Tag Archives: Being soft on Poland

American father looses his daughter to Russian wife.

Posted on February 11, 2012 | Leave a comment
A crying girl with her father

Photo by Oleg Sidorenko under Creative Commons 2.0 License

The story of Joshua Izzard is  very typical: as he traveled to Rome, his Russian wife decided to “return” to her homeland. Besides two suitcases, she took their daughter, the “burgeoning chip” in the war with her husband.

Joshua’s story is not different of thousands of others. Among other examples of  unresolved cases of parental abductions, the article mentions our “own” Gerardo Serrano. His son Mycah, was abducted to Poland by the mother of the boy 13 years ago. Yes, Mycah is almost adult (he is 17), and to this day blames his father for …. the abduction. Mycah, is very angry at his father, and does not believe in parental abduction syndrome.

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Polish corrupt judge rejects application for abducted children from Canada

Posted on January 20, 2012 | 2 Comments

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, Continue reading →

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2008 US State Department Compliance Report is out.

Posted on May 13, 2008 | Leave a comment

My last story was on the 2007 Compliance (or rather lack of) Report on Hague Convention Cases prepared by the US State Department. I didn’t realize (the time flies so fast) that the 2008 report was about to be released. Well, I found it today on the State Department web site.

As expected Poland as usual was listed in the top of shame list of countries with a pattern of non-compliance. What does need to do to qualify in such a distinction? Well, the country (such as Poland) has to fail in 2 out of 3 compliance areas:

1. Central Authority performance

2. Judicial performance

3. Law Enforcement performance.

It is almost impossible to fail all free (as the report concludes), and Honduras was the only country that was able to achieve that kind of “excellence” in lawlessness. Continue reading →

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2006 United States Report on Hague Convention Compliance

Posted on January 22, 2008 | Leave a comment

The latest report published by the U.S. Department of State was issued in April of 2007. Poland was listed as one of 7 countries demonstrating pattern of noncompliance (one step below the “grand prize winner” of this report – Honduras.

In secion about Poland the U.S. State Department writes: Continue reading →

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