She said goodbye to Brown and her biological grandparents. Veronica left the Tahlequah home where she had been staying recently. Oklahoma’s top court had cleared the way earlier in the day for the curly-haired girl to head back to the South Carolina, where she spent the first 27 months of her life. Brown appealed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court because two Oklahoma courts have certified the South Carolina order.īrown also is facing extradition to South Carolina to face a charge of custodial interference for refusing to hand over the girl.īrown’s family returned Veronica to the Capobiancos via Cherokee police Monday evening: Supreme Court then ruled that the Indian Child Welfare Act does not apply to the case.Ī South Carolina court then finalized the adoption to the Capobiancos and ordered Brown to hand Veronica over. Her father claims federal law favors his keeping the child and won custody when she was 2.
Veronica’s birth mother, who is not Native American, was pregnant when she put the girl up for adoption baby Veronica began living with the Capobiancos shortly after her birth.
The dispute has raised questions about jurisdictions, tribal sovereignty and a federal law meant to help keep Native American tribes together. Supreme Court as well as courts in Oklahoma and South Carolina have sided with the Capobiancos: Veronica, 4, had been living with her biological father, Dusten Brown, for the past two years. The Cherokee child known as Baby Veronica, who is at the center of a far-reaching legal dispute over Native American law, has been returned to her adoptive parents, Matt and Melanie Capobianco. Her biological father, a Cherokee, had claimed custody based on the Indian Child Welfare Act. Four-year-old Veronica returned to her adoptive parents Monday.
0 kommentar(er)
