I am saddened , but not surprised, to hear that Polish court rejected yet another application under Hague Convention International law to return abducted children of Steven Watkins to Poland by their mother. This pattern of blind Polish nationalism during international custody cases is a typical shameful occurrence.
Polish authorities fail to understand that child abductions are real crime. To this day, Poland does NOT recognize parental abductions as crimes. Pathetic regimes of many previous Polish governments for years promised to change this situation, yet nothing has changed. But they DO make really loud noises about visa free traveling to United States.
I presume that the father has still the option to appeal to the second level court, but the children have been already brainwashed after over 2 years of legal feed dragging by Polish judicial system of [in]justice.
Here is link to the blog of Stephen Watkins with the latest news about his children. You may want to follow him on Twitter and Facebook as well.
the mother has rights TOO!
btw this site is openly and outrageously anti-polish – what does that act of hatred have to do with the abduction which is a private family tragedy ?
Anti Polish? NO, only anti Polish corruption. Nothing more, nothing less. You represent a typical mentality of Polish “we are the best, we have no faults” crowd. But life proofs otherwise. A lot of Poles from Poland fail to recognize that corruption in their country only makes their lives worse. Corrupt judges, prosecutors, police, and politicians are the cause that many of Poles leave Poland to settle somewhere else.
BTW, it is NOT a personal issue if a government signs a convention and later decides to ignore it. IF you believe that child kidnappings are not a big deal, then…. one of these days similar “personal” issue may become your own experience. Maybe then,you will see what others say. This is NOT an issue of mothers vs fathers, it is an issue of kidnapped children by one of the parents, who happen to be both mothers and fathers. Taking a child by one parent without a consent by the other is not a “return to a homeland”, it is a kidnapping. If I used your logic, murdering somebody one could also describe as “performing a very late term abortion”. I hope you do not support this type of nonsense.