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| Subject: The absurd: OZschwitz mother 'guilty' of taking son out of country Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:58 pm | |
| A mother who sparked an international search after she absconded with her son to Europe has been found guilty of taking the child out of the country without permission.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, faced trial in the District Court in Sydney in October.
The woman was missing for three years until authorities arrested her overseas and re-introduced the child to his estranged father.
Representing herself, the mother told the jury she left her job, her home and her family in 2008 because she feared her small son was being sexually abused by his father.
She said she became suspicious when she returned from a business trip and the child told her, "Daddy was unkind to me".
"I still think I made the right decision," she said in her opening address.
"I didn't actually know I was breaking the law.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/20117241/mother-guilty-of-taking-son-out-of-country/ |
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