Posted on 12/04/2012 12:24:52 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
A Texas man is battling for custody of his first-born daughter after his wife successfully gave her up for adoption without telling him - to a family who now refuses to return the girl.
Terry Achane, 31, a drill instructor in South Carolina, says it was just days after he left his pregnant wife for his new job out of state that she quietly signed over their unborn baby to a family of seven in Utah.
His newborn baby, whom he had wanted to name Teleah, was given to Jared and Kristi Frei, who now say the girl is theirs and won't give her back without a fight.
Mr Achane says that he and his wife, Tira Bland, were having marital problems not long after learning she was pregnant in 2010, leading to her decision and his now spiraling struggle today despite a judge ordering the girl returned to him last October.
The now ex-husband says Ms Bland had suggested having an abortion or giving their child up for adoption - fearing she would end up as a single mother - but he said no, encouraging their daughter's birth.
It was just months later in February of 2011 that Mr Achane found himself sent to Fort Jackson in South Carolina for work, believing he’d leave and come back a new dad.
Ten days after his move, however, his wife went gave birth to a premature baby and signed away their child before cutting all contact with her husband.
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I wish FreeRepublic had ‘Like’ buttons. I agree, this father has always wanted the baby, and she should never have Ben taken from him!
When you’re in a hole - STOP DIGGING.
This latest reply does nothing to help alleviate your remarks in post 5.
That child was sold or given by her mother to an “adoption” agency that is obviously dabbling in quasi-legal human trafficking-that is kidnapping. The mother of the child likely did the deed for money and to get back at her soldier-husband for some slight, and I think she ought to do hard time for fraud-someoner paid cold hard cash for that baby-child theft and selling isn’t free.
The couple adopting the child are apparently trying to play a religion card to keep the child, even though they knew the adoption was bogus from the gitgo-they should shut up and give the kid back NOW, not in 60 days as ordered, or be arrested for being a party to a child abduction.
That human trafficking syndicate posing as an “adoption agency” should be closed and the owners jailed.
As soon as the little girl is returned to her father, I hope he sues the bogus adoptive couple, the agency, and especially his selfish ex-wife. Poor man...
“It is not legally yours until all rights are signed off.”
Or forcibly removed by court order.
We adopted two, in May of this year, 2 fathers, one mother. One father signed off, one father ignored the whole procedure after being notified repeatedly.
The mother showed up at two hearings and missed three, she was in jail during one of them. The judge read her criminal and drug addiction history and removed her rights.
“Two new additions to our family” - (with pictures):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2886877/posts
there are laws to protect military on deployment for just such events.
In this case
1. The court would have ordered paternity FIRST.
2. This is no different than picking a random child and literally selling them for adoption. Rember you can’t sell children but you do have to pay for lawyer fees, agency fees, and “living expenses” of the mother.
Remarkably, in its history the NYT has printed about a dozen articles with the words "contumely," "Russell" and "Baker." (And not all of them by Russell Baker.)
Here’s another one:
Hey - stop right there!
If anyone dares to call me ContumaciousTex, I’ll bop him right in the nose. hrrrumpphh!
;>D
That child was sold or given by her mother to an “adoption” agency that is obviously dabbling in quasi-legal human trafficking-that is kidnapping. The mother of the child likely did the deed for money and to get back at her soldier-husband for some slight, and I think she ought to do hard time for fraud-someoner paid cold hard cash for that baby-child theft and selling isn’t free.
The couple adopting the child are apparently trying to play a religion card to keep the child, even though they knew the adoption was bogus from the gitgo-they should shut up and give the kid back NOW, not in 60 days as ordered, or be arrested for being a party to a child abduction.
That human trafficking syndicate posing as an “adoption agency” should be closed and the owners jailed.
As soon as the little girl is returned to her father, I hope he sues the bogus adoptive couple, the agency, and especially his selfish ex-wife. Poor man...
How could she have LEGALLY signed over the child, without his signature? It could be done, if they weren’t married, but marriage should confer some sort of protection for the spouse who is not making this decision. She could have gotten an abortion without his say in the matter, but once that baby was born, it was legally HIS, as well as hers.
Oops-sorry for the double post...
,I’ve heard that the adoption laws are less kind to fathers in some states, but this seems just totally ridiculous-the woman prpobably went to Utah to have the kid where her husband wouldn’t know about the birth, so she could sell/give away the kid to spite him, but is it legal for the “agency” to deceive and hide the facts from a child’s legal and biological father in Utah?
,I’ve heard that the adoption laws are less kind to fathers in some states, but this seems just totally ridiculous-the woman probably went to Utah to have the kid where her husband wouldn’t know about the birth, so she could sell/give away the kid to spite him, but is it legal for the “agency” to deceive and hide the facts from a child’s legal and biological father in Utah?
Hi, Kristi.
In advance, yet-I give up...
By your thought processes, children placed in foster care at birth and spend the first year and a half or longer in the care of a guardian must be adopted by that guardian, or suffer dire consequences. Or, children placed in foster care in the first three to five years of life, and who move from one foster-care home to another WILL face dire consequences. Unfortunately, there is little evidence that supports your contention.
So the courts signed you off! LoL
“the childs rights”
to stay with the kidnappers?? (as far as I am concerned)
you seriously think the child would make a conscient choice to stay with non-family?
We have a good friend in a Central American who just died from cancer, leaving 4 children, ages 18, 15, 8 & 5, plus an older married daughter. We looked into adopting the children, but we told that the US adoption agency fees would be $10,000 to $15,000 (I was afraid to ask if that was for the whole family, or per child) plus $5,000 for legal fees in the Central American country.
A bit more checking revealed that the adoptive parents can be no more that 45 years older than the child. That ended our quest.
The Adoption Industry, bolstered by The Hague Adoption Convention, seems to hinder, rather than facilitate the process.
(the two youngest children will live with their oldest sister. We will do what we can for the older two, plus they have a very good local church.)
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