MORE UPDATES on Baby Veronica and the Evil Christie Maldonado

Christie Maldonado, the evil mastermind, perpetuator and non-stop bitter bitch in the case of Baby Veronica is NOW suing the federal government to take down the IWCA as unconstitutional

The public, media and adoption reformists focused the blame between Dusten Brown (who was labeled a dead beat dad who signed his rights away) and Matt and Melanie Capobianco, rightly accused of dragging the Baby Veronica case on and on and not just simply letting the child be with her father who loved her, wanted her and was perfectly capable of raising her...

Yet, throughout it all Christie Maldonado, Veronica's mother, was spared the controversy, barely ever mentioned in the media except as “the natural mother.” She was protected and spared all blame and culpability, unjustifiably in my sole opinion. She is the unspoken of elephant in the middle of this fiasco that the public, the media and even we in adoption reform have left unscathed. And it is Christie Maldonado, Baby Veronica's natural mother, in my opinion who is THE most culpable person in this debacle

The Capobiancos were dead wrong, but they never would have been in the picture, much less able to succeed had it not been for the choices made and reaffirmed every step of the way by Christie Maldinado. Christie chose the Capobiancos, and not just encouraged them, she insisted that they never give up relentlessly, giving them justification personally and publicly. With her on their side, they were not taking a child away form her father, they were upholding the never wavering wishes of the child's mother. 

The Capbiancos motivation was to have a baby girl.  Christie’s motivation was to USE them to keep her child from the child's father. Pure evil.

It was Christie, the natural mother, who set the entire fiasco in motion. It was she and she alone who decided on adoption of a child who had a father. She alone put the whole adoption plan in motion through deceit and less than honest and open communication or informed consent to Dusten. She disregarded him from the start and then blamed him for not being involved. She was less than honest in her intent, leading Dusten to believe he was signing custody over to her, without revealing her intent to place the child one she had him sign off on his rights. She tricked him!!  This was an evil and immoral thing to do and showed from the start of the process her lack of ability to put the needs of her child over her anger at this man she created this innocent baby with.




Christie sent Dusten a text message asking if he would rather pay child support or relinquish his parental rights. He responded via text message that he relinquished his rights, not ever hearing one word about any plan for adoption, he assumed he was allowing Christie to have sole custody, as opposed to joint custody.

Dusten was totally unaware that months prior to the baby's birth, Christie had begun to work with an adoption attorney to place the child with Matt and Melanie Capobianco of South Carolina. Although Oklahoma law requires that when the case involves a child of Indian decent, the tribe be notified, Maldonado's attorney misspelled Brown's name and provided an incorrect date of birth, so the tribe was not put on notice of the proposed adoption. After receiving permission from Oklahoma authorities, based in part on the identification of the child as Hispanic instead of Native American, the Capobiancos took the child to South Carolina.

Christie attended every court proceeding aligned with and supported the Capobiancos, and went as far as telling "the state court that she would nullify her consent to the child’s adoption if Veronica were not to live with the Capobiancos." 

Dale Dove, the attorney who represented Christie for the Supreme Court proceedings said, “This is a case that promotes the rights and choices of the birth mother who’s taking the lion’s share of the burden. I am thrilled that they’ve decided it in a way that protects the adoption plans of birth mothers.”

Even those of us within the adoption community who are as far as we can be philosophically from the pro-adoptionists and the Industry … were so focused on solely blaming the Capobiancos and so wont to ever see a birthmother as anything but the wounded party - as she too often is - that we unintentionally have painted a not well-intentioned, innocent, coerced mother with the same brush we use for those whose vulnerabilities are exploited by the adoption machine.

Christie Maldonado, of all people, could have used whatever leverage she had to help resolve this case through a mediated open adoption or at the very least a demand for visitation, Instead she - like the Capobiancos and the law - saw the child as a piece of merchandise to dispute ownership of.  

She of all people, as a MOTHER, should have and could have fought for her CHILD's best interest over that of all the adults. Instead she orchestrated the battle and acted throughout to destroy the possibility of a reunification of a child and her kin, her heritage and a father who loved and wanted her, acting like far too many divorcing couples who use children as weapons in a perceived war.  She was angry mother in a divorce and she used the Capobiancos to do HER dirty work of taking her child from Dusten!  And she used the Capobiancos to do her dirty for her and pay all the legal fees.  

It is hard for me to say these things – to point a finger of blame at a “sister” birthmother who “lost” a child to adoption, but no generalizations can be made about any group of people. There are good and bad in every race, religion and there are good and bad adoptive parents and good and bad birth parents.

I recognize and award adoptive parents who do the right thing in order to encourage more to do so. And I recognize when a mother does the WRONG thing, as is the case here. I am able to admit that there are some mothers who are incapable of making safe, healthy choices for the well being of their children, often because of substance abuse or mental illness. I encourage extended family care in such cases, but to ignore the reality and claim or believe ALL mothers and fathers should have custody of their children, is dogmatic and inherently wrong and makes anyone saying it lose all credibility and paints adoption reformers as stringent anti-adoptionists who defend mothers right or wrong.

Loving, caring parents who are capable should maintain their rights and that was the case here with Dusten Brown. Dusten was duped by Veronica’s mother who put her anger above her child’s best interested and insisted she be raised by strangers rather than her own blood kin. And that started and ended this case for Veronica. It was what encouraged the Capobiancos to continue to pursue no matter what and influenced all the court decisions.

Where was court ordered mediation, as is done in divorces and custody battles? Where was a guardian ad litem to represent the child's interest throughout this or any disputed adoption? Where was court ordered visitation or slow transition for any of the transfers of this innocent, tiny human being tossed about like a ship in a storm, hither and yon, calling different sets of people Mommy and Daddy so many times in her young life, and suffering abandonment upon abandonment? Will she ever be able to trust again? Where were her interests in any of this?

Christie, mother of two other children, orchestrated this cruel circus every step of the way from her very first deceit to Dusten, to choosing the Capobiancos, standing by them to this day, and publically slandering her child’s father. I say shame on Christie and some stones should be cast where they need to be.  Bad mother of year award goes to Christie Maldonado for putting her anger before the best interest of her child, for deceiving and berating her child's father, and now, not satisfied with ruining her daughter's life, taking her from her loving father and sister and grandparents, she is trying to remove protection for all native American children!

UPDATE 7/28: "Feminists" - women who have NEVER supported mothers in crisis who are pressured and coerced to relinquish their children or have them taken wrongfully... women who have never supported adoptee equality, are now supporting this BE-ATCH, Christie Maldonado who acted in ways that are counter the the well-being of Veronica and her two other children.  These are people who BLINDLY support any mother who fights a father over custody.

UPDATE 7/28: The Notorious "Fat Lady" has yet to utter her swan song....HOPE remains fro veronica and her RIGHTFUL Blood Kin FAMILY as the case goes BACK TO COURT!!