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Hi guys,
My sons mother announced two weeks ago she was taking my son to Albania to see her boyfriend . I have a court order saying she must provide travel documents, and give me at least 4 weeks notice, she obviously did neither. Her and her boyfriend are both non UK residents, and could basically flee at anytime hence my worry.
And so she turned her phone off and off she went, meaning I had no idea of his whereabouts, and no way to contact him .
I had to call the police, now we find she has come back but the MET child abduction team are involved, and she is being pulled in tomorrow for a recorded interview . The police have been great with me to be fair.
My question to you is, what can they do to her? How can I ensure my boy is safe from abduction ??
Thanks
Mark
Hi There,
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I don't know too much about this sort of thing, but I would imagine they would have the ability to impose a ban on travelling with your son, then if she breaks it, she should get picked up at the airport when she presents with hers and your sons passport.
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As said though this is just a guess as I have no knowledge of this.
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GTTS
Cheers GTTS,
I hope this is the case, she's told me I'm not seeing him now as I've contacted the police, so another Christmas without him !
I'll let you know when I hear from the police, but they where very p*ssed off with her and for a change really nice and understanding to me as the non resident parent.
Mark
Good luck and fingers crossed they deal with her.
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GTTS
Yeah that's what I thought, but shes been interviewed today under caution, and they mentioned removing the passport, and charging her?
Just waiting on a call from the detective. I'm surprised how seriously they have taken it, as I thought it would be, " he's back safe, so its up to you now to go to court"
Well, they can deal with that side of things but I think you are going to need to take it to court to get the contact reinstated and a water tight order preventing her running off again.
Its so wrong, so I have to pay another £200 for someone to wrap her knuckles and off we go again.
Hopefully the police find out whats really been going on and charge her with something, and say Hey come get your kid ! Imagine !
Not just a knuckle rapping with these issues I would imagine!
I would get an application in and present the court with all the police evidence as they're likely to have finished their enquiries by the time you get before a judge. The police can't remove your child from her or enforce the court order.
Morning,
So the officer dealing with her has gone off and hasn't rang me! Typical !
But I do know that she has been given an official caution by the police, I'm just waiting to hear back from the officer to know exactly what they have done.
But she will take no notice of it, and I know I will still have to go back to court, but at least its all in my favour.
Mark
Just had this fro m the family link worker, one thing I do know is a Strategy meeting is bad !
Just to update you on my contact with Ms ......... I conducted a home visit on Monday 12/12/16 and I have met with both Ms ........ and ....... ........ looked well and he stated he had enjoyed school.
I went over some of the recent issues with Ms ........ and advised she sees the police the next day as scheduled between her and the police already. I went over the family support plan with Ms ......... and she signed this as she's is agreement.
I will share the support plan with you tomorrow when I'm in the office and we can have further discussion after you've looked at it.
I know Ms ........ attended her appointment with the police. There has been a strategy discussion between the police and my manager. The police will share further information with us to help us determine what further action to take going forward.
Have you been able to come to an agreement as to contact this week since you missed last week's?
Many thanks
Hmmm....if she's had a caution that will probably be it I'm afraid.
A strategy meeting doesn't necessarily mean anything bad, it's more about multi agency information sharing, perhaps prior to some kind of child protection plan being put in place.
As Yoda says, it's the family court that would enforce any existing order or any decisions to transfer residency of the child, although if things are bad enough, Children's Services can apply to court for an order to remove a child from a parents care.
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