Corruption Out of Benton County

I actually had another post planned, but this one is immensely urgent.  There is another illegal adoption going down and the father is up against an entire court filled with monsters.

Trent Reicks did everything the law required of him to assert his rights over his daughter.  He wasn't supposed to know about the mother's plan to give their baby up behind his back, but when he was informed of the mother's plan, he wanted to make sure the law was on his side.

What Trent didn't know was that the couple seeking to claim his daughter as their own were lawyers.  Paul Morris worked out of a local firm Wright, Lindsey and Jennings LLP and the wife, Stephanie McLemore (Morris) was the deputy prosecuting attorney.  Already, one can tell that this was not going to be an easy fight for Trent.

Trent met with the couple in the hopes that they would realize that his daughter had a family that wanted her and would turn her over.  They had no intention of giving Trent his baby.  As a matter of fact, they informed him if he attempted to fight, they'd make sure he never received a scrap of info on the infant.

Trent took a chance and started legal proceedings to protect his right to parent his daughter.  The judge, Xollie Duncan, granted the Morris' petition to TPR Trent on the grounds of unreasonably with-holding consent.  I shit you not.  They terminated his rights on what amounts to a bullshit reason.  As far as I know, such grounds do not even exist, but this disgusting bitch judge did just that.  It should also be noted that Duncan is actually Paul and Stephanie's friend.  Is this not a massive conflict of interest?  How can the judge overseeing an adoption case keep bias out of their decision when the couple seeking to kidnap (i mean, "adopt") are her own best buds? 

Then, to add insult to injury, this skanky judge put a gag on the case to ensure Trent couldn't speak out against the corruption or go to the media regarding the kidnapping of his daughter.

As far as I know, Duncan finalized the adoption and the two kidnapping lawyers were good to their word about keeping Trent out of the loop regarding his daughter.  They want him to vanish.  No doubt Trent is working on an appeal.  I don't know for sure since the kidnappers and their judge friend slapped a gag order down, but here's to hope.  He did everything by the book and has a solid case.  The connections and conflict of interest in the adoption case is enough for him to fight and take it to higher courts.  

The world needs to know that Benton County Arkansas is run by kidnappers and friends of kidnappers.  Paul Morris, Stephanie McLemore and Xollie Duncan conspired and kidnapped a baby at birth and then TPR'd the father on non existent grounds.

Let the world see them all.  Kidnappers.  Thieves.  Monsters.  Your lie will not live forever.

The lawyers, Paul and Stephanie:  

 And here is their judge friend, Xollie Dunan:

 

Veronica Brown - One Year Later

Today marks the one year anniversary of the kidnapping of Veronica Brown by Matt and Melanie Capobianco.  They are still insisting on privacy and keep her hidden from public view.  Rumors are circulating that the child is indeed being isolated from others, only paraded around a select handful of people, not allowed access to any other children and being drugged heavily to keep her compliant.  Recent photos found of Veronica show a child who has lost her spark and who has gained a significant amount of weight, which most know is usually a sign a child is being drugged with something.  

I would like to think the weight gain is due to unhealthy eating habits, and it's possible this may be the case.  After all, the kidnappers planned to use cookie therapy.  Whenever she cried for her Daddy, give her a cookie to shut her up so they wouldn't have to be face to face with the hurt and confusion they caused.  It's just as likely they're feeding her pain with food and now causing a potential eating disorder.  Whatever is happening, they're to blame for it, plain and simple.

Both Tulsa World and The Post and Courier ran brief articles about the one year mark.  Both the Browns and the kidnappers have refused any interviews.  Dusten Brown is still being manipulated and strong armed to remain silent about what he thinks of them snatching his child away.  He's not allowed to say how outraged he is.  He's supposed to act like they're some big happy fucking family when these monsters used the courts to kidnap HIS daughter, put charges against him for refusing to give them HIS daughter and now has to watch his daughter be abused through food manipulation, possibly drugs and complete social isolation by a couple of monsters who paid everyone off around him to take his baby from him.

Yes, she is being abused.  What happened to her is child abuse.  These monsters took her from her family, forced a fake identity onto her, isolate her from everyone and are either shoving food or drugs down her throat to keep her compliant.  The kidnappers might not be physically harming her, but what they've done and continue to do to this child is abuse all the same.

