Not a day goes by when Melissa Cook doesn’t catch herself thinking about the triplets she gave birth to in February 2016 as a surrogate mom—and the “horror story” that has played out ever since.
“It happens every single day,” says Cook, a Los Angeles-based 49-year-old divorced mother of four kids. “I’m always wondering what’s going on with them. I feel so bad for them.”
Cook made headlines in 2015 after the birth father who demanded that she abort—first all three of the fetuses, she says, then one—because he’d run out of cash.
Cook last...
“It happens every single day,” says Cook, a Los Angeles-based 49-year-old divorced mother of four kids. “I’m always wondering what’s going on with them. I feel so bad for them.”
Cook made headlines in 2015 after the birth father who demanded that she abort—first all three of the fetuses, she says, then one—because he’d run out of cash.
Cook last...
- 9/22/2017
- by Johnny Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
A 12-page document was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday that details a nightmarish list of allegations against a 51-year-old single father who made headlines in 2015 when he demanded that the surrogate mother carrying his triplets abort one of the babies because he’d run out of cash.
The man, identified only as C.M. in the court papers, is accused of keeping the 18-month-old boys in “deplorable” living conditions in the basement of his invalid parents’ home and suffering from “serious personality and mental problems” that allegedly call into question his ability to care for the children,...
The man, identified only as C.M. in the court papers, is accused of keeping the 18-month-old boys in “deplorable” living conditions in the basement of his invalid parents’ home and suffering from “serious personality and mental problems” that allegedly call into question his ability to care for the children,...
- 9/21/2017
- by Johnny Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
The triplets at the center of a custody battle - between the surrogate mom who gave birth to them and their biological father - have left the Los Angeles hospital where they've been kept since their birth in February and are now living at their father's home in Georgia. "They're doing fine," Robert Walmsley, the father's attorney, tells People. "My client is finally getting to raise his kids and he's loving it. He's a happy guy right now." In March, a Los Angeles judge granted surrogate mom Melissa Cook a temporary stay that prohibited the biological father, identified only as C.
- 4/30/2016
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
The triplets at the center of a custody battle - between the surrogate mom who gave birth to them and their biological father - have left the Los Angeles hospital where they've been kept since their birth in February and are now living at their father's home in Georgia. "They're doing fine," Robert Walmsley, the father's attorney, tells People. "My client is finally getting to raise his kids and he's loving it. He's a happy guy right now." In March, a Los Angeles judge granted surrogate mom Melissa Cook a temporary stay that prohibited the biological father, identified only as C.
- 4/30/2016
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Melissa Cook - the California surrogate mom at the center of a custody battle over triplets she delivered last month - has been granted a temporary stay on a Los Angeles Court's ruling that previously granted custody of her newborn triplets to their biological father. The new development prohibits the father, who is based in Georgia, from removing the children from California. Per the court's ruling, the infants will remain in California until a new decision has been made by the court. Cook, a Woodland Hills mother of four, filed lawsuits against the triplets' biological father, asking for custody of...
- 3/31/2016
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- PEOPLE.com
Melissa Cook - the California surrogate mom at the center of a custody battle over triplets she delivered last month - has been granted a temporary stay on a Los Angeles Court's ruling that previously granted custody of her newborn triplets to their biological father. The new development prohibits the father, who is based in Georgia, from removing the children from California. Per the court's ruling, the infants will remain in California until a new decision has been made by the court. Cook, a Woodland Hills mother of four, filed lawsuits against the triplets' biological father, asking for custody of...
- 3/31/2016
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- PEOPLE.com
For Melissa Cook - the California surrogate mom at the center of a custody battle over the triplets she delivered last month - the physical scars from her ordeal are healing much faster than the emotional ones. "Every day is hard," Cook tells People in an exclusive interview from her home in Woodland Hills, California. "I go through moments of crying and I try and force myself to think of something else. But I can't stop thinking about those babies and what's going to happen to them." The 47-year-old mother of four found herself entangled in a complex headline-making legal battle earlier this year,...
- 3/15/2016
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
For Melissa Cook - the California surrogate mom at the center of a custody battle over the triplets she delivered last month - the physical scars from her ordeal are healing much faster than the emotional ones. "Every day is hard," Cook tells People in an exclusive interview from her home in Woodland Hills, California. "I go through moments of crying and I try and force myself to think of something else. But I can't stop thinking about those babies and what's going to happen to them." The 47-year-old mother of four found herself entangled in a complex headline-making legal battle earlier this year,...
- 3/15/2016
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Melissa Cook doesn't have many reasons for smiling these days. On Feb. 22, the 47-year-old surrogate mom from Woodland Hills, Calif., gave birth to three baby boys that she'd been hired to carry for a man she now believes is unable to care for them. Soon after the babies were born, she watched helplessly as nurses whisked the infants away from her. "She's very, very sad and distraught," says her attorney Harold Cassidy, who has filed lawsuits on Cook's behalf to have the state's surrogacy law declared unconstitutional and grant her custody of the children. "She can't even provide breast milk for them,...
- 3/3/2016
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Surrogate mom Melissa Cook, 47, was one month pregnant and driving up to Lake Tahoe for a vacation last September when she was hit with a bombshell from the father of the triplets she was carrying. "I saw that I had an email on my phone and told my mom, 'I need to pull over, so I can read this,' " Cook, a divorced mother of four children from Woodland Hills, Calif., tells People in this week's issue. She quickly realized she'd been copied on communication between the biological father - a 50-year-old single, deaf postal worker from Georgia who lives...
- 3/2/2016
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Surrogate mom Melissa Cook, 47, was one month pregnant and driving up to Lake Tahoe for a vacation last September when she was hit with a bombshell from the father of the triplets she was carrying. "I saw that I had an email on my phone and told my mom, 'I need to pull over, so I can read this,' " Cook, a divorced mother of four children from Woodland Hills, Calif., tells People in this week's issue. She quickly realized she'd been copied on communication between the biological father - a 50-year-old single, deaf postal worker from Georgia who lives...
- 3/2/2016
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
A lawsuit has been filed in California by a surrogate mom who has been asked to abort one of the triplets she's carrying because the father only wants twins. The 47-page complaint, file today in Los Angeles Superior Court, details the heart-breaking story of Melissa Cook, a 47-year-old mother of four who has refused to abort the child and now wants the state's surrogacy law declared unconstitutional. "I have a deep empathy for men who want children," Cook says in a statement released to People. "However, I now think that the basic concept of surrogacy arrangements must be re-examined, scrutinized and reconsidered.
- 1/6/2016
- by by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
A lawsuit has been filed in California by a surrogate mom who has been asked to abort one of the triplets she's carrying because the father only wants twins. The 47-page complaint, file today in Los Angeles Superior Court, details the heart-breaking story of Melissa Cook, a 47-year-old mother of four who has refused to abort the child and now wants the state's surrogacy law declared unconstitutional. "I have a deep empathy for men who want children," Cook says in a statement released to People. "However, I now think that the basic concept of surrogacy arrangements must be re-examined, scrutinized and reconsidered.
- 1/6/2016
- by by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
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