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Bahama Mama
 

August 12th, 2010:  The day has finally arrived!   After 15 years of sorrow, my daughter Falon who was Kidnapped by her father and taken to the Bahamas on November 4, 1995, thru Facebook & Skype,  asked to come home!  She is back in my arms!  She is home not because any form of government helped her get home, but because she simply wanted to.  She said she has 15 years to catch up on!  She was only 4 when she was taken.  I have missed out on 15 years of her life.  She is now 19.   I am beyond happy!  I am over joyed!  It is incredible to watch my two daughters together again.  It is bitter sweet because they do not know each other but they will have this time to connect and bond.  My daughter does not know me, but we will use this time, however long I have with her, to reconnect and love each other again.  There are many emotions in my home now.  I am very careful what not to say. I am careful not to overload Falon with too much too soon but Loving her and  keeping in mind that my other daughter Daxanne is now feeling slightly jealous already.  My husband and main supporter and best friend is extremely overjoyed to see us together.  I am just going to take one day at a time and enjoy it while it last.  She says she's going to stay but she is 19 and I'm sure she will move on soon.  I won't take a moment for granted.   I want to thank everyone who shared in my grief and prayed for Falon to come home.  I will continue to pray for those parents whose children are still not able to come home.  I will always be a Left Behind Parent.  I will always have a broken heart although at least now I can say that a patch has now been put on it.  A loving patch!  I will never forget when we marched side by side and cried side by side.  Be rest assured this fight goes on for me because Parental Abduction is still an issue untouched by the government.  As most of you know I do sing and I have written a one woman play called AMID - A MOTHER IN DISTRESS.  In this play I allow people to experience what it is like to have a normal life and then have it ripped from you in an instance.  I want to make people feel so they will be moved to action.  With the help of music, I want to make people understand that Parental Abduction is a crime and should be treated as such.  I am still in the revising stage but when this play is done I will make sure to let everyone know.  I won't leave this issue alone.  I can't!  Continue to pray because God is good!  Be strong.  I will continue to pray for all Left Behind Parents.   I can finally exhale............................... adrianne

Questions over the role of a New Jersey matrimonial firm in an international child abduction are at the heart of an unusual suit set to go to trial in Bergen County, N.J., this summer.

Madeline Marzano-Lesnevich and her firm, Lesnevich & Marzano-Lesnevich of Hackensack, N.J., are accused of helping former client Maria Jose Carrascosa take her daughter to Carrascosa's native Spain, in violation of a parenting agreement with the child's father, Peter Innes.

Innes alleges the firm aided the abduction or negligently ignored its obligation to abide by the agreement, which prohibited removing Victoria Innes from the United States and required Carrascosa's lawyer to hold Victoria's U.S. passport to prevent that from happening. For complete story go to:http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202463246952&Matrimonial_Firm_to_Go_on_Trial_for_Allegedly_Aiding_in_Childs_Abduction

On Friday morning, federal authorities arrested Renee Blasingame, 51, at her home on Live Oak Drive in Lafayette. She's the mother of Michael Blasingame, 28, who was supposed to return his son Eitan, now 3, to his mother two years ago in Plano, Texas.

Instead, authorities allege, Blasingame took the child out of the country and to countries scattered across the globe. Those authorities believe Blasingame, also listed as a Lafayette resident, may be getting help from people in the United States, maybe even in the Lafayette area, where he is known to have relatives and friends. For the rest of the story go to:
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20100707/OPINION/7070342/Fighting-parental-child-abduction

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Dad Sentenced to 30 Months in Federal Prison For International Abduction 

Florida passes parental kidnapping prevention law
 
Once again, it has been a parent that has risen up to take on the cause of protecting children and families. Like California and Texas, Florida has passed the parental kidnapping prevention law.  It was a parent that took the initiative to draft legislation, recruit legislatures to sponsor the bill, and a parent that stood before countless congressional forums to lobbying into law-a prevention act.

Carolyn Vik, a Florida mother, took drastic action to protect her child from being internationally abducted. After enduring the frustration and fear of litigating custody, with international abduction central to her concerns, Vik, determined that no Florida child should ever be placed in such a dangerous position again. That position was leaving the fate of her child in the hands of often times, uneducated courts that rely on their state's family law code, without any real knowledge or experience regarding "risks".  The new law requires judges to look at specific charactorisitcs that may predispose a child to be at risk for abduction.

March 28, 2010
Sweden Publishes "Risk Factors"
Click on link below. (Swedish)
http://www.saknadebarn.org/2010/03/29/faktaserie-del-1-tidig-riskidentifiering/

Child Abducted to Japan 1913.
For information on this and the history of parental kidnapping worldwide, email: freechild_2005@yahoo.com