02-07-2006, 10:47 AM
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Abduction and fathers' rights
http://www.hendersondispatch.com/art...ion/opin01.txt
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When children are abducted, the authorities scramble to recover them safe and sound.
Most of the time.
When children are kidnapped from a custodial parent, and that custodial parent is a man, sometimes it seems that bringing the abducting mother to justice and returning sons and daughters to their father's home is less a priority.
A Friday incident in North Carolina reminds us of another case that hits even closer to home.
The Associated Press reports that two girls abducted from their father by their mother in Ahoskie more than six years ago were recovered just this week after they were found in a car during a routine traffic stop - in Lillington, less than 175 miles away.
Joyce Linda Murray Steyne and her older brother picked up Steyne's three children on Dec. 17, 1999, at their father's home in Ahoskie. Steyne never brought them back, despite a court order, although apparently she didn't want all of the children; she reportedly soon abandoned her 16-year-old son at a motel in Roanoke Rapids and only kept the girls, then 8 and 6.
The FBI said Steyne will be charged with removal of minor children in violation of a custody order, and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Fair enough, it seems.
But we have to believe that if it was the father who took the children from their mother, a dragnet would've caught him long ago. The courts wouldn't simply have issued almost meaningless orders that are all but ignored by law enforcement and the courts themselves until a cop stumbles across kidnapped children - again, six years later in the same state - quite by happenstance.
Simply put, the law often fails fathers in custody disputes.
Witness the case of toddler Andy Hakes, who was taken from his father Jacob - son of Henderson's Molly Hakes - by the boy's mother. Andy's mother bounced between relatives' homes in Colorado and Arizona for six months, ignoring Virginia court orders to return her son to his custodial father. Though the Hakes family often had leads on where the boy was being kept, they said the authorities in those communities would flat-out tell them that they didn't want to get involved.
If Andy Hakes or the Steyne girls had been abducted by their fathers, it's far more likely that those men would've been hunted down and arrested in shorter order. When mothers steal their children from fathers, it seems at times like nobody's in any hurry to see that Daddy gets them back.
It's wrong to assume children are better off - or even safe - with their mothers, especially when those mothers are committing a criminal act in keeping them.
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father's have rights???!??!??!??!?!??!??!?!??!??!? lol/////?!??!?!??!???!?!?
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