One has to wonder just why the kidnappers are not flaunting their prize on the one year mark.  If she is as happy and adjusted as their circle of supporters and friends are claiming, why not post her face on national TV proclaiming her love and adoration for her new mommy and daddy? *please excuse me while I vomit*  After all, they flaunted her face and name in every media outlet that gave them face-time, they made sure the public knew who Veronica Brown was.  And other than a few photos taken mere days after she was snatched, no public photos of the child have been released.  The Capobiancos have proven themselves to be utter media whores and no doubt would have jumped at the chance to flaunt their little puppet trophy onto live television if she was as happy and content as they all are trying to claim.  

Their refusal to do media interviews and refusal to show the world Veronica Brown on the one year mark of her kidnapping reveal a lot more than anyone is willing to admit.  That Veronica Brown is not happy and adjusted.  That she still asks for her Daddy and when she can go home.  Their illusion of this happy family would be smashed to dust once the world got a glimpse of how Veronica was really doing.  And if they are drugging her or using food to feed her pain, all the more reason to keep her hidden away.  The world cannot know that Veronica is unhappy, angry, possibly overweight and still wanting to go back home to her Daddy in Oklahoma.  

Sadly, the world considers Veronica Brown old news now.  We're all supposed to just be glad she was snatched by a "loving" family and should just leave her alone and let her have peace.  The Capobiancos are the ones responsible for turning her into a public figure and no, we will not leave it alone.  She didn't deserve to be kidnapped through the courts and forced to live with strangers.  She didn't deserve to have her complete identity stripped from her.  She didn't deserve to have her name (AKA Baby Girl) listed along with her father and the Cherokee Nation in a lawsuit filed by the kidnappers.  The Capobiancos are the ones responsible for the public knowing who Veronica Brown is.  And now they're keeping her hidden to keep their abuses from becoming known.  Keeping her hidden because the world can't see what they've turned her into.  Screw peace.  Make those monsters fear stepping out their doors.  They will never have a moment's peace until Veronica escapes from them.  

Just remember, Matt and Melanie, your crime will not be brushed under the rug forever.  You and your friends from Trio Solutions can't silence everyone.

They Call Us Anti-Adoption

Titles can be annoying.  For some, it's easier to slap a title onto a group in an effort to deflect and sway the opinion of outsiders.  It's a handy weapon in the heat of battle, especially when there are those involved in the debate/battle who are not completely familiar with the situation at hand or the two opposing groups.

Trio and the minions love to refer to many of us as an anti-adoption group.  It was used during the last legal battle and is again being used in the more current legal battle.  It's a knee jerk terminology.  Something that strikes a nerve with the populace who is often only familiar with the feel good stories that appear in the local papers.  After all, who in their right mind is against an institution that helps find homes and families for children in dire need of one?  How often do you hear from those who talk about the need to find homes for the orphans in third world countries or those poor abused foster children who would have died if left in the care of their biological families?  When people hear the word adoption, this is what they see and believe.  Children who need a home.  Children who will die in their country of origin or languish in foster care if some wonderful family doesn't open their home.

They call us anti-adoption because we do not support all adoptions.  They believe that once the child is placed in that home, no matter what laws were skirted or outright broken, the child should remain there.  Refusing to support entitled couples who believe they have more right to a child than their own biological family means you're anti-adoption.  Refusing to support forced adoption means you're anti-adoption.  Refusing to support manipulation of the courts to keep a child a couple is not entitled to means you're anti-adoption.

SM and VB are just two cases in which the supporters for the abductors (i.e. potential adoptive family) have called us anti-adoption.  Refusing to support the discriminative laws in place that rob fathers of their right to their children means we are against adoption as a whole.  Never mind that these laws were put in place by the adoption industry itself in an effort to keep their commodity flowing.  Can't make their money if those pesky fathers have equal rights to their children, right?

Those who support the Hodgins and the kidnappers of VB support the dark side of adoption.  They are against families having the right to raise their children.  They support laws being skirted and in some cases, outright broken.  They support unethical means to obtain a child.  They support the current laws in place to keep fathers away.  They support ripping children from their homes and forcing them to live a life of slavery in another home with another couple and support forcing that child to call their abductors mom and dad.  They support foster couples side-stepping Children's Services and dependency laws in an effort to claim a foster child as their own, even with the child's family fighting to get the child back.

