Anyone that has followed the events that have taken place at a local restaurant in Waco, TX are aware that nine people  lost their lives in what appears to be a shootout between several motorcycle groups. While the tragic loss of life and Hollywood movie style boldness of the event remains the main story that the news and media are paying attention to, there is another tragedy taking place as a result of this very unfortunate incident. Proud adoptive parents Rob and Marilyn Bucy have lost custody of their adoptive daughter with very little recourse to reverse the situation.

Rob and Marilyn Bucy had custody of 5-year old Alyssa who they were in the process of adopting from the State of California when the unfortunate events took place that day in Waco, TX. Rob was not a direct participant in any of the violence that happened. He was arrested none-the-less as overzealous law enforcement officers attempted to sort through the mess that had unfolded. While Rob was being held in a Waco jail alongside 176 others bikers arrested in the same event, Marilyn received a “notice of emergency removal” from California officials, who had halted the family’s planned adoption. The notice stated that Rob was now considered a threat to the child’s safety and ordered Alyssa to be removed from the home. Marilyn was forced to comply and turn Alyssa over to the State of California who has now been placed with another family in California. Both Rob and Marilyn are unaware of where Alyssa is and have no way to contact her.

Even with the support of their Texas caseworker, the Bucys were not able to deter the emergency order and are now at the mercy of an appeals judge to reunite their family. “I really feel that I have done everything I could do to show the court, show the judge, that we love her…this is our daughter,” Rob Bucy said. “She’s here with family, she needs to come home.”