This Wednesday, January 16th, Jared and Kristi Freis will have to return the daughter they illegally adopted to her father Staff Sargent Terry Achane.  They have appealed a court’s ruling from January 5th of this year that they must return the child but it unlikely this will happen, ending an almost two-year nightmare for the girl’s father.

If you don’t know the story, Mr. Achane was married and expecting a child before he was sent to Fort Jackson by the U S Army to report for duty. A few days later his wife, Tira Bland, the child’s mother, flew to Utah and gave birth, cut off communication to Mr. Achane, and allowed the child to be adopted. Mr. Achane was unaware of this happening, blissfully unaware in South Carolina awaiting news of the birth of his daughter. This, of course, violated Mr. Achane’s parental rights. As soon as he became aware of what happened he contacted the Adoption Center of Choice and said he wanted his child, that the adoption was illegal. They ignored him and he filed papers stating he had never given up his rights and because of this should be given custody and have the child returned to him.

Fourth District Judge Darold McDade agreed and in December issued a 48-page ruling that among other things admonished the Freis and the Adoption Center of Choice for ignoring Mr. Achane once he asserted his parental rights. He stated that the “Freis’ had no justification for withholding Taleah” from her father.

Ms. Bland perpetrated fraud, which the Fries’ were aware of, by giving the adoption agency a false address so Mr. Achane could not assert his parental rights. Now the Fries’ are trying to smear his good name by saying he “abandoned the child and her mother”, but if he did not know where or when the child was born, and he was ordered for his job to report for duty, how did he abandon anyone.

Who knows if Horatio would say “There is something rotten in the state of Utah” but if he did there would be a lot of truth to it. Why Utah, because they have lax laws for adoption and repeatedly have denied father’s their rights, because they make it easy to steal a child from its father. Utah has become a baby mill, facilitated by the LDS, where young mothers are coerced into giving up their children. They buy and sell children but, this time they went to far. Hopefully the light being shined on this by outlets like Good Morning America and CNN will cause a change but, it is unlikely because Utah is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the Mormons and they feel they are doing “God’s work”. It is sad really that these children are being robbed of their fathers for a church’s nefarious ends.

The Fries’ claim they want what is best for the child but are in truth guided by a selfish desire to have a child. I understand their pain but they should do what is right and let this case go instead of prolonging the pain and the cases inevitable conclusion. Mr Achane has a Constitutional right that was subverted by Ms. Bland and the Utah Adoption Center of Choice who facilitated this travesty for monetary gains. Now the Center is under a corrective action plan according to the Office of Licensing for the Utah Department of Human Services and their license has not been renewed for repeated violations of adoption laws.

We will be watching Wednesday for news of the exchange and then hopefully silence about this case but, an uproar of the hundreds of others who have had their child stolen in Utah.