steveox
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Miami - A Miami-Dade circuit judge denied a series of motions in the custody case of a 4-year-old girl Monday, setting the stage for testimony to begin on whether the child should stay with her foster family or return to Cuba with her biological father.
Circuit Judge Jeri B. Cohen determined the girl's mother, who would like her to return to Cuba, lost custody when the mother did not follow through with a court-ordered plan. At the same time, Cohen ruled against a request by the father for immediate custody.
The biological father has promised his little girl an idyllic country life on a farm with playful animals and other children. The farm's location in Cuba and the father's desire to raise the girl there, however, have put a political twist on a complex custody case unfolding in Miami family court.
The father is fighting allegations by the Department of Children & Families that he is an unfit parent. The girl and her relatives are not being named to protect their privacy.
The situation is the latest international custody battle to draw comparisons to the Elián González case.
On Thanksgiving Day 1999, 5-year-old Elián was found clinging to an inner tube in the ocean off Fort Lauderdale. He had survived a shipwreck that killed his mother and several other Cuban refugees.
A seven-month custody battle between Elián's relatives and his Cuban father -- punctuated with daily demonstrations at the Miami relatives' home -- peaked with a dramatic federal raid there and the boy's reunion with his father. Father and son returned to Cuba in June 2000.
There are many differences between Elián and the latest case. The girl's mother is alive, although she relinquished custody of the girl and her 12-year-old half-brother, who was adopted by the family the siblings live with. Also, the case is being settled in the court system, not by government officials, and has not become a "political football" like Elián, said Cuban-American activist and attorney Pedro Freyre.
"It is being decided as Elián should have been ... instead of being decided in the streets of Miami," he said. "The fact pattern in this one is different and it just got handled differently from the beginning."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbcustody0827nbaug27,0,1171926.story?track=rss
Its Happening all over again!! But only this time its a 4 year old cuban girl in miami.But Now Bush is the president.Now if Bush does the right thing and keep the girl in america REPUBLICANS WILL WIN IN 2008.Its all about the Latino vote. When Bill Clinton sent Elian Gonalez back to castros commie cuba AL GORE LOST THE ELECTION And 89% Florida Latino votes went to George W Bush. And Gore Lost in Florida. Gore needed florida in order to win the presidency.Now bush better learn from Bill Clintons mistake or if he sends that little girl back to cuba it could backfire and i gurantee you Hillary Rodham Clinton will become the first woman in the white house.
Circuit Judge Jeri B. Cohen determined the girl's mother, who would like her to return to Cuba, lost custody when the mother did not follow through with a court-ordered plan. At the same time, Cohen ruled against a request by the father for immediate custody.
The biological father has promised his little girl an idyllic country life on a farm with playful animals and other children. The farm's location in Cuba and the father's desire to raise the girl there, however, have put a political twist on a complex custody case unfolding in Miami family court.
The father is fighting allegations by the Department of Children & Families that he is an unfit parent. The girl and her relatives are not being named to protect their privacy.
The situation is the latest international custody battle to draw comparisons to the Elián González case.
On Thanksgiving Day 1999, 5-year-old Elián was found clinging to an inner tube in the ocean off Fort Lauderdale. He had survived a shipwreck that killed his mother and several other Cuban refugees.
A seven-month custody battle between Elián's relatives and his Cuban father -- punctuated with daily demonstrations at the Miami relatives' home -- peaked with a dramatic federal raid there and the boy's reunion with his father. Father and son returned to Cuba in June 2000.
There are many differences between Elián and the latest case. The girl's mother is alive, although she relinquished custody of the girl and her 12-year-old half-brother, who was adopted by the family the siblings live with. Also, the case is being settled in the court system, not by government officials, and has not become a "political football" like Elián, said Cuban-American activist and attorney Pedro Freyre.
"It is being decided as Elián should have been ... instead of being decided in the streets of Miami," he said. "The fact pattern in this one is different and it just got handled differently from the beginning."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbcustody0827nbaug27,0,1171926.story?track=rss
Its Happening all over again!! But only this time its a 4 year old cuban girl in miami.But Now Bush is the president.Now if Bush does the right thing and keep the girl in america REPUBLICANS WILL WIN IN 2008.Its all about the Latino vote. When Bill Clinton sent Elian Gonalez back to castros commie cuba AL GORE LOST THE ELECTION And 89% Florida Latino votes went to George W Bush. And Gore Lost in Florida. Gore needed florida in order to win the presidency.Now bush better learn from Bill Clintons mistake or if he sends that little girl back to cuba it could backfire and i gurantee you Hillary Rodham Clinton will become the first woman in the white house.
