(NPR) Less than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court sent an unusually messy child custody case back to the lower courts, South Carolina’s Supreme Court has ruled to end the long-running saga of Baby Veronica, Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl.
The lower court ordered on Wednesday that the adoption of 3-year-old Veronica by Matt and Melanie Capobianco, who are white, be finalized and for custody to be transferred from her biological father, Dusten Brown, to the Capobiancos, as NPR’s Nina Totenberg reported for our Newscast unit and our colleagues at .
The order comes after the U.S. Supreme Court that the same lower court incorrectly interpreted the Indian Child Welfare Act, also known as ICWA, by granting custody to Brown, a registered member of the Cherokee Nation, in 2011.
