Reported before about an ex-husband who kidnapped his kid and flew off to Israel.. Well we have an update! Looks like the child was found and brought back to his other daddy in the U.S. What a Relief!An abducted New York toddler at the center of an international gay custody battle was taken from one of his dads in Israel Thursday and handed over to the other, lawyers said.
A "removal team" made up of Israeli law enforcement and social workers escorted 23-month-old Jedidiah from a Jerusalem apartment where father Eric Hyett had holed up after spiriting the boy there from Manhattan.
"It's the most wonderful feeling in the world to have him back," Jedidiah's other dad, Joshua Glazer, said in a call from Israel after being reunited with his son.
When Jedidiah saw him he started shouting, "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy! And he was kissing me and kissing everybody," Glazer said.
Glazer and Hyett had married in Massachusetts in 2004, but later broke up. The two became embroiled in a bitter custody battle over their adopted son.
Hyett, arguing Glazer was emotionally abusive and trying to cut him out of the child's life, took Jedidiah and fled on Aug. 4 to Israel, where he has friends and family.
Glazer hired the International Investigative Group, which located Hyett within 20 hours of him landing in Israel, said agency president Daniel Ribacoff.
Private investigators tailed Hyett for more than a week as he moved from Lapid, a small village near the West bank, to the Jerusalem apartment where officials found Jedidiah.
Glazer and his mother flew to Israel, and Glazer was outside waiting in a car when authorities brought the child to him.
In his absence, Hyett was indicted in Manhattan on a charge of custodial interference and Glazer was awarded temporary custody of the boy, according to court documents and Glazer's attorney Samuel Ferrara.
Glazer, Hyett and their son will remain Israel at least through next Thursday, when the case will be heard in Israeli court.
The court will decide whether to send the child home for the custody dispute to be settled in New York.
"Gut-wrenching. That's how I would describe it," Glazer said of the past two weeks. [SOURCE]
Man.. What a mess. I feel terrible for the little one who is caught in the middle of this war between two ex-lovers. I hope there is light at the end of this tunnel.