They support holding onto a child that is not theirs to hold onto in an effort to sway the courts and the public.  After all, how often do you hear "well, if the parents really loved their child, they'd give up and not take the child from the only home they know".  This is their ammo.  Obtain and restrain.  The longer they can hold onto the child, the better their chances.  Never mind if the child's family had been fighting since the beginning, once the legal battle has spanned a few years, the biological family is then seen as the monster trying to rip the child from their home.  And if you are unwilling to side with the wanna be adoptive parents, you are labeled anti-adoption.

I don't doubt there are those who are truly anti-adoption.  I have heard from quite a few adoptees themselves who believe adoption should be eradicated completely and only guardianship be available.  Adoption in its current form erases the child's history, that is a fact.  Seals their birth records and any information of their family of origin forever under the misguided ideal of "birth parent privacy".  Those who are truly against adoption are not against a child having a permanent home, but believe a permanent home with strangers should be a last resort and the child should still be able to keep their heritage, name and access to their records.  Guardianship gives a person almost all the same rights as a parent, but doesn't change the child's record of birth and history.  The only issue with this is that those who seek to raise a child as their own often want the records of the child's birth altered and changed to reflect them as the child's family.  They want the fraudulent birth certificate that erases the child's parents' names and puts the strangers' names in their place.  They prefer the "as if born to" ideal that has haunted the adoption world since the days of Georgia Tann.  

I'm not anti-adoption.  I support adoption when all is done legally and ethically (both parents consenting, no coercion, or the father being served properly and given time to contest should he wish to do so).  I support adoption when it is about finding a home for a child that truly needs one. It's clear in the SM case and the VB case that efforts were made to side-step the father.  Clear that it has nothing to do with finding a home for a child.  Both cases clearly are about finding a child for a couple at all costs.  Refusing to support the entitlement of strangers does not make us anti-adoption.  Refusing to support the current adoption practices and laws does not make anyone anti-adoption.  We are against illegal adoptions, unethical adoptions and the dehumanization of the child's family.  We are against those who seek to make it open season on our children.  Foster families should have no right to circumvent Children's Services or family in an effort to claim a child as their own.  Wanna be adoptive couples should have no right to battle a mother and/or father in court for the right to raise a child.  These cases highlight the proof that it is never about the child, but about the people hell-bent on taking that child.  

Those who seek to take children from fit families know they are wrong and know it is only about them and not the child.  The Capobiancos and the Hodgins are poster children for entitlement.  It was and is always about what they want and to hell with everyone else, including the children they claim to love.  And Trio encourages this entitlement.  Of course, the public cannot know it's all about the non-related adults who want the child as their own.  Easier to spin the tale of the deadbeat father who abandoned his pregnant ex-fiance or the jailbird father who spent most of the child's life in prison.  Hit the unsuspecting public in their heart.  Paint the entitled couples as saviors to these poor children who can provide so much more than the child's family.  

And if you refuse to believe their bullshit and dare to investigate the case further, you are automatically labeled as anti-adoption.   

The Free Veronica Brown Campaign (National Day of Action)

It's happening again, folks.  It's the National Day of Action.  Free Veronica Brown.

For those on the fence about the case, let me point out a few things:


- Dusten Brown fought for four years to raise his daughter.  He didn't just come in 2 yrs later and take her.  He'd been fighting since she was a few months old and it took until she was 2 for the courts to order the Capobiancos to turn her over to him.  

- Custody was ordered to Dusten in September 2011, but the C's would defy that order and hold onto her an additional 3 months.  (yet we notice no charges were ever put against them for their defiance)

- The Capobiancos created a huge crowd and media frenzy the night of the transfer, giving no thought whatsoever how it would effect Veronica.

- The Capobiancos had to hire a marketing firm to sway public opinion.

- This marketing firm, Trio, was the main culprit behind most of the media reports of this case, making sure the reports were sympathetic to the kidnappers and constantly twisting things to make Dusten look like a deadbeat.

- The lawyer who represented Veronica's mother (paid for by the Capobiancos) called Veronica and her older sister, Kelsey, "illegitimate spawn".

- This same lawyer, who technically was part of the Capobianco's legal team, has personal ties to Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.

- Justice Roberts is also an adoptive parent to two children under shady circumstances.

- Trio waged a smear campaign against Veronica's father, Dusten.  They had employees swamp news articles about the case, citing exaggerated information about Dusten.  They even tried to claim he was a felon and had numerous drug charges, when in fact this was another man named Dustin Brown.  They brought up past arrears in child support that Dusten had for his older child, failing to also mention that Dusten and his ex had sorted that out.  They also tried to claim he abandoned his older child when in fact he had a very strong and positive relationship with his older daughter.

