Monday, July 21, 2014: If you have spent any time watching ESPN in the last 20-years, you undoubtedly have seen SportsCenter. Then Stuart Scott needs no introduction. I am not big on award shows, however I did watch Stuart Scott’s speech from the ESPY’s last week. If you have not seen it, Google it. It will be worth the effort. For 20-years I saw Stuart Scott as the entertainer, bringing life into sports highlights with a personality and flair that cannot be duplicated. Without question he is the best in the business. It was not until last week, we got to see Stuart Scott, the man. What he had to say that night at the ESPY’s will always be in the back of my mind.
Stuart Scott has been battling cancer for some time now. He’s putting up a hell of a fight and have no doubt he will beat this! Stuart, if I may paraphrase what you said in your speech, “life’s journey is about the people that touch us”. I have never met Stuart Scott personally, at the same time I cannot help but feel he was talking directly to me that night. I am not fighting cancer. I am fighting for my daughter’s life still after all these years. The cancer in my case is a cultural one. It’s a very small group of people who don’t care about how their actions affect others. It’s a mother in Adriana Coronel Tenorio (AKA Adriana Howitt Coronel, Ari Coronel, Ari Coronel Tenorio, Ari Howitt, Ari Howitt Coronel) who uses people for her own selfish reasons. It’s her boyfriend, Isaias Palomeque (AKA Isaias Uzziel Palomeque, Isaias Palomeque Vergara, Project Manager at DJO Global) who still likes to post creepy pictures of my daughter on his Facebook page and doesn’t seem to mind the role of home wrecker. After all Adriana is married to Danny Howitt (AKA Daniel Duncan Howitt, Elizabeth Farquhar Duncan, Kenneth Duncan) yet she still lives in your house. Suffice it to say, it’s a family that chooses to enable such heinous behavior, all the while setting the bar so low on how a family should act like as they all continue to perjure themselves in a court of law in an effort to steal 1/2 a little girl’s identity away from her. The walls are closing in on these reprobates. They know it and that’s why they act the way they do.
Look, I am here for my daughter. I love my daughter Samantha more than words will ever be able to express. Most Dad’s in my position would have given up a long time ago. I have met a lot of Dad’s in my position who have. Being Samantha’s Dad is the best thing I have ever done or will ever do in my lifetime. That is one thing Samantha’s abductors did not count on, the size of a man’s heart when one tries to rip it out of his chest. If they actually had hearts or a morale compass, they would understand exactly what I am saying.
Stuart Scott said it best, “You beat cancer by HOW you live, WHY you live, and in the manner in WHICH you live”. That goes for life in general, don’t you think? God bless you Stuart Scott.
I saw the Stuart Scott speech…there was not a dry eye in the house that night. Your tribute post is very well done. We have been following your situation for sometime. It’s people like Samantha’s mother and that asshole boyfriend of hers who give the rest of us hard working Mexicans a bad name. They (and those who support their behavior) are in the minority. Hang in there…you have a lot more friends in Mexico than you may think.