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Court holds that hiding of abducted child is parental neglect

An Illinois court has now decided that the mother?s hiding of her son for nearly two years in his grandmother's home, often in a crawl space behind a wall (in a space that was roughly 5 feet by 12 feet and about the height of a washing machine), amounted to neglect. The judge?s ruling, according to an AP report, was based partly on her agreement with a counselor's belief that the seclusion left the boy, now 7, with post-traumatic stress disorder. The judge?s ruling clears the way for a possible decision at a Jan. 8 hearing on custody or visitation arrangements for the boy.

Full post as published by Updates in Michigan Family Law on December 08, 2009 (boomark / email).