Remember Who They Are

Aubrey Lowery was 8 months old when a court ordered South Carolina couple Mark and Mary Boepple to turn her over to her parents who lived in Illinois.  The Boepples challenged the ruling and the South Carolina supreme court ruled that the child be returned to them.  The parents fought, citing lack of jurisdiction, but South Carolina ram rodded the adoption through and demanded her immediate return to the kidnappers.  The Boepples went to Illinois and stalked the parents in an effort to snatch Aubrey back.  When an Illinois court ruled they did not have jurisdiction to intervene, the parents were forced to hand Aubrey over to her kidnappers when she was 2 yrs old and she has since been slapped with the fake name of Porter Boepple. 

James Elliott Rossler was born May 2015 in Alabama.  His mother, Kim Rossler, had started an adoption plan during her pregnancy but as the due date came closer, became less and less certain of her plan to relinquish.  She told those involved that she no longer wished to proceed with the adoption.  What she didn't know was that the forms she signed before baby Rossler's birth were legally binding and three weeks after his birth, Kate Sharp lied to get a court order demanding his immediate transfer to her custody.  Kim is still currently fighting to get her son back.  

Veronica Brown was born Sept 2009 to Christinna Maldonado and Dusten Brown, both of Oklahoma.  Maldonado had started an adoption plan while pregnant, unbeknownst to Brown.  Shortly after Veronica's birth she'd been whisked away to South Carolina with Matthew Capobianco and Melanie Duncan Capobianco.  Brown contested the proposed adoption and in 2011 was awarded custody by the South Carolina courts.  The Capobiancos fought back and in 2013 the United States Supreme Court ruled in their favor.  South Carolina ram-rodded the adoption through a short time after and demanded her turnover to the Capobiancos.  Brown continued to fight, but ultimately the courts in Oklahoma sided with the illegal South Carolina adoption order.  A week after her 4th birthday, an unwilling Veronica was handed over to her kidnappers. 

Maddy Spurlock was removed from Mary Spurlock's care shortly after birth due to drug use.  The county handling her dependency case placed her with foster parents Brian and Kelly Anderson to aid in possible reunification efforts with Spurlock.  The Andersons interfered with reunification efforts and eventually they fell through.  When the Andersons realized that Maddy would be going to next of kin in another state (Spurlock's sister, who just happened to also have custody of one of Spurlock's other children), they started manipulating her mother to get get her on their side and agree to an adoption.  They soon got her on their side and when Maddy was removed to be placed with the sister out of state, the Andersons and Spurlock went to a neighboring county to get an adoption order (they claimed private adoption placement and even claimed they still had custody even tho they did not).  The county of jurisdiction, Allen County, fought back and got the adoption order reversed.  However the Andersons and Spurlock worked to get the high courts to reverse their original ruling and in Dec 2016, after being with her aunt and brother for six, seven months, Maddy was returned to the kidnappers and got a quickie adoption.  Maddy's case is still being fought.


These are just a handful of cases.  There are so many more out there.

Veronica Brown's Kidnapping - Four Years Later

As fall rolls in, this September also marks the four year anniversary of Veronica Brown's forced removal from her father and family.  Forced to live with strangers she had no memory of, slapped with a fake name and a fake birth certificate that states those strangers gave birth to her.  Forced to remain with them and encouraged to call them Mom and Dad even though they were complete strangers to her and possibly even seen as monsters to her then four year old mind.

As the years have passed, her case, her face and her name have been lost into obscurity.  As far as the general public is concerned, her case is over and time to move on.  For those within the adoption community, her name and face represent everything that is wrong with current infant adoption practices in the United States.  It showed the world that the laws were so twisted against fathers that complete strangers could kidnap a 4 yr old child from her family and the courts would back them up.  For those in support of the kidnappers, Matthew and Melanie Capobianco, they see no issue with how her case played out.  They see no issue with tearing a 4 yr old child from her family to be sent off with strangers.  They see nothing wrong with the adoption laws. 

Recently, it was finally revealed that the Capobiancos had indeed adopted another child.  This was the newborn they had pictured Ronnie with mere months after kidnapping her.  Rumors had been rumbling in those early months that they'd adopted another child, but many of their supporters claimed the newborn was actually a relative's child.  There'd also been a baby registry with Target under the Capobianco's name.  Again, it was dismissed.  

Well, the rumors were actually true.  The newborn Ronnie was pictured with was actually the other child they adopted.  Let that sink in.  They were in the process of adopting another child while they were actively trying to steal Veronica.  I cannot wrap my brain around any of that.  To me, it just proved without any shadow of a doubt that they were monsters.  They were about to get their little loyal adoptling and yet they were still hell bent on stealing away a 4 yr old child from all she knew and loved.

How does that not scream MONSTERS?

It makes me wonder how things will play out as both Veronica and the Capobianco's daughter grow up.  While I cannot vouch for the validity of what I have heard, rumors still float around that Veronica still calls Dusten "Dad" (kidnappers were pushing her to call him by name).  There have also been whispers that she still asks to go home.  Will Matt and Melanie's daughter push her into compliance?  Will she dismiss Veronica's longing to go back to her family?  Or will she question her own adoption when Veronica tells her how she was stolen from her parents and grandparents?  Will it be revealed that their daughter's adoption was nothing more than a replacement should they have lost their case to Veronica's Dad? Will the Capobiancos find themselves face to face with their wrath and questions and unable to bullshit their way out of it?  

I hope so.  I hope Veronica turns on them and turns their daughter against them.  It's only a matter of time before she does.  It's what they deserve after what they've done.  If you say that makes me a shitty person, so be it.