People complain about men who don't take responsibility. Here I am, wanting to be a father to my son': Young dad wins custody THREE YEARS after mother secretly put son up for adoption as a newborn
Jeremiah Sampson was playing football for Pittsburg State University in Kansas in 2009 when he began dating a girl, who then fell pregnant
They were not together when the baby was born in September 2010
When he went to be with her on the day the child was due, he found out his son had been put up for adoption weeks earlier
He challenged the adoptive parents, who lived in Florida, and eventually won
At Christmas last year he was granted full-time custody of his son, Hilkya, with visitation rights from the mother
Sampson is also suing the adoption agency for violating his parental rights
A 26-year-old Oklahoma student who did not know his girlfriend had adopted out his son has successfully won full-time custody of his child.
Jeremiah Sampson, of Coweta, has officially been a full-time single dad since Christmas last year.
However his battle to win back his son, three-year-old Hilkya, has taken three years and cost him almost everything he has.
In 2008, Sampson was recruited to play running back and receiver for Pittsburg State, a small public university in southeast Kansas, where he met his girlfriend, Tulsa World reported.
I wasn't looking to settle down or anything like that,' he said.
'We both understood it wasn't serious.'
In December 2009, after not seeing him for a few weeks, the girlfriend came to his house with an opened box of pregnancy tests and disappeared into the bathroom to take one, Sampson said.
When she came out, she showed him the positive result.
Sampson said they needed to go to a doctor but she refused, causing him to doubt her pregnancy.
'I really thought it was trickery,' he said.
'I thought it was all mind games.'
The relationship ended and he heard nothing else about the pregnancy, Sampson said, until March 2010.
His cellphone rang as he was walking out of class.
A woman identified herself as a representative of an adoption agency.
'You've been alleged as a potential father,' she told him.
Sampson asked for a paternity test
If I'm the father I want it,' he said.
"The mother has already put the baby up for adoption,' the woman said.
'I don't want that,' Sampson insisted.
'It's not necessary. That doesn't need to happen.'
'And that makes me a bad guy?'
The judge nullified the adoption in July 2011 and temporarily put the baby in state custody while giving Sampson visitation rights.
Hilkyah, pronounced Hill-Kye-Yah, warmed up immediately to Sampson's attorney.
But light-skinned with streaks of blonde in his hair, Hilkyah wouldn't come to his father, who's dark-skinned with shoulder-length dreadlocks.
'They say babies are color blind or don't notice any of that,' Sampson said.
'But I tell you, they do. They notice.'
It didn't take long to bond, however.
'He has a lot of energy and reminds me a lot of myself,' Sampson said.
He shared custody 50-50 with the birth mother until the day after Christmas last year, when a Missouri judge granted Sampson full custody with visitation from the mother.
Sampson dropped out of college to pay for the three-year court battle.
The custody battle of Jeremiah Sampson is similiar to the epic case of 'Baby Veronica', in which a biological father in Oklahoma was pitted against adoptive parents out of state in 2011
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The custody battle of Jeremiah Sampson is similiar to the epic case of 'Baby Veronica', in which a biological father in Oklahoma was pitted against adoptive parents out of state in 2011
He now works as a mental-health technician and plans to start nursing school this summer.
His case resembles last year's monumental 'Baby Veronica' custody battle, pitting a biological father in Oklahoma against adoptive parents out of state.
Veronica went to South Carolina for the first two years of her life before her father, Dusten Brown, won custody in 2011 and brought her back to Nowata, an hour north of Tulsa.
Then Veronica's adoptive parents appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and, after a four-month standoff in various courtrooms across Oklahoma, took Veronica home to Charleston last September.
Sampson is now suing the adoption agency for allegedly violating his parental rights by going ahead with the placement even after he objected.
'And that makes me a bad guy?'
The judge nullified the adoption in July 2011 and temporarily put the baby in state custody while giving Sampson visitation rights.
Hilkyah, pronounced Hill-Kye-Yah, warmed up immediately to Sampson's attorney.
But light-skinned with streaks of blonde in his hair, Hilkyah wouldn't come to his father, who's dark-skinned with shoulder-length dreadlocks.
'They say babies are color blind or don't notice any of that,' Sampson said.
'But I tell you, they do. They notice.'
It didn't take long to bond, however.
'He has a lot of energy and reminds me a lot of myself,' Sampson said.
He shared custody 50-50 with the birth mother until the day after Christmas last year, when a Missouri judge granted Sampson full custody with visitation from the mother.
Sampson dropped out of college to pay for the three-year court battle.
The custody battle of Jeremiah Sampson is similiar to the epic case of 'Baby Veronica', in which a biological father in Oklahoma was pitted against adoptive parents out of state in 2011
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The custody battle of Jeremiah Sampson is similiar to the epic case of 'Baby Veronica', in which a biological father in Oklahoma was pitted against adoptive parents out of state in 2011
He now works as a mental-health technician and plans to start nursing school this summer.
His case resembles last year's monumental 'Baby Veronica' custody battle, pitting a biological father in Oklahoma against adoptive parents out of state.
Veronica went to South Carolina for the first two years of her life before her father, Dusten Brown, won custody in 2011 and brought her back to Nowata, an hour north of Tulsa.
Then Veronica's adoptive parents appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and, after a four-month standoff in various courtrooms across Oklahoma, took Veronica home to Charleston last September.
Sampson is now suing the adoption agency for allegedly violating his parental rights by going ahead with the placement even after he objected.
