

This has got to be hell for her.

[LostOne4Ever]

5. What a horrible situation

It sad no matter how I look at it.

[FreakinDJ]

6. Proof fathers have no rights to their children

[Donald Ian Rankin]

7. I think that fathers who don't choose to be involved from birth forfeit a lot of their rights.

And it says that it was several months before this guy even found out about the adoption.

[Quantess]

8. I read that this baby was something like 1/78 Cherokee

or some infinitessimally small part.