Parental abductions go unpunished, Canadian dads say

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/01/06/bc-parentalabductions.html

Two Canadian fathers whose children were allegedly abducted by their mothers and taken to European countries say authorities have done little to try to enforce court orders and bring them back.

"I'm holding my hands up going, 'Can somebody please do something about this?'" said Calum Hughes, whose five-year-old daughter Livia was allegedly abducted by her mother from B.C. and taken to Italy in 2009.

"Somebody is not doing their job behind a desk," said Gary Mezo, from Thunder Bay, Ont. His two-year-old son Gary Jr. has been in Hungary for a year. Court records confirm his mother took him there without his father's permission.

And everyone's favorite parental kidnapper shows up in the comments, of course. 

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This comment of the Lizard is my favorite.

In every event, Canadian parents of children living abroad should take note of the fact that those of us who advise parents with their children are adept at turning a warrant for parental kidnapping from a weakness into a strength. Courts increasingly recognize that such warrants are less about the criminal law, and much more about influencing the underlying civil dispute. Such warrants are truly a double-edged sword. More often than not, their very existence will guarantee that the complaining parent -- father or mother -- will not "recover" the associated child(ren).

And, lest anyone else think that I am a pro-mother apologist, let me give my personal connection to the issue: before becoming an activist I was a father who successfully fought for custody of his young daughter. You can read my story at the link below.

Yup, he somehow won even though he's still wanted in two countries for abduction. I'm not sure how this works unless he lives in Htrae.

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This comment of the Lizard is my favorite.

In every event, Canadian parents of children living abroad should take note of the fact that those of us who advise parents with their children are adept at turning a warrant for parental kidnapping from a weakness into a strength. Courts increasingly recognize that such warrants are less about the criminal law, and much more about influencing the underlying civil dispute. Such warrants are truly a double-edged sword. More often than not, their very existence will guarantee that the complaining parent -- father or mother -- will not "recover" the associated child(ren).

And, lest anyone else think that I am a pro-mother apologist, let me give my personal connection to the issue: before becoming an activist I was a father who successfully fought for custody of his young daughter. You can read my story at the link below.

Yup, he somehow won even though he's still wanted in two countries for abduction. I'm not sure how this works unless he lives in Htrae.

Heh.. yeah, he's unemployed in Greece after kidnapping his daughter, has arrest warrants in two countries and says he won.  Kinda reminds of Charlie Sheen nonsensically saying "I'm winning."

Some interesting euphemisms in his comment like:

1.) "those of us who advise parents with their children" = "Those of us who advise parents who have successfully abducted their children to a foreign country."

2.) "I was a father who successfully fought for custody of his young daughter." = "I abducted my daughter to a country where the mother didn't know anyone, didn't speak the language and was unable to travel to in order to fight for custody."

As someone who kidnapped a little girl from her mother I don't think he's in any danger of being mistaken for "an apologist for mothers..."

Of course it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that someone who has multiple arrest warrants for parental kidnapping would talk about how criminal laws against parental kidnapping are a bad thing. 

I suppose he missed the recent article where a top UK judge said he saw no reason for the law to distinguish between parental kidnapping and stranger kidnapping and thought they should receive similar criminal sentences (ie up to life in prison.)

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The site that he links that isn't the fake NCMEC used to belong to her mother, and it's where I contacted her a long time ago. He bought it and obviously changed it.

He's not pro-father or pro-mother; he's pro-kidnapper.

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The site that he links that isn't the fake NCMEC used to belong to her mother, and it's where I contacted her a long time ago. He bought it and obviously changed it.

He's not pro-father or pro-mother; he's pro-kidnapper.

Not even pro-kidnapper.  He's just pro-himself.  He takes every side of every issue when it's convenient for him.  That's why he says so many things that directly contradict himself if you pay attention long enough.  It just so happens though that, as a kidnapper, it's usually in his own self-interest to say things that are pro-kidnapper.  He's like the sleazy lawyer you see on TV saying anything and everything he can to defend the criminal that everyone knows is guilty ...but he doesn't really stand for anything, except himself.