So, here we are with nowhere to turn. My daughter wants nothing more than to go home, but we’re stuck in Washington, due to a temporary custody restraining order (due to a pending/ongoing custody dispute) and being bullied by my ex and his proudly aggressive attorney. We’re dealing with his control issues, his explosive temper and his threats. The biggest problem of all: My daughter is in imminent danger of International parental child abduction. I don't use the term "imminent" loosely. I am not being dramatic or embellishing our situation. The danger is real.
According to the State Department website, my daughter is at high risk of being removed from the U.S. Some of the following is from their website and some, from our own situation, is what puts her at a uniquely higher risk:
1. She has dual citizenship. It wasn’t my doing, nor my choosing. These are just the cards she was dealt. Though she was born here in the U.S., her father is Moroccan, so she automatically has dual citizenship.
2. She doesn’t need a U.S. passport or even a Moroccan one to travel overseas. At her age, she can travel with her father on his Moroccan passport. This means that the U.S. Passport Issuance Alert Program is of no help to her.
3. Her father already has a history of absconding with her in 2011, after perpetrating court fraud in the state of Missouri. Details about that can be found in this entry: FLOYD'S CREDIBILITY (OR LACK OF)
4. He has tried twice to keep his passport from being seen by anyone. He didn’t even want his own Pennsylvania attorney to see it. I am very suspicious that there is something incriminating in it that would prove he had the intention of fleeing with her at some point during the past two years. These are those instances where he tried to keep it hidden:
—-A King County, WA judge ordered him to give my daughter back to me and also ordered him to hand over his passport to the court for a period of time. Floyd made no bones about verbally objecting to this at least twice, but the judge was firm, and informed him that a deputy would be coming to his residence to retrieve it. He got it back not long after that, and I’m sure nobody thought to look inside while they had it. They hadn’t wanted it to see what was in it, but merely to keep him from fleeing soon.
—-After my daughter was safely back at home in Pennsylvania, Floyd obtained a PA attorney so he could have a 24 hour visit with our daughter. A deal was made that he would leave his passport with his attorney for the duration of the visit. A couple days before the visit, Floyd car was supposedly broken into and his passport was supposedly stolen. Imagine that! Like a good boy (a boy who needed to prove his lie), he filed a police report. His lawyer informed him that the visit would not happen if the passport did not materialize. The next day, some wonderful random citizen found the stolen passport and turned it in, and the visit took place. Was I worried about the visit and creeped out by the passport shenanigans? Hell yes I was….and the entire visit was monitored.
5. He still has copies of the Missouri decree (the one he obtained fraudulently). No border agent or airline security personnel would doubt those papers. They would have no clue that they are not valid. Those papers say that he has full custody and I only have sporadic supervised visitation rights. With those papers in hand, he could glide onto an international flight or a cruise ship or the Canadian border with ease. I called the State Department to confirm this. They agreed that, yes, there was no way to stop him from doing that. Who would realize that the order had been quickly quashed and that he is NOT supposed to be removing her from the country? Most likely, nobody would.
6. He has become more and more fervent about his religious undertakings and is firm about his duty to raise Ava as a Muslim. He has no family or close ties in the U.S. All his family and numerous close friends live in various Muslim countries. He has also lived in numerous different countries, both Muslim and European for years while he was on the run from the Moroccan government. He has told our daughter that she will be going to live with his mother in Morocco. Also, he has an old friend from his Libyan oil field days who is now a billionaire (and is very political). Floyd has mentioned more than once that this friend wants him and my daughter to move overseas where he (the rich friend) can take care of them.
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