Sold in Oklahoma: Second Indian Infant Adopted to South Carolina

By Suzette Brewer August 13, 2013
As Dusten Brown posted bail in a Sequoyah County, Oklahoma courtroom yesterday afternoon on a federal  warrant for his arrest for "custodial interference"  in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, Indian Country  Today Media Network has learned that yet another  Indian child from Oklahoma has been illegally placed  for adoption in South Carolina.
Read more at https://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/13/sold-oklahoma-second-indian-infant-adopted-south-carolina-150856

 

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COMMENT:

nitrat

I am a retired child welfare worker & supervisor in South Carolina. I am so upset by the railroading of Dusten Brown, particularly since the case was returned from the US supreme court.
That the SC supreme court ordered the SC Circuit family court to terminate his parental rights concurrent with approving adoption by the Boeing couple is PROOF that there is no evidence that Brown's parental rights had been terminated by himself (a frequent meme by the Boeing couple - I call them the Boeing couple because I believe his connection to Boeing is the reason that the Low Country SC media has been so prejudiced in this case.) or any court any where.
This is so different from how TPRs are handled when SCDSS has custody of a child and Dusten Brown is just as entitled to a REAL TPR hearing as anyone who loses a child due to abuse or neglect.  The SC supreme court has denied that.
In my opinion, Brown's attorney made a mistake in not fighting this case on the basis of the lack of legal TPR.  There was a case in the mid-west in the 90s that is very similar in many aspects - except the applicability of ICWA - to this case.  The child was returned to the bio father in that case and the precedent was established that the child of a parent who has not been legally TPRed cannot be adopted.
This child needs to be with the biological parent who wants her, not the Boeing baby buyers.

BTW, there is widespread disregard of ICPC.  I am aware of Texas willy nilly sending children to SC to be adopted and SCDSS never knowing about it until they get reports of the child being abused/neglected by the adoptive placement.
Private adoption COMPANIES are bad for children.

I see this adoption attorney Godwin is in Greenville, SC.  That is where the adoption company that was bringing Texas kids to SC was located (before my retirement). The Greenville area is the hotbed for social conservative/Christian Right movements in SC.