Exclusive: A federal judge is set to rule on whether a 6-year-old boy must be sent back to Italy to live with his father, who admitted in court to abusing the boy’s now deceased mother.
. While there are no definitive statistics, experts estimate that in the majority of such cases, mothers are fleeing domestic violence.
Lawyers representing Golan’s family, the boy and Saada did not respond to emails and phone calls seeking comment.Morin Golan, Narkis’ sister, now has primary custody of the boy. According to recent court filings by lawyers for Golan’s family, after two recent visits with his father the boy returned to his aunt with bruises.
Morin Golan said that when she asked her nephew about the source of the bruises, he said “he did not remember or does not know how the bruises got there,” the filing says, adding that his autism and trauma disorders mean that “he is often not communicative and cannot advocate on his own behalf.” The filing from Morin Golan’s lawyers also alleges that the boy says “he is not permitted to speak about his mother” when visiting his father and that “he is afraid to bring a stuffed animal that plays a recording of his mother’s voice” to their visits because he is afraid he will get in trouble.
In response, Saada’s lawyers concede Saada “may have, at times, used inappropriate language” around his son, but say that he has instructed the boy “to refrain from using foul language, which, as a young child, [the boy] finds amusing.
In an opinion filed on behalf of Morin Golan, Laura Serra, a Rome-based attorney who specializes in family law, wrote that if Donnelly sends the boy to Italy, there is a “very high likelihood” he would be placed in a group home, where she claims he could stay for years while Italian authorities investigate the various family members who could potentially take custody of him, including his father.
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