Another victim of patriarchal oppression

[badbabysitter]

A 34-year-old father of two has been sentenced to eight years in prison after he kidnapped his six and seven-year-old sons, took them to Tunisia, and told their mother to pay him 170,000 francs ($182,000) if she wanted to get her children back.

Janine Schoch, 30, said she had told Swiss authorities on several occasions that she was afraid her husband Issam would follow up on threats to kidnap her children, newspaper Blick reports.

“I did everything in my power to prevent the abduction,” she told Blick. “I reported it to child protection authorities, but they thought I was a hysterical woman who wanted to discriminate against a poor foreigner."

But Schoch, who lives in Winterthur, near Zurich, had her worst fears realized on August 22nd 2010, when Issam [not his real name] took the children and flew them to his home country.

Eight days after the kidnapping, Schoch received an e-mail from Issam. He said she would be permitted to move in with him and be with her children again if she agreed to send him 170,000 francs.

“It was as if he wanted to sell me my own children,” she said.

In October 2010, Issam was arrested during a trip to Morocco and extradited to Switzerland.

"I could not continue living in Switzerland,” the 34-year-old Tunisian told the judge. “I was treated like a dirty dog by my wife, her family, and the migration authorities,” he explained, adding he was not serious about the money he requested. “I am a decent person,” Issam added.

On Thursday, he was jailed by a Wintherthur court on charges of kidnapping, attempted extortion and issuing threats.

Although Issam is already in prison, Schoch has not yet been able to recover her two sons, who live with their grandparents in the Tunisian city of Jendouba. They have custody of the children following a verdict from a Tunisian court.

Still Schoch feels confident that she will soon have her sons back with her in Switzerland.

"When the judge announced the verdict, I felt the children very close to me. I realized it was a reality that I have a chance to get them back,” she told Blick.

Schoch met her husband in 2002 in Turkey, where they both worked as children’s entertainers.

The couple married and move to Frauenfeld, where their first son was born in 2004. A year later, their second child came.

“Then it all started,” Schoch recounted. Her husband began to pray, went to the mosque every Friday and removed his gold wedding ring. He insisted on her adhering to Islamic customs, but she refused.

Schoch said she initiated a separation after he started teaching his children to spit at Christian churches and the Swiss cross.

She hasn't seen her children in a year and a half.

 

[badbabysitter]

oh wait.. maybe it was a bad person and I should blame it on them being a bad person

naw.... lets blame it on the gender.. because that in no way will make it look like I have serious issues with people for the crime of having different genitalia

 

[busybody..]

Bitch deserves it

She married MOOSEFUCK

What did she expect?

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

http://www.theflorentine.net/articles/article-view.asp?issuetocId=7229

The fight to find Florentine kids
(ISSUE NO. 151/2011 / OCTOBER 27, 2011)
Divorce leads to child abduction
On October 14, Italian and Florence newspapers reported that Marianne Grin, a US-Russian citizen who has lived in Florence for over 10 years, had abducted her children over the summer. Grin was being divorced by her U.S. husband in Florence, and, after having lost custody of the couple's four children in 2010, she allegedly kidnapped them and took them to Russia.

Three of the four children were born in Florence, and all were raised and attend schools here. Grin uprooted them from their schools, friends and daily lives in Florence, and taking them to another country, Russia, where they have absolutely no family or friends. Moreover, doing so without without permission from their father, who is their legal custodian, is an international crime. However, despite this, the laws of different jurisdictions and geographical locations make international child abduction stemming from parental disputes among the most complicated cases to resolve.

A 45-year-old lawyer educated at Harvard, Grin disappeared from Florence in late August with the children, all between the ages of 5 and 14. She is known to be in Saint Petersburg but has denied their father or the U.S. authorities any communication with the children. She has also clashed with the U.S. consulate officials who are helping to find and communicate with the kids.

Meanwhile, the Russian press has come to her defence. In an article on September 27, the Pravda newspaper described her as a ‘courageous' mother who took her children away from an allegedly ‘sadistic and violent' father. The father, however, claims to have proof that these accusations of violence against him and all of his familiy members, including his new fiance, are part of Grin's larger strategy to convince the courts and Russian authorities to protect her and her children. Although Russia has recently signed the Convention on International Child Abduction, for ‘bureaucratic reasons' the legislation is still waiting to be ratified. The children's father and his family fear Grin has taken the kids to Russia, not because she has family or contacts there, but because it may be easier to keep the kids away from their family and lives here in Florence.