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Source: Irish Independent
Out of Africa: Father reveals his amazing rescue of snatched son (7)
GERALDINE GITTENS – 27 JANUARY 2014
A father - whose son was abducted by his mother and taken to Africa - has revealed his desperate and dramatic crusade to successfully bring his son back home.
Richard Quarry's son Ethan (7) was snatched by his mother Elizabeth Daka during Easter last year and she took him to Zambia.
And Richard has spent the last nine months desperately trying to get his son back home. He had sole custody of Ethan at the time he was taken.
"It was just something that I didn't see coming,” he told independent.ie this morning.
“When you're a normal parent, you put your kids first and you would never do that to a kid - remove them from their surroundings like that."
"Ethan lived with my girlfriend and me and her two daughters. His mum had access to see him every week for a day and a half."
"At Christmas time, we'd enter into an informal arrangement where she might have him for Christmas morning one year, and he'd be with me for the next one.”
“This particular time was Easter and she had asked me could she take him for three days. She collected him on Easter Sunday and the arrangement was that I'd collect him three days later. And before I was to collect him, I rang and the phone didn't work."
"That was on the Wednesday, and on the Thursday my mother got a call from her to say that she was in Zambia with Ethan."
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He rang his estranged wife to tell her that the Christmas presents he'd sent Ethan would be at the Irish embassy in Lusaka. Richard had done this before, so Ms Daka did not suspect a thing.
The personal investigator was then able to trace Ethan.
Richard then bravely walked into his son's school and took his son from his class.
Richard headed straight for the Zimbabwean border where he was grilled for three-and-a-half hours, because his son's Irish passport did not have an entry stamp on it.
Read the rest of the story at Irish Independent
Source: Irish Independent
Out of Africa: Father reveals his amazing rescue of snatched son (7)
GERALDINE GITTENS – 27 JANUARY 2014
A father - whose son was abducted by his mother and taken to Africa - has revealed his desperate and dramatic crusade to successfully bring his son back home.
Richard Quarry's son Ethan (7) was snatched by his mother Elizabeth Daka during Easter last year and she took him to Zambia.
And Richard has spent the last nine months desperately trying to get his son back home. He had sole custody of Ethan at the time he was taken.
"It was just something that I didn't see coming,” he told independent.ie this morning.
“When you're a normal parent, you put your kids first and you would never do that to a kid - remove them from their surroundings like that."
"Ethan lived with my girlfriend and me and her two daughters. His mum had access to see him every week for a day and a half."
"At Christmas time, we'd enter into an informal arrangement where she might have him for Christmas morning one year, and he'd be with me for the next one.”
“This particular time was Easter and she had asked me could she take him for three days. She collected him on Easter Sunday and the arrangement was that I'd collect him three days later. And before I was to collect him, I rang and the phone didn't work."
"That was on the Wednesday, and on the Thursday my mother got a call from her to say that she was in Zambia with Ethan."
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He rang his estranged wife to tell her that the Christmas presents he'd sent Ethan would be at the Irish embassy in Lusaka. Richard had done this before, so Ms Daka did not suspect a thing.
The personal investigator was then able to trace Ethan.
Richard then bravely walked into his son's school and took his son from his class.
Richard headed straight for the Zimbabwean border where he was grilled for three-and-a-half hours, because his son's Irish passport did not have an entry stamp on it.
Read the rest of the story at Irish Independent