Olympian Bode Miller Opens Up About "Brutal" Custody Battle for Son Nate, 9 Months

[BBDSP]

Sounds like BM is such a cretin that he is mistaking child custody and parenting for some type of competitive game that he can play and must win at all costs. I guess this type of drive serves him well in sports but not in life. It sucks that a mother and child have to suffer because of it. I don't get why athletically gifted imbeciles like him are idolized in the first place.

[mostroop]

It only became 'brutal' when he tried to strip the child from his mother.

[llamamama]

What is the timeline of this? When did he get the baby and how long did he have him for? How did the mother let that happen, they didn't give her visitation? She went so long without seeing him that he cut a tooth and started crawling without her knowing? I don't get that.

[sluce]

Last year, not long after giving birth, McKenna actually filed a police report against Bode's wife for harassing her online.

Bode Miller's got some lady trouble -- to say the least -- his new baby mama just filed a police report against his new wife, Morgan Beck, for aggravated harassment ... TMZ has learned.

Sara McKenna -- who popped out Bode's kid last month -- filed the report Thursday with the NYPD, claiming Morgan (a pro volleyball champ) has been attacking her online with threatening messages.

Sources close to the situation tell TMZ, Sara told cops that Morgan sent out a slew of negative tweets about her under fake accounts -- calling her names like "c**t" and "bitch" -- then accused Sara of kidnapping Bode's kid and threatened to have her custody rights taken away.

Sara also told cops Morgan's harassing her non-stop with unwanted telephone calls.

TMZ has confirmed the NYPD is currently investigating Sara's claims.

Calls to Bode's lawyer have not been returned. Extensive attempts to reach Morgan for comment have been unsuccessful.


Read more: Bode Miller's Baby Mama Files Police Report -- His Wife Is Harassing Me!!! | TMZ.com

[mostroop]

^^ And this is the couple they gave the child to???????

[Chalet]

I can't post these pics because I'm so squeamish but you tough mamas can. It's safe for work, just icky.


Bode Miller’s Wife Morgan Beck Recovering Nicely From Golf Injury

[MohandasKGanja]

I can't post these pics because I'm so squeamish but you tough mamas can. It's safe for work, just icky.


Bode Miller’s Wife Morgan Beck Recovering Nicely From Golf Injury

I saw them over the weekend. It appears that we have finally found a sport that Bode Miller isn't good at.

[sluce]

^LOL. I had never heard of Morgan Beck before but I just looked at her twitter. She is one of those women whose whole life becomes about their husband, and what a wonderful family they are. She's lucky the Leann haterz haven't latched on to her for how she is handling step parenting. LOL. Looks like they were travelling the entire time they had custody of the baby.

[CornFlakegrl]

No one ever said that, you idiot.

[llamamama]

She's pregnant now?

[Kittylady]

What is the timeline of this? When did he get the baby and how long did he have him for?

Mo put together this estimated timeline earlier in the thread.

It's really difficult to get a timeline on this case. Here is what I've been able to find:

2012 - Bode Miller and Sara McKenna (who at the time was a Marine) have some sort of relationship in California.

May 2012 - doing the math from when Sara McKenna delivered (and this is not an exact science), McKenna conceives a child with Miller. Sometime latter she tells him she is pregnant. According to her, he says he has no interest in fathering a child with her and even encourages an abortion. She invites him to the ultrasound and he declines. The relationship is clearly over around this time.

October 2012 - Bode Miller marries Morgan Beck, a pro volleyball player

November 2012 - Bode Miller files papers claiming paternity of McKenna's pending child in San Diego, California.

December 2012 - Bode Miller and his wife Morgan Miller announce that she is pregnant.

January 2013 - Sara McKenna starts classes at Columbia University, where she will receive a free education through the GI Bill.

January 19, 2013 - Morgan Miller, Bode's wife, suffers a miscarriage.

February 2013 - McKenna gives birth to a boy who she names Samuel Bode Miller-McKenna

May 2013 - A New York judge rules that the custody case should be handled by California. She also criticizes McKenna for coming to New York in the middle of a custody dispute and also suggest that McKenna came there because Miller would have to support the child until 21, unlike in California where he would have to do it until the child is 18. The California court then gives custody of the boy to Miller.

November 25, 2013 - the decision is overturned with a pending December 9 court date.

How did the mother let that happen, they didn't give her visitation? She went so long without seeing him that he cut a tooth and started crawling without her knowing? I don't get that.

It's one thing being given visitation, it's another getting it. She's a student on a Veterans assistance funded course and doesn't have the same financial means as the Millers to be able to travel. Plus she can't afford to miss too many of her college classes, not only for the effect that it would have on her grades but also I expect that there is a minimum attendance requirement linked to it continuing to be funded. Plus we also have what Sluce has concluded from looking at their twitter:

Looks like they were travelling the entire time they had custody of the baby.

That would make it even harder for Sara to maintain contact/visitation - which might be exactly why they did it.

