ハーグ条約 イタリア、オーストラリア
5 19
2012
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/matriarch-defiant-over-girls-in-hiding/story-e6freoof-1226359397472
時として、わたしには白人が本当に違う世界の人間に思えます。
っていうか、日本政府もこんな馬鹿げた条約に加盟しようとしているのだから、
これまたびっくり・・・・
ニュースなどでやっていた要約を載せます。
父親(イタリア人)が暴力者で、母親が子どもたちを連れオーストラリアへ逃げ帰ったそうです。
そこから父親が子どもたちを取り返すために裁判を起こしたそうです。
母親側の弁護士がDVを立証できず(子どもへのDVを立証しない限り返還になります)裁判所は子どもたちをイタリアにいる父親の元へ返還するように命じました。
子どもたちは父親に手紙を書いています。帰りたくない、オーストラリアでお母さんと一緒にいさせてほしい。お父さんといて安全だとは思わない。
そのようなことをもちろん裁判所?でも何度も訴えているのに、誰も自分たちの言っていることに耳を貸してくれないと言っています。
父親さえ気持ちを変えてくれたら全てが丸く収まる。でも父親は自分のプライドの為ならば子どもをも犠牲にするような人なのだそうです。
子どもたちを引き取ったとしても、仕事仕事で家にはいないし面倒を見るような人ではないそうです。
子どもたちを返還するはずだった日、母親の祖母が子どもたちを連れて隠れてしまいました。
裁判所のオーダーに反してしまったのでこのままだと1年未満の刑務所行きになってしまうというのに、
それを覚悟で子どもたちを守っているのだと思います。
自国民なのに裁判所は母親に対しかなりの酷評です。
隠したりさえしなければ、返還後に子どもたちに会えるようにする手続きができたと書いてありました。今は母親はイタリアへは行けません。アメリカへ渡ってしまった日本人のお母さんのように20年の刑務所行きになってしまうそうです。
A GREAT-grandmother is expected to remain in hiding today and defy a Family Court order to disclose the whereabouts of four sisters on the run to avoid being forced to return to Italy.
The 70-year-old woman took the girls aged between nine and 14 into hiding rather than hand them over to child safety officers to resume a shared custody arrangement in Italy with their father.
The girls' grandmother, a resident of Victoria, said her mother was focused on the well-being of the children, who the grandmother said were unanimously opposed to leaving their mother, schools and mates.
"I don't see her turning them over. She loves those children and will do anything to protect them," she said.
Six police officers yesterday searched the grandmother's rural property in Victoria but did not find the girls. Although ill, she has agreed to tell the court what she knows about the girls' whereabouts by phone.
Rural property search for fugitive girls
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"I don't know where the children are. Even if they give me truth serum that's all I will say," she said.
The great-grandmother is risking everything for her beloved great-granddaughters who have lived in Australia for two years.
Five days ago the perfectly spoken and well-dressed matriarch and Justice of the Peace was like any other doting grandparent.
Today she could face contempt of court charges as well as a possible year-long jail term for hiding her great granddaughters against court orders.
She has played a central role in the girls' lives.
She would drop the four Italian-born sisters to school several times a week, babysat regularly and spoke proudly of the school achievements of the four and their quick grasp of the English language.
The girl's father spoke out for the first time yesterday saying he loved his children deeply and accepted "all the joys and suffering that come with this responsibility".
"I ask my daughters to be strong. I am with you and I hope to hug you soon," he said in a statement.
"Today many are asking what I think of my ex wife and my daughters and what has been said about me. I express only sadness for the difficulties which they are currently experiencing"
The court has also ordered another aunt to testify today. She is expected to appear.
The girls' 32-year-old mother, a university student and part-time worker, spent yesterday consulting with her lawyers in Brisbane.
On Wednesday, the court ruled against the mother's appeal and ordered the children returned to Italy.
The parents differ over the terms of the children's move to Queensland in 2010.
The father claims he signed passports allowing the girls to go for a holiday and they were abducted. The mother claims the father understood the girls' move would be permanent and promised to move but changed his mind.

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