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So... Eventually... They decided to adopt.
Enter a woman named Christy Maldonado.
She lives about a thousand miles away.
She's in her 20s, already has a couple kids.
The Capo Biancos get the baby and they name her Veronica.
This is Matt and Melanie Capobianco.
But you were happy to do whatever she told you to do because she's just the poster child for a proud father, you know?
But it's just gone as wrong as it could have possibly gone.
This is basically how it unfolded on TV news.
What happened is when Veronica was two, her biological dad turned up seemingly out of nowhere.
And according to these clips, hadn't been around for two years, had abandoned the child, and now he's asking for custody.
And the court is making them stand by and just let it happen.
Well, it's mainly because of this law.