- When the fraudulent adoption was finalized and Dusten was ordered to hand Veronica over to her kidnappers, he refused.  He utilized his legal options and appealed.  The judge who finalized the adoption had also just been served with a lawsuit naming him with several others for human and civil right violations.  In retaliation of the lawsuit, the judge filed contempt of court charges against Dusten and custodial interference (funny how the Capobiancos did the same thing Dusten did and no lawsuits were ever filed against them).

- After obtaining their trophy child, the Capobiancos filed a massive lawsuit against Dusten, the Cherokee Nation and Veronica herself in the tune of a million dollars.  They named the very child they claimed they "wanted more" in a lawsuit.  If they win, they will own her completely.  She will never own the  rights to herself or her story.  Their goal is to make sure she will never be able to go against them.  It's like they now will hold copyright to her body, name and soul.

Everyone involved in the kidnapping of Veronica Brown worked together to rip this child from her father's home and also make sure Veronica herself will never have a voice. Trio and its minions have systematically scrubbed the internet of her story save for the media articles and a few blogs.  Those who support her father and her civil rights have been reported time and time again for posting her pictures.  Even pictures taken from when she was with her Daddy, pictures the kidnappers have no right to dictate.  Their goal is complete whitewash of her story and eradicate any trace of her former life from the internet.

It's a day of action, my friends.  We will not back down until Veronica Brown is home with her daddy.  The people who currently have ownership will harm her in ways we will never fully comprehend.  They will lie, manipulate and most likely drug her to keep her compliant.  They will work hard to destroy her spirit and make her as empty as they are.  Demons with human faces.  They cannot win.

Save Veronica Brown.

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION!!!!

Tomorrow, April 22 2014, I would like for everyone who is reading this and who supports Veronica Brown's return to her rightful family to follow the instructions listed in the picture below.  Urge the Department of Justice to investigate the unethical and fraudulent adoption of Veronica Brown to the kidnappers, Matt and Melanie Capobianco.  Urge a full investigation into every person who involved themselves into tearing her from her father's home! 

-Matt Capobianco
-Melanie Duncan (Capobianco)
-Trio Solutions
-Jessica Munday
-Christina Maldonado
-Troy Dunn
-Lori McGill
-Ray Godwin
-Mary Fallin
-Nikki Haley
-Judge Daniel Martin 
-Supreme Court Justice John Roberts 

Push as hard as we can.  Little Star needs to be home where she belongs!

The Strange and Confusing Case of Foster Family Hodgin vs Bio Family

This is a story about a foster family, a little girl and the battle that continues against the little girl's biological family.

It started when this little girl - who I will refer to as S - went with a family friend to TN from NE.  Little girl S was just a wee babe when this took place.  The caretaker claimed she was going to help with an ailing family member.  The child's father - referred to as JM in this entry - had given the caretaker permission to take the child with her.  What JM didn't realize until he tried to retrieve his child was that little girl S was caught in a tug of war between the caretaker's family and another family who the caretaker apparently worked for.  There is some confusion here as to what exactly took place, but in the end, the family who was battling the caretaker - the Hodgins - managed to get CPS involved and had little girl S placed in their care, which unless I am mistaken is a huge conflict of interest.  The reporting party generally cannot be considered as a placement option unless they have actual biological ties to the child.

Back in NE, the father JM was trying to get his daughter back.  When he attempted to get law enforcement involved, an office (with alleged ties to the families trying to take S) told him he'd be arrested for abandonment.  JM sent friends in an attempt to retrieve his daughter and they were rebuffed at the door.

So the Hodgins became S's foster parents.  Again this is where things get a tad grey in regards to what happened.  JM's mother was approved as a placement option and this was overlooked.  Over the course of several years, the Hodgins would fight JM and even TN CPS itself in an effort to adopt S.

JM is not a saint.  He is a hard working man who made some mistakes in his youth.  Around the time the fight truly started, something happened and JM ended up in prison to serve a 15 yr sentence.  My understanding is this was based off the 3 strikes laws.  The crime did not really warrant the hefty sentence, but because he had two strikes against him as a young man, that was all that was needed.  So because of this sentence, the Hodgins used this as their "abandonment" claim and managed to have JM and the child's mother TPR'd and adopted S.  This was not a CPS approved adoption.  The Hodgins worked this at the private adoption angle.  

