Mom Caught after 6 Years on the Run: 15 Year-Old Daughter Returned to Father
ALSO: Update & Call to Action in UK Mother in Jail Case
Heather was caught and arrested in North Carolina last weekend after an incredible six year run in hiding, garnering international MSM attention.
Unfortunately, her daughter, Kayla, now 15 years-old, was returned to her “rightful owner” much like a stolen car would be, no questions asked. At 15, she should have a say as to what happens to her, but not in Family Court, where children are still treated as property of the father.
Heather posted a $250K bond in Buncombe County and as was released on her own recognizance. She was told to turn herself in appear in Kane County where she would be released on additional bail. Instead, they threw her in jail and held her without bond.
Could it be that the OBN [old boy network] just can’t stand the fact that a woman was able to get out from under the control of her ex for so long and annoyingly be able to walk free after posting the exorbitant bond meant to keep her incarcerated?
Likely…
Can’t have these uppity women who dare challenge male authority in the family by fleeing to keep or protect their children walking around free. That would look bad and send the wrong message to other women who may try and do similar uppity things.
Heather’s attorney was eventually able to get her released conditional on her wearing an ankle monitor.
CUSTODY CASE
As usual Heather’s flight into hiding was preceded by a Family Court judge giving sole custody to the father. It is unknown which judge or whether her daughter had disclosed abuse. She was 9 years old at the time.
Not much is known about the custody case except what has been cursorily reported in the media. Heather had a short romantic relationship with the father and left him shortly after Kayla was born. Heather had primary custody. According to local reporting, the father went on to marry a woman with two little girls.
Kayla had primary custody until early 2017 when the father was given sole custody, with the power to make all legal and medical decisions for Kayla. The father claims the reason he filed for and got sole custody was that Heather had been “messing with [Kayla’s] medical and health issues”.
This is suspicious and raises red flags.
In typical Custody Crisis cover-up-of-paternal-abuse cases, judges will give sole custody to fathers so mothers cannot bring the child to a doctor or therapist to whom they may disclose abuse, especially sexual abuse. In many cases, the mother is overtly threatened that she will not see her children again, at least not unsupervised, if she dares bring them to someone not approved by the court/father, i.e. an insider who will go along with the cover up.
It is impossible to know yet whether this is what happened in Heather’s case but it all sure stinks. “Messing with medical issues” is vague and does not rise to the level of taking a child away from her primary bond.
What is interesting, though, is that her ex became friends with Lashada’s ex—the mother whose case was profiled last month in: “Mom Turns Herself in after 3 Years”. Lashada had a lot of corroborating evidence her daughters were being sexually abused and she was kept from taking them to the kids’ trusted therapist who had written a letter to the court confirming the father’s abuse.
Lashada’s case also involved overzealous law enforcement working with the father to ratchet up the search for her, stirring up a media frenzy. Are men joining together behind the scenes to swap ideas for catching escaped exes?
MSM SPIN
There has been a lot of international media on Heather’s “capture” and Kayla being “found alive” and “found safe”. As if that is such a miracle. They don’t mention the incongruity that if Heather was such a danger, why would Kayla be happily shopping for clothes with her mom when caught?
Last year a missing kids photo was briefly shown on an episode of “Unsolved Mysteries”, which apparently led to her arrest.
As usual MSM is spinning the story as Heather being an evil kidnapper, with her mug shot front and center (an old but obvious spin tactic) and age-progressed photos of Kayla by NCMEC [National Center for Missing and Exploited Children].
They all report how fantastic it is the awful “child abductor” mother has been caught and the poor abducted daughter returned to her wonderful father. They never comment on the fact that he gives no good reason for having taken Kayla away from her mother where she wanted to be.
Why not even raise the possibility the mother may have had a good reason to flee, something other than just having lost custody? Or that even a mother “just” losing custody unjustly is a justifiable reason to flee. After all, for most mothers and children, they are each other’s most important bond, hence most important part, of their lives.
But that does not fit the patriarchal narrative. And it’s not good for the public to know how common it is that Family Court judges switch custody to fathers who are abusive or do not deserve it.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, this is what Family Court does to mothers:
Heather faces two counts of child abduction. It is unclear why there are two charges when only one child was abducted. Likely a way to trump up charges to get a longer prison term.
Heather’s next hearing is on June 14th at the Kane County Courthouse at 9am in Room 305 with Judge David Kliment.
