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.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Monday, April 21, 2014
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!
-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!
Sunday, April 6, 2014
The Trio Conspiracy
Time to put on your tin foil hats, peeps. We're about to take a little trip down the rabbit hole....
In my previous entry, I mentioned the return of some old foes in this newest case of "we want her more" adoption horror tales. The Hodgin family gained the support of Bonnie Cleaveland, Jessica Munday and Trio Solutions and....drum roll folks.....none other than the kidnapping Capobianco herself, Melanie C. More familiar faces have started to appear. Brad Caricofe, Dev Brown, Kendall Sykes and many others known for their venomous character assassination campaign against Dusten Brown and his daughter Veronica. Even some of their less intelligent groupies have appeared here and there in this newest war against a biological family having the right to raise their child.
But the question remains.....WHY? What do these folks hope to accomplish?
Melanie Capobianco's involvement came to light via a psychologist report. Numerous psychologists submitted reports to TN courts regarding how horrible and detrimental S's removal was from her foster family. Interestingly enough, the vast majority of those who submitted these reports are from South Carolina. And none of the ones out of SC had even interviewed the child in question. But why are the Capobiancos involved again? Why are all of these folks involved?
Trio hooked onto the Hodgins and got their over-sized mouth-piece, Munday, to do the talking (as usual). The media reports so far are only reporting what Trio has been releasing. So once again, just like with Dusten and Veronica's plight, the public is only getting a one sided view of the situation.
One has to wonder. What does this case mean for them? What was the primary goal with Veronica's case? Was their seek and destroy mission on Dusten and Veronica a way to open the door so the government and white infertiles could trample on Native sovereignty? Is this newest crusade a way to give foster parents some leverage and the ability to use private adoption laws for foster children even when it goes against CPS rules? A way to re-write the rules when it comes to who they view is a fit parent? Will this mean others with tarnished pasts be targeted next?
As it stands now, I'm seeing a terrifying future if this group continues. We are dealing with dangerous individuals who will stop at nothing to take a child - any child - if someone else feels they "want them more" or "can provide better". Trio, Munday, the Capobiancos and all the others succeeded in kidnapping Veronica and now they are working to help another couple kidnap another child. Entitlement at its finest right here.
Hold your babies and children tight, peeps. It's open market on our kids.
In my previous entry, I mentioned the return of some old foes in this newest case of "we want her more" adoption horror tales. The Hodgin family gained the support of Bonnie Cleaveland, Jessica Munday and Trio Solutions and....drum roll folks.....none other than the kidnapping Capobianco herself, Melanie C. More familiar faces have started to appear. Brad Caricofe, Dev Brown, Kendall Sykes and many others known for their venomous character assassination campaign against Dusten Brown and his daughter Veronica. Even some of their less intelligent groupies have appeared here and there in this newest war against a biological family having the right to raise their child.
But the question remains.....WHY? What do these folks hope to accomplish?
Melanie Capobianco's involvement came to light via a psychologist report. Numerous psychologists submitted reports to TN courts regarding how horrible and detrimental S's removal was from her foster family. Interestingly enough, the vast majority of those who submitted these reports are from South Carolina. And none of the ones out of SC had even interviewed the child in question. But why are the Capobiancos involved again? Why are all of these folks involved?
Trio hooked onto the Hodgins and got their over-sized mouth-piece, Munday, to do the talking (as usual). The media reports so far are only reporting what Trio has been releasing. So once again, just like with Dusten and Veronica's plight, the public is only getting a one sided view of the situation.
One has to wonder. What does this case mean for them? What was the primary goal with Veronica's case? Was their seek and destroy mission on Dusten and Veronica a way to open the door so the government and white infertiles could trample on Native sovereignty? Is this newest crusade a way to give foster parents some leverage and the ability to use private adoption laws for foster children even when it goes against CPS rules? A way to re-write the rules when it comes to who they view is a fit parent? Will this mean others with tarnished pasts be targeted next?
As it stands now, I'm seeing a terrifying future if this group continues. We are dealing with dangerous individuals who will stop at nothing to take a child - any child - if someone else feels they "want them more" or "can provide better". Trio, Munday, the Capobiancos and all the others succeeded in kidnapping Veronica and now they are working to help another couple kidnap another child. Entitlement at its finest right here.
Hold your babies and children tight, peeps. It's open market on our kids.
Thursday, April 3, 2014
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.
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.
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