Read more: Young Oklahoma father successfully wins back son from adoptive parents and is granted full-time custody following three-year battle | Mail Online
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Jeremiah Sampson was playing football for Pittsburg State University in Kansas in 2009 when he began dating a girl, who then fell pregnant
They were not together when the baby was born in September 2010
When he went to be with her on the day the child was due, he found out his son had been put up for adoption weeks earlier
He challenged the adoptive parents, who lived in Florida, and eventually won
At Christmas last year he was granted full-time custody of his son, Hilkya, with visitation rights from the mother
Sampson is also suing the adoption agency for violating his parental rights
A 26-year-old Oklahoma student who did not know his girlfriend had adopted out his son has successfully won full-time custody of his child.
Jeremiah Sampson, of Coweta, has officially been a full-time single dad since Christmas last year.
However his battle to win back his son, three-year-old Hilkya, has taken three years and cost him almost everything he has.
In 2008, Sampson was recruited to play running back and receiver for Pittsburg State, a small public university in southeast Kansas, where he met his girlfriend, Tulsa World reported.
I wasn't looking to settle down or anything like that,' he said.
'We both understood it wasn't serious.'
In December 2009, after not seeing him for a few weeks, the girlfriend came to his house with an opened box of pregnancy tests and disappeared into the bathroom to take one, Sampson said.
When she came out, she showed him the positive result.
Sampson said they needed to go to a doctor but she refused, causing him to doubt her pregnancy.
'I really thought it was trickery,' he said.
'I thought it was all mind games.'
The relationship ended and he heard nothing else about the pregnancy, Sampson said, until March 2010.
His cellphone rang as he was walking out of class.
A woman identified herself as a representative of an adoption agency.
'You've been alleged as a potential father,' she told him.
Sampson asked for a paternity test
If I'm the father I want it,' he said.
"The mother has already put the baby up for adoption,' the woman said.
'I don't want that,' Sampson insisted.
'It's not necessary. That doesn't need to happen.'
'And that makes me a bad guy?'
The judge nullified the adoption in July 2011 and temporarily put the baby in state custody while giving Sampson visitation rights.
Hilkyah, pronounced Hill-Kye-Yah, warmed up immediately to Sampson's attorney.
But light-skinned with streaks of blonde in his hair, Hilkyah wouldn't come to his father, who's dark-skinned with shoulder-length dreadlocks.
'They say babies are color blind or don't notice any of that,' Sampson said.
'But I tell you, they do. They notice.'
It didn't take long to bond, however.
'He has a lot of energy and reminds me a lot of myself,' Sampson said.
He shared custody 50-50 with the birth mother until the day after Christmas last year, when a Missouri judge granted Sampson full custody with visitation from the mother.
Sampson dropped out of college to pay for the three-year court battle.
The custody battle of Jeremiah Sampson is similiar to the epic case of 'Baby Veronica', in which a biological father in Oklahoma was pitted against adoptive parents out of state in 2011
+5
The custody battle of Jeremiah Sampson is similiar to the epic case of 'Baby Veronica', in which a biological father in Oklahoma was pitted against adoptive parents out of state in 2011
He now works as a mental-health technician and plans to start nursing school this summer.
His case resembles last year's monumental 'Baby Veronica' custody battle, pitting a biological father in Oklahoma against adoptive parents out of state.
Veronica went to South Carolina for the first two years of her life before her father, Dusten Brown, won custody in 2011 and brought her back to Nowata, an hour north of Tulsa.
Then Veronica's adoptive parents appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and, after a four-month standoff in various courtrooms across Oklahoma, took Veronica home to Charleston last September.
Sampson is now suing the adoption agency for allegedly violating his parental rights by going ahead with the placement even after he objected.
'And that makes me a bad guy?'
The judge nullified the adoption in July 2011 and temporarily put the baby in state custody while giving Sampson visitation rights.
Hilkyah, pronounced Hill-Kye-Yah, warmed up immediately to Sampson's attorney.
But light-skinned with streaks of blonde in his hair, Hilkyah wouldn't come to his father, who's dark-skinned with shoulder-length dreadlocks.
'They say babies are color blind or don't notice any of that,' Sampson said.
'But I tell you, they do. They notice.'
It didn't take long to bond, however.
'He has a lot of energy and reminds me a lot of myself,' Sampson said.
He shared custody 50-50 with the birth mother until the day after Christmas last year, when a Missouri judge granted Sampson full custody with visitation from the mother.
Sampson dropped out of college to pay for the three-year court battle.
The custody battle of Jeremiah Sampson is similiar to the epic case of 'Baby Veronica', in which a biological father in Oklahoma was pitted against adoptive parents out of state in 2011
+5
The custody battle of Jeremiah Sampson is similiar to the epic case of 'Baby Veronica', in which a biological father in Oklahoma was pitted against adoptive parents out of state in 2011
He now works as a mental-health technician and plans to start nursing school this summer.
His case resembles last year's monumental 'Baby Veronica' custody battle, pitting a biological father in Oklahoma against adoptive parents out of state.
Veronica went to South Carolina for the first two years of her life before her father, Dusten Brown, won custody in 2011 and brought her back to Nowata, an hour north of Tulsa.
Then Veronica's adoptive parents appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and, after a four-month standoff in various courtrooms across Oklahoma, took Veronica home to Charleston last September.
Sampson is now suing the adoption agency for allegedly violating his parental rights by going ahead with the placement even after he objected.
Read more: Young Oklahoma father successfully wins back son from adoptive parents and is granted full-time custody following three-year battle | Mail Online
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