clarepa

Just a Guy.......... I can only pray that you really are just a guy and not a parent because that would be just too scary. There is no possible way in Gods green earth that living with kidnappers, theives and liars is in this child's best interest. Do you also argue that a bank robber shouldn't go to jail if he has a fourteen month old because the child would be traumatized? This child is not a piece of property. She has every right to be with her own family who have always loved her and (unlike the people who have her now) have always respected the law in so far as her custody is concerned-- perhaps too much. The people currently holding the baby need to be held accountable for their actions by the courts. They do not deserve to be rewarded for ignoring her rights by gaining her custody.

I am astounded at the people saying the father should just move on with his life. He is her father. He has a responsibility to raise her and has made every effort to do that since long before she was born. His daughter has been a victim of kidnapping; not "something similar to kidnapping" but people literally lied to him and hid the child from him then took her out of state. The people who have her do not deserve to be called adoptive parents because they are neither. She is not and will not be adopted; not legally and certainly not ethically. Her father and grandparents have a good home ready for her. As a parent I cannot believe that anyone wants a devoted father to just disappear. Whoever they are, they certainly are not thinking of her. Children do not benefit from parental abandonment. I hope the people who do want the father to just give up are at least not parents themselves. Certainly, if they were they would have to apply the same standard to themselves. How many people out there would just accept this. If your newborn was smuggled out of the hospital and the state and it took a year for the police and the courts to catch up with the kidnappers would you just quietly walk away. If the people had really nice Christmas pictures of themselves with YOUR child and a nice nursery and a puppy? Can any of you honestly say you would just walk away and meekly accept the vague promise of an "open" adoption from people who you have every reason to doubt? The child is today a little over fourteen months old, half the age "Baby Jessica" (Anna Schmidt) was when she was returned to her parents (in 1993). She has stated she has no memory of the people who kept her from her parents for so long and has no interest in contacting them. Emma will also eventually grow up! Imagine her learning that the people raising her today deliberately kept her from her father! If they have any sense of right and wrong at all they will reunite Emma with her father, apologize to both of them and hope to God they avoid prosecution, though honestly I doubt anyone will place a child with them in future, knowing the contempt they have for natural families.