Two girls abducted from Spain to Poland by their mother, have been ordered to be returned to their father by court in Suwalki, before the appeal process is finished.
Few thoughts on corruption in Poland and its effect on parental child abductions; case of Steven Watkins still not resolved.
What two days can bring! It is simply amazing. Up till not recently, the pages of Gazeta Wyborcza [let me call them GW from now on] were infested with articles of a yet another “poor” (but pretty and naturally Polish) mother, who “decided to return back to her native Poland”, and later to be “victimized […]
It seems that the Polish Courts found a way out to keep the children in Poland, even after the abducting parent was initially order to return the child back to their homes abroad.
After a 3rd instance appeals have been removed by the Polish legislature for the family disputes (divorces, custody cases, Hague Convention cases
), the Polish judges of the regional courts feel that ignoring the Hague Convention Law is a valid option, and
they (the judges) are not afraid to use it.