Indian groups planning to sue over baby Veronica adoption case

Indian groups planning to sue over baby Veronica adoption case | GoUpstate.com:

COLUMBIA — Several American Indian groups said Monday they are preparing to sue over a court's decision to allow the adoption of a girl of Cherokee heritage by a Charleston-area couple, saying recent court rulings don't take the girl's best interest into account.
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Note: The Court's NEVER take a child's "best interest" into account and Federal mandates are NEVER followed. It's all about Money!

13-year-old gang raped while men cheer, foster home under investigation

13-year-old gang raped while men cheer, foster home under investigation:

In a disturbing story out of Austin, TX, a 13-year-old girl was raped by as many as ten men many of whom videotaped the assaults and cheered.

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Chill E.B. - Prove It

Millions of kids and adults are told they're mentally ill and that mental disorders like ADHD or Bi-polar are the same thing as having a medical condition like diabetes or cancer. I've got one thing to say to those pushing this pharmaceutical agenda: Prove it!

Therapists ponder ‘what’s best for Veronica’

Therapists ponder ‘what’s best for Veronica’ – The Post and Courier:

Note: What's best for Veronica? Leave her with her REAL Family!

Five parents in two states fighting in the highest courts in the land over who will raise one 3-year-old child. Even the Cherokee Nation has gotten involved in the case.

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Baby Veronica: Another side to the story

Local View: Baby Veronica: Another side to the story : Opinion:

On the surface, it appears from reading the Journal Star on July 18 that after a long legal ordeal, Baby Veronica is back where she belongs -- with the Capobiancos, the adoptive parents her birth mother, Christy Maldonado, chose for her.

But the Associated Press story and Maldonado’s op-ed piece, though they tug at our heart strings, tell only a small part of the story. They portray Veronica’s father, Dusten Brown, who fought to gain custody of her and raised her for the past two years, as a deadbeat dad. They represent his tribe, the Cherokee Nation, as an opportunistic entity and the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) as an unwarranted government intrusion into the private decision of a birth mother.

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Inseparable Sisters: Adoption Order Exacts Toll on Baby Veronica's Family

Inseparable Sisters: Adoption Order Exacts Toll on Baby Veronica's Family - ICTMN.com:

Throughout the bitter dispute surroundingAdoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, there have been a pair of anxious eyes watching as events unfolded in the last year, helpless to do anything about it.

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'Human and Constitutional Rights' Violated in Baby Veronica Case

Leonhard: 'Human and Constitutional Rights' Violated in Baby Veronica Case - ICTMN.com:

Brent Leonhard, an attorney for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon, was asked by Indian Country Today Media Network to weigh in on the controversy over the South Carolina Supreme Court ruling to remove three-year-old Veronica Brown from her biological father and give her to an adoptive couple. ICTMN previously featured Leonhard’s work in astory about the Violence Against Women Act. —Gale Courey Toensing

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