Three-year-old boy detained in Morocco, 53-year-old man charged in Fiuggi
State Police in Fiuggi have charged a 53-year-old man with unlawfully withholding his three-year-old son abroad without the mother's consent. The child was in Morocco.
Child abduction abroad
According to questure.poliziadistato.it, officers from the Fiuggi Public Security Commissariat charged a 53-year-old man to the Judicial Authority with the offence of child abduction and unlawful withholding abroad. The report was filed by the child's mother, a 40-year-old woman of Ivorian origin, on 8 November.
The incident dates back to July, when the mother had temporarily entrusted her three-year-old son to her former partner so she could travel to Côte d'Ivoire for property matters. The agreement stipulated that the man would take the child to Morocco, where he resides for work purposes, and return him to Italy in August when the mother returned. However, according to the woman's account, the son was never returned and the man continued to withhold him abroad without her consent.
Police activated urgent procedures to verify the child's condition and made telephone contact with the father, who was temporarily in Rome for work commitments. The man accepted the invitation to present himself at the commissariat, providing a different account of the timing and reasons for the arrangement, but confirming that the child was in Morocco, cared for by a trusted babysitter.
Border database checks confirmed that father and son had left Italy on 9 July from Fiumicino airport. The 53-year-old was referred to the Public Prosecutor's Office in Frosinone. The suspect remains under suspicion of a criminal offence: his position will be subject to judicial review and only after a final judgment can he be definitively found guilty.
Source: Google News IT — Crime (it)