As for the story from TMZ about Morgan harassing Sara I'm taking it as another piece of the puzzle. Morgan doesn't just want to babysnatch to (speculatively) make up for her own loss, she wants to wipe the mothers of his children from history so she can pretend that he was a virgin who had been saving himself for their most perfect love his entire life instead of a condom-dodging manwhore who has to deal with ex girlfriends for the rest of his life.

[ManxMouse]

Just the beginning of the story is bad enough -- there is no justification for knocking someone up in May and marrying someone else in October. Fucking hell, is this guy ever a douche.

[sluce]

I would like to know more of the background on the situation with his daughter Dace. She was 4 when he suddenly filed for: custody rights, visitation, and to establish support. So was he not in her life for 4 year and not paying support? Or did he just want legal protection?

[MohandasKGanja]

I would like to know more of the background on the situation with his daughter Dace. She was 4 when he suddenly filed for: custody rights, visitation, and to establish support. So was he not in her life for 4 year and not paying support? Or did he just want legal protection?

I've been wondering about that, too. This is really a dizzying story to try to research. Lots of online articles appear to have erroneous information and/or contradict each other.

[yanna]

I took the time to read the entire comments of Morgan Miller's since deleted blog post. It was posted as a comment here:

Olympic Skier Bode Miller Returns Fire After Losing Custody Battle Over Baby Boy He Fathered With Ex-Lover: She Wants ‘Revenge & Attention’ | Radar Online

I am not so certain anymore, not 100%. If even a part of what Morgan alleges is true I am not sure I want to back Sara all the way here...

Some excerpts, sorry it's so long:

Saraposted her pregnancy test, without any
warning to Bode, on Twitter and Facebook
tagging Bode in the posts congratulating the
two of them on their "first" child while at the
same time she began sending Bode very
hostile messages.

I have seen that pregnancy announcement. Very tacky

She began posting bizarre messages on herTwitter account such as,
"A silent woman means she is about to
destroy you"
"Hell has no fury like a woman scorned"
"Watch out blondie, he's going to leave you
for what he's always loved, a brunette" and
then proceeded to dye her hair brown.
And her response to our golfing accident.

WTF? No, seriously, wtf? And I don't know about her response to Morgan's accident but I am guessing it was nutty.

Sara disappeared, changed her cellphone number four times, blocked our email
addresses, evaded service of court
documents which Bode filed in October to
establish his parental and custody rights and
to ensure that he would have a meaningful
relationship with Nathaniel, and she fled the
San Diego area during a high risk pregnancy
while ordered on bed rest to Northern
California and then to New York City in mid
December even though she still owns a
home in San Diego. Bode and I were forced
to hire a private investigator to figure out
where she was.

Hmmmm

When Nathaniel was born, the situationcontinued to escalate.
Bode was never informed by Sara of
Nathaniel's birth
She named Nathaniel, Samuel Bode
Miller-Mckenna Jr. without
any input from Bode and did not put
Samuel Bode Miller, the father, on the
birth certificate despite knowing with
certainty he was the biological father.
She flew to California with
Nathaniel when he was a newborn
and never informed Bode she was in
California on the very day Bode was
in court asking for visitation which she
unreasonably opposed.

If true, it doesn't sound like someone who is willing to put her kid first.

Nathaniel has been in child care sincehe was two weeks old between 40-60
hours a week because of Sara's
desire to exclude Bode from
Nathaniel's life by not accepting any
financial support (which was offered
to her) and her busy personal
schedule took precedent over caring
for her newborn son.
When we were in New York for
emergency court ordered visitation,
we asked for extra time with
Nathaniel and to care for him during
the hours he was supposed to be in
child care. She ignored the request.
Even though we were up the street,
wanting and willing to care for
Nathaniel, she preferred to leave him
with a nanny that she found on
craigslist from 6 pm to 4 am because
she was working a bar shift.

Seriously?

For two of our visitations withNathaniel, Sara dressed him in a
onesie that read "My Mom's Outta
Your League."

Klassy

Since we have had primary custody ofNathaniel, he has flourished. We continue to
encourage Sara to maintain her bond with
Nathaniel and include Sara by sending
multiple updates and pictures every couple of
days. Not once have we received a reply
asking how he is doing. We have sent
countless emails asking her if she has any
requests for what she wants him eating,
extra curricular activities, or any other
requests a mother would have for her son.
Not once have we received a reply to these
emails either. We also set up a Skype
account for Nathaniel so Sara can have face
time while he is in our care. Not once has
she utilized this resource and claims she
doesn't have the ability to set up Skype.

If true, seriously disturbing. She couldn't set up Skype? The hell? Not to see her kid?

Also, we have extended all of her visitationsabove what the California
court ordered and
even made an extra trip to New York so she
could have more time with him. Not once
did she take any time off from school or
work while she had him in her care to spend
more time with him or make any extra effort
to see her son when she has had no school
or work obligations.

Again, I need to consider the source here but can there be that much smoke without any fire?

That said, she's the kid's mother, not a freaking surrogate and deciding to call the kid a different name is totally reprehensible. Still, I need to see more of McKenna cause what I read here sounds pretty bad.