Rafael Espinosa's Kidnapped Children Found - Will be Returned to Him Soon
June 5th, 2009 by Robert Franklin, Esq.On March 20th, I posted a piece about a Minnesota man, Rafael Espinosa, whose ex-girlfriend kidnapped his two children. Read the original piece here. Later GlennSacks.com also put up Espinosa's poster with photos of his ex and kids in the hopes it would assist authorities in locating them and returning the children to their father.
On June 2nd, the mother and children were located in Fargo, ND. According to this report, the mother, Cindy Kaye Adler tried to check herself and the children into a women's shelter in Fargo using her real name (AMW, 6/2/09). Personnel at the shelter recognized that there was a warrant out for her arrest and notified local police. She is fighting extradition to Minnesota. The children are currently in foster care pending their return to Espinosa.
Originally Adler had been granted custody, but her interference with the daughter's relationship with Espinosa and with his visitation generally, led a judge to transfer custody to him. During one of Adler's visitation periods, she absconded with both children. In short, it seems like a textbook case of maternal gatekeeping and PAS.
Whatever the case, it'll be interesting to see how Minnesota authorities hold Adler responsible for her actions. Stay tuned.
And congratulations to Rafael Espinosa. The gang at GlennSacks.com wishes you all the best.
Thanks to "Lurker" for the heads-up.
"));
19 queries. 0.303 seconds.
June 5th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Im stunned , a shelter that does what it is supposed to , protect those who actually need help ( in this case the kids) those who run this shelter,,,,, for all the man hating rhetoric and the comments about denying female on male dv as to do otherwise would reduce funding should be commended for doing whats right here.
June 5th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
I expect Ms. Cindy Adler will be found guilty of kidnapping, however, the charge will be reduced to littering. She will be ordered to pay $150 in court costs and $100 fine to (help defer the costs of prosecuting her), and she be given a strongly worded, no very strongly worded, warning to not commit crimes in the future.
Later Ms. Adler will be offered part-time job (with full-time pay and benefits) to serve women in a women's shelter.
America is Tough on Crime
June 5th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Later Ms. Adler will be offered part-time job (with full-time pay and benefits) to serve women in a women's shelter.
You forgot about the book and Lifetime movie of the week deal and exclusive interview on Oprah to tell her unheard and harrowing tale of abuse violence and pain.
June 5th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Really nice to see a shelter doing the right thing. It goes to show they aren't all run by man-hating feminists and that there are some very good ones out there run by honest decent people genuinely interested in doing good.
It really says something about society that a child kidnapper feels confident enough to attempt to use a facility designed for female victims. Like a lot of women I'd suggest that she somehow feels she is the victim and no matter what the circumstances or the rality of the situation such people beleive the man is always the guilty party.
June 6th, 2009 at 8:08 am
IMO, the shelter turned her in simply because she used her own name. It was an example of CYA: their funding would've been jeopardized by an obstruction of justice charge otherwise. If she had used a transparent pseudonym or merely been recognized, the shelter would have just winked and hidden her. You know. Deniability.
June 8th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
From what the article said, this woman was featured on America's Most Wanted, if that's what reference to AMW stands for. While I have to agree that there are many shelter workers who are vicariously living out their own revenge by protecting other "victims" (right, wrong or otherwise) -- and yes, I know someone like that who works in a shelter -- knowingly harboring someone who has an arrest warrant out on them could very, very easily be turned into a charge of being an accomplice, especially when there are children involved. AMW goes nationwide and all the "Golly, I didn't know" or "Gosh, who'd a-thunk" wouldn't have cut it with a judge.
Also, while the shelters do provide a valuable service to the communities, the view that they are biased and often complicit in sheltering women who have taken off with their non-custodial children is becoming more and more widespread and accepted. How sad is that?