Again, we are going to show you what it looks like to experience birthdays as an abducted child. As Samantha’s father, and Left-Behind Parent, just trying to spend time with Samantha on or around her birthday was a constant struggle. Adriana Coronel Tenorio (AKA Adriana Howitt Coronel, Ari Coronel, Ari Coronel Tenorio, Ari Howitt, Ari Howitt Coronel) did everything she could to make sure I was never part of Samantha’s birthdays. She would pick fights with me. She would threaten me. She would tell me she made other plans out of town. You name it, Adriana tried to do it.
Then Adriana realized she needed money.
Samantha would not have had birthday parties at all if it was not for me. And still, Adriana would try to pick fights and threaten me even after I paid for and helped plan a birthday party for Samantha she never had any intention of allowing me to attend. She could not just co-exist for Samantha’s sake on Samantha’s birthday. I never fell for the bait. That angered Adriana even more. That’s fine. Her problem. Not mine.
Adriana was losing court case after court case. Even the Supreme Court sided with us back in 2010, which was the impetus for her ambushing me and having me thrown in La Mesa Prison for no reason. To say the environment they created when I was able to see Samantha was hostile on a regular basis is an understatement.
This video is from Samantha’s 6th birthday back in 2012. For a couple minutes the video is on an angle. Bear with it because it gets corrected. I had to figure out how to disguise it while recording. You will notice a few things. For starters the big birthday cake. I did not know who was going to be at Adriana’s house that day so I made sure to have enough for everybody. This was about Samantha. Not me. We have always tried to make peace every chance we could.
You will notice that we were confined to the living room. This was where all visits had to be for years. This was not a one off situation. Believe me, Samantha protested regularly. This gives you an idea of what that looked like. Notice the voices in the background. The female voice is a woman named Tina. She was the cleaning person/nanny. Nice girl. Why Adriana needed a nanny when she did not work is beyond me. Adriana’s father is one of the other voices. He came up from Mexico City to try and talk some sense into Adriana. And the other voice belongs to Isaias Palomeque (AKA Isaias Uzziel Palomeque, Isaias Palomeque Vergara, Project Manager at DJO Global). Tina was in the kitchen while Adriana’s father and Palomeque were sitting at the dining room table watching over Samantha and me. That table was only a few feet away. Adriana was not there. And when she was not there, someone was always watching over us and ready to interfere if they did not like something. Palomeque never dared to get in the way. Tina did at the direction of Adriana or Maria Guadalupe Tenorio Toledano (AKA Lupita Tenorio, Marsha Tenorio). Disguising is the interference with an impromptu dusting up of a TV that had no dust on it.
Notice Samantha’s demeanor. She’s happy I am there. She’s happy that I can celebrate her birthday with her. And she is comfortable with me. These videos are all part of the court files. And every DIF (children services) representative and every judge all said the same thing: not only is Samantha happy to be around me, she is comfortable and you can tell she feels safe with me. That is music to any Dad’s ears. At some point, Samantha puts on a Disney movie for us to watch. Then she turns to Tina (the nanny) to ask for permission to sit on the couch next to me. That is incredible!
It dawned on me that kind of manipulation by Adriana started a long time ago. Wrap your head around that for a second. Samantha had to ask permission to sit next to me (her own Dad) on the couch for her own birthday! When I told you that you did not have to ask permission for that, there wasn’t any hesitation on your part, you came to the other side of the room and curled up on my chest like you have done many times before.
There is one last thing you will notice, you don’t see my friends or family. Nor do you see any positive interaction with the people already there.
