The National Post also ran this column.
How about the necessity of a father's contact?
Patricia Pearson
October 27, 2001
"The announcement yesterday that a woman was acquitted of child-abduction charges -- after obviously abducting her children -- is making my head spin.
A woman with limited custodial access to her three children decides to hide them in the trunk of her car, sneak them across the border, out of Canada, haul them down to Mexico, fly them to Panama -- where they wind up sleeping in the airport because they don't have correct documents -- fly them back to Mexico, wander them down to Acapulco and hunker down as an illegal alien with no money and no work.
She gets featured on America's Most Wanted and is listed with Interpol as a fugitive being sought for child abduction. Not your average Sunday afternoon visit with the non-custodial parent.
Her triplets, who are seven years old, have been abruptly and totally disconnected from their father, their extended family, their school and their friends, their town and province and country.
They are on the lam, in essence, and will be for the rest of their lives. At least one of them, in testimony offered in an Ontario courthouse last week, was "scared," and "thought I'd never see my dad again."
But none of this matters, not the fear and instability the children were subjected to, not the abject terror their father felt, nor the international manhunt, because it turns out that it was all undertaken by "necessity."
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This woman is proof to me that there is a God and he/she is keeping watch.
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