A custody dispute between a 2-year-old girl's adoptive parents on James Island and her biological father in Oklahoma heads to the state's high court on April 17.
The state Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next month in the custody dispute between a 2-year-old girl's adoptive parents on James Island and her biological father in Oklahoma.
The public cannot follow along as the state Supreme Court considers an emotional custody dispute over a 2-year-old girl, which pits her adoptive parents on James Island against her biological father in Oklahoma.
Scores of local residents and others came out to on Saturday to show their support for Matt and Melanie Capobianco, who to had return their 2-year-old adoptive daughter, Veronica, to her biological father. they have appealed a judge's ruling in the case,
A couple addressed a crowd from a makeshift stage at Colonial Lake on Saturday night, while 29 luminarias lit the still water behind them -- one for each day since they last saw their 2-year-old adoptive daughter.
A young couple drove more than 1,000 miles from Oklahoma to Charleston from Thursday morning into Friday afternoon with a stack of "Save Veronica" posters and a tape dispenser in each of their pockets.
People who want to see a 2-year-old girl reunited with her adoptive parents on James Island gathered at Local coffee shop in West Ashley this afternoon and again at Colonial Lake this evening for a candlelight ceremony.
In three weeks, more than 20,000 people in the Lowcountry and across the nation have signed a petition seeking to return a 2-year-old girl to her adoptive parents on James Island.
In three weeks, more than 20,000 people in the Lowcountry and across the nation have signed a petition seeking to return a 2-year-old girl to her adoptive parents on James Island.
A cross-country legal battle over custody of a 2-year-old girl moves its fight next to the S.C. Supreme Court. James Island residents Matt and Melanie Capobianco hope to overturn the local court order that required them to give up their adoptive daughter, Veronica, to her biological father, a man she'd never met, on New Year's Eve.
The S.C. Supreme Court has accepted the case of a James Island couple appealing a court order that transferred their 2-year-old daughter to her biological father.
Matt and Melanie Capobianco have spoken to their 2-year-old daughter only once in the week since a stranger put her in a pickup truck and drove 1,100 miles away.
The birth mother of Veronica, a 2-year-old girl caught in a cross-country custody battle, said she chose adoption after realizing that the girl's father would support them only if she married him.
A court battle over 2-year-old Veronica began when she was just 4 months old and ended on New Year's Eve, with her in a car seat headed to Oklahoma and the adoptive parents who raised her walking away childless.
Matt and Melanie Capobianco didn't know their daughter, Veronica, had any Native American lineage when they brought her home from Oklahoma in 2009. She has never met her biological father Dustin Brown who she was handed over to on New Year's Eve due to 1
A James Island couple who raised a little girl from her birth more than two years ago were forced to deliver her to her biological father this evening because of a 1978 law that applies to Native American children.
