About 10
years ago a man named Michael Shannon had sent his four year old son and his 10
month old son to visit their mother in New York. Unfortunately he did not know
that he would never see his children again. Their mother had actually taken his
children to Egypt and because the United States has little to no jurisdiction
in Egypt he has not been able to see his children for about 10 years. They have tried to get his kids back to him
but the Egyptian government just laughed at them. They have not signed any
documents pertaining to international child abduction.
When I first
read this story I was seriously shocked that anyone could ever do that to a
person that you had children with. This woman
has literally kidnapped her children. They were originally in the father of the
children’s custody and she took them away from him, he hasn’t seen his children
in over 10 years. I don’t understand how someone could do that to another
person. His kids could have been his entire world, you have no idea and she
just took that away from them. What I also do not understand is why it isn’t that
easy to get his children back. I don’t get why the hell Egypt doesn’t have any
laws against international kidnapping. It just goes to show how much the world doesn’t
really care about each other. For all we know the mother could be a complete
psychopath, not to mention her behavior of taking them away to Egypt kind of
makes the statement above more believable. I think that they need to make laws
against international kidnapping for the sake of children across the world. This
is a rare case but who is to say that something like this won’t happen again? I
can almost guarantee that it will happen in different countries as well and
they need to change it for the well-being of the children across the world.
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