Neither of his parents are capable of helping to raise these children. C.M.’s mother is bed-ridden and requires a home aid to care for her and change her diapers. The babies are exposed to the cigarette smoke which is so thick that the nurses found it difficult to breathe. is depressed, has anxiety, a paranoid personality disorder, irrational anger fits, has pulled his own hair out, and has a history of being cruel to family pets - even killing them.Ĭ.M.’s father, who is very ill and has a severe heart condition, is a habitual chain-smoker at the home where the babies live.
Triplets for a single parent who is deaf is - well beyond contemplation.”Īs if his physical limitations weren’t enough, according to his sister, C.M. Triplets for a single parent would be excruciating. At the beginning of the dispute, he wrote “Triplets for a married couple is hard enough. Ironically, C.M.’s inability to care for the children was known to the surrogacy broker which profited from the arrangement.
If he was required to take psychiatric examinations, he could never have qualified.” applied to adopt a child and a home inspection was conducted, he would never have qualified to be an adoptive parent. CM’s sister later told the Court, “If C.M. There was no home visit or inquiry into C.M.’s parental fitness before he entered into the contract, as would be required for an adoption. The head nurse was so upset and concerned, a few days later she reported the situation to the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services. would be unable to care for the babies that three nurses and a doctor flew from California to Georgia to monitor their safety. The petitioner’s supplemental brief outlines how the hospital staff was so concerned that C.M. The significantly premature babies lived in the NICU for 10 weeks, but C.M. The children were taken from her and security guards made certain that she could never hold or breastfed them. The triplets were born to Melissa in February 2016. When Melissa refused, she was threatened with a lawsuit. had three male embryos transferred into Melissa’s uterus, but when all three successfully implanted, he wanted one or two of them aborted, stating that he could not afford them. Ultimately, Melissa refused to accept payment of over half of the money still owed to her, stating that she could no longer accept the money.Ĭ.M. Using his sperm and a 20-year-old donor’s eggs, he had 13 embryos created. He hired Melissa, a then-47 year old mother of four from Los Angeles, to be a surrogate. A then-50 year old, deaf, mute Georgia postal worker living in his sick, elderly parents’ basement decided that he wanted to purchase boys using a surrogate. Melissa Cook and her three innocent babies have been caught in the crosshairs of the Wild West nature of the U.S. , the California court stated: “What is going to happen to these children once they are handed over to C.M, that’s none of my business. In fact, in the case currently before the Court, C.M. Supreme Court which presents critical constitutional questions relating to California’s enforcement of surrogacy contracts under the state’s statute.īy the provisions of that statute, anyone - regardless of their suitability, age, living arrangements, inability to care for children, and even if they are not genetically related to the child produced by the arrangement - can buy a child and force termination of her mother’s parental rights even if such termination and separation is harmful to the child. There is currently a petition before the U.S.
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