'I didn't abduct my child. I just want my daughter to be brought up in Ireland'

THE American dream has turned sour for one young mother as she spends the festive period in a legal limbo, unable to take her child home to Ireland.

Ciara (not her real name) was branded a child abductor after she failed to bring her three-year-old daughter Lauren back to the martial home on the west coast of the United States after a visit to her family in Ireland. It was during this trip that her husband telephoned her to say their marriage was over and he was filing for divorce.

Ciara decided there was nothing left for her in the States and she and Lauren would stay permanently in Ireland.

However, her husband issued proceedings under the Hague Convention demanding that the girl be brought back to the US.

By Breda Heffernan ©Independent.ie

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