international parental kidnapping crime act
Highlights
- The guilty person is from Vadodara, Gujarat
- Arrested on arrival in UK
- Woman went to court for not returning to America
International Parental Kidnapping: A US court has convicted an Indian-American citizen of ‘international parental kidnapping’ for taking his US-born child to India and then not bringing him back to his mother in the US. Amit Kumar Kanubhai Patel of Vadodara was convicted last week of “International Parental Kidnapping” by US District Judge Renee Marie Bamb at Camden Federal Court in New Jersey after a five-day trial. Patel previously lived in Edison, New Jersey. If found guilty of ‘international parental kidnapping’, there is a provision of a maximum sentence of three years and a maximum fine of $250,000. Patel will be sentenced in the case in November this year.
US Attorney Philip R. Salinger reported Monday that Patel has been convicted of child abduction, obstructing the rights of the child’s mother and failing to bring the child back to the US. According to documents filed in the case and evidence from the trial, Patel had a relationship with the child’s mother and lived together in New Jersey from August 2015 to July 2017. Both never married. They had a baby boy in November 2016. According to the child’s mother, Patel wanted to take the child to India and reunite it with his family and get a DNA test done. Patel said it was necessary to get his family property.
The case went to New Jersey Superior Court
Patel also asked the child’s mother to get the child’s India visa. Patel had asked the child’s mother to tell the court that they had mutually agreed to protect the child. Patel had asked her to tell the court that she was unemployed and could not take care of the child as she was not allowed to work. In May 2017, Patel took the child’s mother to New Jersey Superior Court, so that all rights related to the child’s protection could be given only to her. According to the child’s mother, most of the hearing in the case was conducted in the English language. That too without a translator. The woman claims that she spoke very little English during this time. Mother answered all the questions as per Patel’s instructions. There was also no lawyer to represent him during the hearing.
given all the rights of protection
The New Jersey Superior Court granted Patel all child custody rights (sole custody) only on the basis of the child’s mother’s consent, but also left the mother open to the option of requesting joint custody in the future. . Following the court’s order, Patel took a visa to India for himself and the child and went to India, telling the mother that he would return in two weeks or a month. Patel took the child to India in July 2017 and a few days later called the mother and said that she would never bring the child back to the US. The child’s mother then sought legal advice and again moved to New Jersey Superior Court.
was arrested in Britain
In October 2018, the New Jersey Superior Court directed Patel to bring the child to the US immediately. The mother’s lawyer e-mailed the family court order to Patel, but he did not come to the US with the child. Patel and the child left for the UK from India in October 2020. As soon as he reached there, Patel was arrested on the basis of the arrest request of America. A London court, after a hearing under the ‘Hague Convention’, ordered that it was in the best interest of the child to be sent back to his grandparents in India. Patel was extradited to the US in September 2021 to complete the trial against him.
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