Watch this space for updates. If you are interested in attending the hearing, email womenscoalitionintl@gmail.com subject: heather
UPDATE & CALL TO ACTION
UK MOTHER FACING 5 YEARS NEEDS EMAILS TO JUDGE
In March, WCN&V posted a column about a British mother who was jailed without bail, facing a long prison term, for breaching a gag order by posting on social media about how Family Court had given her children to her abusive ex. Some of you wrote letters to her in jail.
For the full story see: Mother Instigates Own Arrest to Expose Family Court Injustice. At the time, the mother’s name was not known due to UK reporting restrictions, so we used the alias of “Kate” but we now know her real name is Anna and she is set to be sentenced to up to 5 years in prison on June 7th at Newcastle Crown Court.
SUMMARY
Anna’s daughter disclosed sexual abuse and there was much corroborating evidence. As usual, custody was switched to the abusive father and he was allowed to alienate her daughter and son from her.
She became very vocal on social media about the injustice being done to her and other mothers. Although she has been jailed for short stints before, recent posting landed her in jail without bond. She was found guilty in March of breaching the gag order, despite her now adult daughter testifying her father had sexually abused her and she had been wrongly taken from Anna.
The prosecutors claimed her daughter has been brainwashed by her mother, but actually the father was unable to brainwash her to recant the abuse. Anna’s son was successfully brainwashed by the father and completely alienated from Anna.
EMAIL JUDGE PRINCE
Please take a moment to email the judge to ask him to sentence Anna to time served. This is an opportunity to give back to a mother who has so bravely spoken out for all mothers devastated by Family Court over the course of the last 12 years.
You can copy and paste or write your own. Let’s flood Judge Prince with emails! [BTW this is a therapeutic way to vent some of your family court anger.]
Email: enquiries.newcastle.crowncourt@justice.gov.uk
Subject: Anna Kornas: time served
Judge Prince,
I am with Women’s Coalition International and we are asking you to sentence Anna Kornas to time served on June 7th. She has been jailed long enough for simply having posted the truth about what she was subjected to in Family Court.
There is a crisis of mothers around the world who are unable to maintain custody or protect our children. I am one of those mothers. I am speaking out. #WeStandwithAnna
Thank you
NOTE: You can cc: womenscoalitionintl@gmail.com if you want to let us know you participated.
*THANKS to all the mothers who emailed Kate/Anna after the last post.
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I think when Heather's ex says, "Messing with medical and health issues" he's implying Munchausen syndrome by proxy. It's his way of falsely saying she's crazy and endangering their child. The family court judge then grants him custody. I believe men are joining forces to exchange ideas. It's not just family court judges granting ex-husbands child custody, but they are giving ex-boyfriends, stepfathers and rapists innocent children.
Main stream media is reporting irresponsibly. Police are going along with the judge. They are part of the problem. These reporters and the police don't have the facts. They don't seem to care. These people become part of the abusive father's cult-like following. They are complicit in the abuse and should face consequences. Mothers should not be punished for trying to protect their children. Heather and Anna do not belong in jail.
Many mothers become zombie-like. They become part of the walking dead when they have been separated from their children. When you know your child is in danger and you cannot protect them, it's torture. Many of these children are not eating or sleeping well. They are traumatized and neglected. Abusive fathers swoop in and take advantage of their emotional rawness. Many mothers that are not crazy or suicidal become despondent and then suicidal after losing their children. Abusive men want to control. What better to control than a vulnerable child. These abusive fathers weaponize.their children. They use their children to control and punish their ex's. Family court judges enable abusive fathers. Family court judges continually violate the rights of women and children. Family court judges abuse their power and must lose it.
Me 2. Ex was not part of our daughters life at all moved away had another child. Didn't have much contact with child at all his choice child was raised around his family. Who stayed in the area father filled for visitation age 7 she went 1 weekend a month for over a year then refused to go. Courts order therapy for child therapist fills a cps report on father for reason child. Doesn't want to go. Courts order reunification therapy but due to mother and father not agreeing to. One courts appoint one mother can't afford. Why reunification after therapist filled cps. Report based, on what child said don't understand that.. What I do understand is fathers girlfriend. Now wife brother is a cop.. Mother lost custody after being primary for first 10 years keep from any contact with child for 3 months courts saying I was alienating even though I had provided proof the father had recently invited child to his wedding and then sent a text that he wasn't going to come get her just a month before she was removed from her home and school and community she had lived her whole. Life moved 3 hours away with father she had refused to see for 2 years. Mother than had to pay for supervised visits after a 3 month no contact order when I had no. Crimes other than judge saying I was alienating father. I want justice I want the family court to pay for violating my civil rights and my child civil. Rights as well..