Posted on 03/05/2010 9:39:15 AM PST by JoeProBono
MONROVIA, Calif., March 5 (UPI) -- Police said a 22-year-old woman who was a child when she was allegedly abducted by her mother has been found in Los Angeles County, Calif.
Investigators said Thursday they located Jessica Click-Hill, who was reported missing by her father in 1995, and arrested Click-Hill's mother, Wendy D. Hill, after authorities were able to track the mother-daughter pair to Monrovia, Calif., the Contra Costa (Calif.) Times reported.
FBI and police investigators were able to locate the two individuals in Monrovia thanks to a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
"They are a clearinghouse for people to make tips about missing children," FBI spokesman Joseph Schadler said of the center. The original source of the tip was not released.
The Times said Hill, 52, is being held on $250,000 bail after being arrested on warrants connected to the 1995 alleged abduction in Walnut Creek, Calif.
Family courts are a Gynocracy. We should do to the judges who have enabled this Gynocracy what the Romanians did to Ceausescu.
Family courts are a Gynocracy.
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Would seem in this case, the man was given custody. That’s why mom is under arrest.
“Oh really? Even if its more likely that he had visitation rights and she hated him so much for the usual reasons that she thought she could hurt him most severely by not allowing him to see his own daughter grow up ?”
Exactly. This girl has been deprived of he father for the most important years of her growing up, and he has been deprived of his daughter.
I’ve been parentally kidnapped. Absolutely no excuse for it, unless the mother truly was saving her daughter from abuse, and not just in her warped mind.
Father’s money and connections are irrelevant.
Big difference there. This was the kids mother.
Maybe. It depends on how she was raised and what Mom removed the kid from.
I never got that lock up the father deal. If he can’t work he can’t help with support.
She was raised as a fugitive from the law after having been removed from her legal custodial parent. Had there been anything for her to be "removed from", the court would certainly not have awarded full custody to her father.
The awarding of full custody to the father is an extremely rare event, at least in California divorces.
I think it would be traumatic for a child to have to live with a fugitive. This must mean that she ‘lost’ contact with all her friends, relatives, changed schools, was given another name to answer to etc.
Not so big a difference, as Garrido and Hill are both charged with kidnapping.
Those who do not have custody of a child (Garrido and Hill) are not legally entitled to run off with a child someone else has custody of.
So, since you are defending mom’s right to violate a court order, you must know why the courts wrongly gave custody to the father. I’m sure you’re not defending mom purely because she’s a woman (he said with dripping sarcasm).
The papers are full of tragic stories of stupid judges giving custody to an abusive parent or gaurdian. I don't know what happened in this case and don't wish to argue about it. It was just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions.
Soooooo....still no mea culpa?
The circumstances of individual divorces are as varied as the individuals who leave each other.
We have all seen father’s who will not pay because they are lousy fathers. We have seen fathers who simply did not have the resources to pay ,we have seen wives move out and move right in with their boyfriends and spend the child support on the boyfriend and not the kids.
I could go on and on as most of us can, but placing a recalcitrant husband in jail should be the last resort. as he cannot pay from jail and then probably loses the job he could have used to pay.
Well said. I hate divorce. It is so devastating to all involved but especially to children. I told my husband if he ever leaves me I am going with him. ;)
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