Judge orders couple not to sell baby
An Arizona couple believed to be in Utah to illegally sell their child -- which may as yet be unborn -- have been ordered by a Utah judge not to go through with the sale.
In a child protection order signed by 3rd District Judge Terry Christiansen, the parents, Alison and Gary Stuckey, are ordered to appear in his West Jordan courtroom at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The judge gave custody of the child to Utah Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) and has ordered any doctors, nurses or health care workers with knowledge of the child to contact DCFS.
The child protection order, issued Friday, was based on information provided by Salt Lake City attorney Wesley Hutchins, who represents a Mesa, Ariz., foster couple who are in the process of adopting three other children, ages 12, 8 and 5, born to Alison Stuckey.
According to Hutchins' court petition, Alison Stuckey previously came to Utah and illegally sold a child born Jan. 1, 2007, for $6,000.
Alison Stuckey, who was eight months pregnant and about to go into labor, recently traveled to Utah with her husband, and the child "may have been born within the last few days, or will be [born] in the very near future," according to the petition.
Three months ago, the foster couple learned Alison Stuckey was again pregnant, spoke to her at the motel where she was living and offered to keep her new baby, as well as her other three children, the petition states.
Stuckey
reportedly said she would "love" for the couple to keep her new child, "but she really needs the money [and] she had located an attorney in Salt Lake City who will give her $6,000 when she turns the baby over to him," according to the petition.
Hutchins believes the Stuckeys are now in Utah, due to statements made April 30 in the lobby of an Arizona juvenile court at the time of the termination of Gary Stuckey's parental rights, the petition states.
Stuckey's mother came to court that day to let the lawyers know the Stuckeys would not be coming to court because they had left for Utah, the petition states.
Hutchins on Saturday said he is not releasing the names of the foster couple for their protection.
According to the petition, the Stuckeys are believed to be homeless and have lived in various locations in Arizona. Alison Stuckey's parents have written letters to the court in Arizona requesting that their grandchildren "never be returned to their daughter and her husband due to drug abuse and neglect and physical abuse these children have endured," according to the petition.
Couples that go into adoption sometimes pay an ungodly amount of money. It is obscene the amount to give a child a home. Adoptive couples pay medical expenses and who knows what. It can be very expensive. This couple could of gone to a legitimate attorney and had medical expenses paid for. The medical alone is probably over 6,000 if you don't have insurance. They did a black market deal to sell their children. I honestly the baby and siblings go to the grandparents as these people if left to their own devices are going to try and sell the kids to someone else. Their children need to be with someone else.
Mystery Deepens~
- blondekosmic15
on May. 11, 2010 at 4:42 AM