JM's sentence was reduced and he successfully had the adoption overturned.  At this point, S should have been returned to NE into the care of JM or his mother, but the Hodgins held on.  It would be another 4 or 5 yrs before the Hodgins were ordered to return S to JM's care.  TN CPS set up transition plans, which were ignored by the Hodgins.  They figured the longer they balked at returning S, the better their chances were some court would relent and allow them to keep her.  The same formula we see with numerous other adoption cases of adopters vs fathers.  "We're the only family she knows" has become their mantra.

TN CPS finally puts their foot down.  Tells the Hodgins they have only a short amount of time to get her ready and to have her at their office pronto.  There is no transition into her father's care but this is because the Hodgins ignored the transition plans and fought to keep her when they had no legal standing to do so.

Little girl S, who is now 9 yrs old, finally went back to the father she hadn't seen since she was just a baby.

It didn't stop there.

The Hodgins waged war.  As far as they were concerned, S was their daughter and JM had no right to take her back.  Never mind they were not the child's legal parents and at this point were nothing more than fosters.  Why CPS didn't step in and remove the little girl when the adoption was overturned is a mystery.  I suppose it's all moot at this point seeing that CPS finally stepped in and forced them to do what was right.  

The Hodgins didn't stop.  They set up Facebook pages, charity drives.  Raising money in an attempt to challenge CPS's and the court's decision to place S back with her family.  They paint JM as a "violent career criminal" who should have no rights to his daughter.  They tout how great their home and family are and how they're so much better because of what S had while in their care.

Getting a feeling of de ja vu yet?

Initially, most of the Hodgin supporters were friends and family to the failed foster/adopters.  But some new supporters started flooding in.  Familiar faces to those of us who battled for the basic human rights of Little Miss Veronica Brown.  Trio Solutions, Kendall Sykes, Bonnie Cleaveland, Jessica Munday and many others.  The big hitters who helped manipulate the courts and public opinion on the Veronica Brown case and had her successfully stolen from her father and placed into a forced adoption with her kidnappers, Matt and Melanie Capobianco.  

With their help, many were led to believe that JM was this violent ex con who had no business raising a child.  And to throw back into our faces, citing that it was detrimental to tear a child of that age from the only people she knew and remembered to make her live with strangers.  Yet they had no problem whatsoever supporting tearing Veronica from the only people she knew and remembered and placing her with strangers.

Of course, it should be no surprise that these people support another forced adoption.  They refer to the Hodgins as her "adoptive parents" (which is untrue since the adoption was overturned several years ago) and try to pull public sympathy.  I don't doubt that this whole mess was hard as hell for S.  No doubt the Hodgins filled her head with lies about her family abandoning her or that her father was some dangerous criminal.  They sure like to make it sound that way.  

One has to wonder why the SC heavy hitters of the VB case are supporting this?  What is the goal?  Does this mean there was more to Veronica's case than her Native heritage?  Was the focus on ICWA just a smoke screen?  It makes me think that this is bigger than one case of a Cherokee child.  Is there some darker motive of this group, a motive that makes parental rights more and more fragile.  This group managed to twist a law and make it so a father who "never had custody" of his child (who was placed at birth, mind you) had no legal standing to assert his rights.  They managed to twist the laws so the two years VB was in her father's care did not count.  

So what will be the twist in the law for JM and his daughter S?  You can't tell me there isn't more to this than just a case of failed foster parents against the biological family.  Not with all the people involved helping the Hodgins.  It seems peculiar that all those involved with tearing VB from her father's care are now involved with this.  First it was adopters against the Cherokee Nation.  Now it's a foster family against the biological family.  Something stinks.  Something stinks bad.  

Yesterday, a court granted the Hodgins standing in the case and they are attempting to have the original ruling vacated and S returned to their care.  Another hearing was scheduled in May, but the judge made it pretty clear that the original decision would stand unless something came up.  JM is still under CPS's watch and will be for another couple of months.  So far so good.  And TN CPS was at the most recent hearing AGAINST the Hodgins.  What does that tell you?  

Part of me is confident that this will be over in May and the Hodgins will be sent back to their precious farm with their tail between their legs, but another part of me worries.  We all had confidence that Dusten Brown would win against the Capobiancos and they managed to steal Veronica from him.  With Trio, Munday, Sykes and so many others batting for the Hodgins, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.  Something is in the works.  This group has a primary goal and Veronica Brown was just the beginning.