Supreme Court Ruling Gives Parental Child Abduction Victims New Hope – Society

Angelia gained custody of the child when she separated from her Filipino citizen Teodoro Fernandez Carluen in 2018. However, two years later, the boy, identified as EJ, was picked up on his way to school in Bogor.

The school bus driver, she said, called to tell her that EJ had been forcibly taken away by someone claiming to be his father. She immediately reported the incident to Jakarta police, but officers said they could not charge Teodoro with kidnapping because he was EJ’s biological father.

“Instead, they filed a lesser charge of child abuse and neglect,” Angelia said The Jakarta Post She recently added that she has not known about EJ’s whereabouts since then as Teodoro and his family have cut all ties with her.

“I don’t know what country EJ is in right now, I don’t know what he looks like now, and I don’t even know if he’s still alive. Who will put him to bed? Who will look after him.” whether he is sick? I have no idea,” she said.

Although she had felt like a “zombie” since EJ’s disappearance, Angelia said she continued to do everything she could think of to get her 11-year-old son back.

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