In Re Adoption of Kassandra B.

Martin Gomez, the father of Kassandra B. and Nicholas B., children born out of wedlock, contests their adoption by appellants, Timothy L. Savage and Karen M. Savage. The birth mother, Anita Bechtold, had given custody of the two children to an adoption agency, K.E.S.I.L., for the purpose of adoption. Bechtold falsely told K.E.S.I.L. that she did not know the identity of the children’s father(s). K.E.S.I.L. placed the children in the Savages’ home, and the Savages eventually filed an adoption petition in the county court for Cass County. Gomez discovered the pending adoptions, entered his *914oppos…