This is Khalid. He is a radical Muslim who is so bat-shit crazy that he was banned from all the mosques in and around Seattle (or so I have been told). He is a friend of my daughter's birth father ("Floyd").
When Floyd perpetrated court fraud and service of process fraud in 2010 and 2011, he snatched Ava from our home state of Pennsylvania and fled to his home in Seattle.
Floyd was quite unhappy that he could not leave Ava in a daycare (because she kept telling everyone to call 911). He also did not enroll her in school (though she had been attending Kindergarten in Pennsylvania) because he had intended to relocate her overseas as soon as he got his paperwork in order.
Anyway, he was forced to leave her with this scary man while he ran his mysterious errands and did his "coffee shop internet activities" -- he preferred doing most of his internet use away from his own home, even though he had his own IP. He has done this for many years.
It breaks my heart to hear her talk about Khalid. She was forced to go there and take naps with Khalid while Floyd ran around doing who-knows-what. Floyd was unemployed and on welfare and living in government housing, so he sure wasn't going to work. He was finished with college, so he wasn't going there. I believe that part of the answer to his whereabouts during those weeks lies inside his oh-so-secret passport and his heavy backpack of secret papers that he carries everywhere -- even to the bathroom. (Unfortunately, the family court commissioner in "X" County, Washington who last saw us in court didn't think it was necessary to see his passport....despite his shady kidnapping history.)
Ava is only able to draw and write about her experiences in bits and pieces because it forces her to go back to uncomfortable places. Occasionally, however, she wants to express her feelings this way.
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