at least another day to prepare for this transfer. they didn t. that night, they actually had to hand veronica over to her biological father. and we actually got an interview with the family from our affiliate wciv. listen to what they had to say about that transfer. matt said when we had to do the transfer, it was like he was failing her as a father, to send her off with people that she didn t know, what she must think of us. she had in my mind a really confused look on her face which just but i ll always remember her crying after us. we had to walk out of that office and leave her there. everybody keeps saying how bad they feel for us. but she s a 2-year-old girl that got shoved in a truck and driven to oklahoma with strangers. a lot of people talking about this case. oh, my goodness. so the father, dustin brown, he
facebook, when i saw that picture. and colombia is right there to the side, where you are shows up on facebook. and it had colombia there. so i started looking it up. reporter: is this a colombian newspaper? no, facebook. facebook, on the computer. but i had a detective to check it for me. it wasn t her regular detective. it s the one that came to the shop and they checked it. and she was in colombia. i knew it all the time. but i just wanted to prove to other people that she was there. the teenager s family says they intend to sue the u.s. government agencies that mistakenly deported her to south america. iranian officials say the u.s. navy did a humanitarian act by rescuing 13 iranian sailors from pirates in the arabe ban sea. troops responded to a distress call from an iranian fishing vessel on thursday. they captured 15 pirates. the american naval men did and most of them, somalis. and freed the iranians being held captive. one year ago tomorrow, a deadly shoo
the full blessing of a judge. at the heart of all of this, a federal law that makes it illegal to break up native american families. george howell digging into this case for us. he joins us. explain how this girl s biological dad was able to do this after two years? dustin brown is the biological father and he used this law child the indian child welfare act. it s basically designed to keep indian families together, to keep them from being broken up. he is enrolled in the cherokee nation, his daughter, partially native american. so through the courts, he was able to get his daughter back from matt and melanie. as you can imagine, they didn t rell realize that this would happen a day sooner than they had predicted for it to happen. she s adorable, too. they raised her since her birth. they say this was an open adoption that. they know her biological mother. but given the court s decision, they had to basically transfer their daughter over to dustin brown. this happened,
american families. george howell digging into this case for us. he joins us. explain how this girl s biological dad was able to do this after two years? dustin brown is the biological father and he used this law child the indian child welfare act. it s basically designed to keep indian families together, to keep them from being broken up. he is enrolled in the cherokee nation, his daughter, partially native american. so through the courts, he was able to get his daughter back from matt and melanie. as you can imagine, they didn t rell realize that this would happen a day sooner than they had predicted for it to happen. she s adorable, too. they raised her since her birth. they say this was an open adoption that. they know her biological mother. but given the court s decision, they had to basically transfer their daughter over to dustin brown. this happened, again, on new year s eve. they thought it would happen new year s day. we actually have an interview with the family that wa