And why are we to listen to the Hague? Has Obama bowed to them too?
I hope they treat him better than Lennox.
“And why are we to listen to the Hague? Has Obama bowed to them too?”
It appears they were living in Ireland when they split, and had a joint custody arrangement set up by an Irish judge (seems reasonable).
She decided she didn’t like it so she left with the boy and came to the US (keeping him here, perhaps the real reason why he lived most of his life in the US)
Since she broke the law in Ireland by not abiding by the reasonable custody arrangement ordered by the Irish judge, she faces consequences if she goes to Ireland.
So nobody is mistreating this woman, she simply wanted it her way, the whole way, but got herself in a pickle. I’m guessing the father will be more reasonable and find a way for the kid to visit his mom, but that’s up to him.
The lesson to be learned here? If you’re a US citizen never,*ever* have a kid with someone who’s a citizen of *any* foreign country unless you’re prepared to have that child taken from this country without your consent.
As presented...only one parent can win here. A pox on the Hague court but I’m glad a male finally one a custody case.
This woman broke a court order and took this child from his father and kept him from his father. She should have filed through the courts for relocation and a long distance custody and if that didn’t work she could have left the child with the father or stayed in Ireland.
Evidentally, she felt what she wanted to do trumped what was best for the child and the father and decided to thumb her nose at a legal court order. These women think that they have a golden womb or something and get to make all the decisions for everyone and then cry foul when they don’t get their way.
a co worker is engaged in a brutal custody batte and divorce...the man is not even an American citizen and has a head injury and other issues yet he has money in France from his head injury and using every penny to bankrupt this woman....the baby cries whenever she is out of sight...
yet, he has more custody of the baby girl than she does...often strangers who the mother does not know...male strangers...pick the baby up for the "daddy's" time....
Oh yes, and that article leaves out that the mother has dual Irish/American citizenship.
The way we’re going the child might be better off in Ireland than Chicago.
I’ve never understood couples who choose to just live together and not marry. I further don’t understand why they choose to propagate under such conditions. Nothing good can possibly come out of this.
I visited Ireland in 2010....What a great country. I hope he is able to visit the Guinness Factory when he gets older and I did see the St. Patrick’s Day Parade while there but it wasn’t anything like the New York St. Patrick’s Day parade which surprised me...It was much more like the Mardi gras parade in New Orleans. I did see the Blarney Stone but did not kiss it because of all the rumors I heard about the stone and what people do to it.
You know what is wrong with this picture?
The dad is only doing this to hurt the mom. Dads simply do not have the time to spend and they do it to avoid paying child support.
Sounds like Mom did pretty much the same thing as the foreign parents, usually fathers, who violate an American custody order and flee with the child to their home country.
I see no particular reason why this should be accepted simply because the person violating the court order is an American.
Good for the father, this woman, like so many others, was playing games with the kid, its not often that the father wins out in such cases with feminist courts always stacked against them, so once again good for him!
“Annie Redmond · Works at Fado Irish Pub Chicago
First of all, American courts have not made a final ruling on this matter and whether or not Ireland even had jurisdiction over the case, without which the Irish courts could not have made such a incomprehensible decision to punish her and Jack. She only participated in the Irish courts to try and come to an agreement with the father. Of course she wanted to bring these issues up in court, but, as I’m sure you don’t know, she was not allowed to testify to anything “negative” about the case after the father slammed her with lies for over two hours. Her right to defend herself was stripped away by a judicial system that had no right to hear the case in the first place. The Hague, which he filed for with falsified information over 4 years later, deals with putting the child in it’s place of habitual residence. His residence has been Chicago his entire 5 and half years of life bar a few short months he spent as an infant. When she left in July 2007, she had every right as his mother to leave with him. An unwed father by Irish law has no legal claim to a child. I hope this clears this up for you and this is a tragedy for our family and all Americans should be outraged that a poor child has been uprooted and sent away to people he barely knows. You have every right to your opinion and we have every right as Americans citizens to live in our own country. “
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/jack-mary-redmond-international-custody-162021725.html
Funny I heard no outcries from the immigration crowd on this case