Kidnapping Mother Gets Favorable News Story

Submitted by charlie on Sun, 2013-04-21 17:09

Article here. In this story, a mother who has kidnapped a child and then uses the child to gain empathy gets favorable news coverage. Note that she had shared custody in the country where she and the child had lived with the father. But, rather than accept the judgement of the court, she chose to kidnap the child and attempt to gain sole custody through the use of accusations of abuse against the father. The reporter includes an interview with the child that is apparently supposed to make readers sympathetic to her cause. Shouldn't she be facing kidnapping charges rather than a sympathetic news story? Excerpt:

'Olivia, who turned 5 on Saturday, is at the center of a bitter international legal dispute between her two divorced parents.

Swedish courts have ruled that her mother, Mariah Talbot, abducted Olivia, taking her from Sweden to the United States without her father’s permission. On April 9, U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank ordered Olivia promptly returned. Olivia’s Swedish grandmother is expected to arrive in the Twin Cities this week and take the girl back to Sweden, where she was born and raised.

“I don’t know if I will ever see her again,” said her mother, tears in her eyes.

Olivia’s father, who took his daughter to the Mall of America during a three-day visit to Minnesota this month, said in an e-mail to the Star Tribune that Olivia’s family and friends are looking forward to her return.'

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The article states the father had warned Swedish embassy of a possible kidnapping and they blocked the girls Swedish passport, but the mother was able to get her a USA passport and used it to get the girl out of Sweden!

also from the article: "Mariah Talbot acknowledges that she has left two of her older children, a girl, 11, and a boy who is 9, from her first marriage in Sweden, where they are being looked after by her first husband and his parents."

I wonder if she pays any child support for her children? I wonder if she will have to pay travel and other expenses she has caused? She is expecting another child with her current husband in the USA.

Kuddos for the maternal grandma for siding with her ex-son-in-law in this drama.

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Submitted by Kris on Mon, 2013-04-22 02:11