Court Absolves Mother of Kidnapping Her Children

	posted by Nightmist on Sunday October 28, @03:52PM from the inequality dept.
	The National Post reports that a mother who became an international fugitive after she kidnapped her three children from their father (who had full custody) was absolved of those kidnappings by a jury, who found her "not guilty by reason of necessity." The outraged father says that the court has now set a precedent for an "open season" on child abductions by non-custodial parents. I wonder if the same jury would've found not guilty a father in this mother's same situation.

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Did you notice... by Anonymous User on Monday October 29, @02:57AM EST (#1) There was one sentence in that news story that neatly summarizes it all: "He [the defendant's lawyer] said he knows of only three other similar cases in Canada since the abduction charge and its defence were added to the Criminal Code in the early 1980s. One woman was conditionally discharged, another was acquitted and one man was convicted."

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