ONE MINUTE MOORE RANDALL MOORE
Turn the tables, and THEN what?
One of my childhood friends in Prescott
was raised by his father. I never met his mother and he didn’t talk about her − ever − though I heard she lived just a few miles away. One day my friend couldn’t come out to play. I later heard it was because his mother was coming to town and they were worried she might “take” him. Take him? Where and for how long? I was young. The word “abduction” didn’t register. Abduction. I was thinking about my old friend while I
was reading the story about Patricia O’Bryne, who abducted and concealed her daughter for 18 years. 1993: That’s when O’Bryne signed a custody order with her estranged partner, Joe Chisholm, giving him generous access to their three-year-old daughter. Days later she took off, mother did, with
their daughter, first to South Carolina, then Ireland, where she hid out. Mr. Chisholm never stopped searching for his little girl. Finally, his ex and daughter were found
living in Victoria, B.C. Eighteen years later! Daughter grew up knowing nothing about her dad, whom a judge described as a fine human being who would have made a remarkable father. Would have. Why did the mother take off? Something
about being sexually molested as a child and worried that Mr. Chisholm would hire male babysitters who might sexually their daughter. Great excuse. Whatever works. And it works a lot. Of the several hundred
children abducted each year in Canada, most are by their mothers, and most get what amounts to a slap on the wrist. As I said, it works. House arrest and probation. That’s what Ms.
O’Bryne received for abducting a child. Concealing a child from her father for 18
years. Would the sentence be the same if it was a
father abducting a child? A rhetorical question, my friends.
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