He fled to Hungary with his son, a mother sentenced to one and a half years

The child was only 7 years old at the time. He now lives in Hungary with his mother and his father is forced to travel 1200 kilometers once a month to see him only for 24 hours. The defense: “We will appeal”

It was October 2017 when a Hungarian woman, wife of an entrepreneur in the construction sector from Mogliano, suddenly decided to return to her country of origin, without announcing anything to anyone. After her husband, now just over forty, got up at dawn to go to work, she he loaded the family car with the child, who was only 7 years old at the time, and his personal effects, and left for a town overlooking Lake Balaton, in his country of origin. Since then the child has never returned to Mogliano where he had lived the first seven years of his life.

“I’ll never forget that day. When I got home for lunch – says the man – nI did not find anyone. My wife, my son and the family car were all gone. Imagine the anguish: I felt my heart in my throat, even if I imagined what had happened, thanks to the testimonies of the neighbors. Only after a few days, she deigned to send me an email with a message of a few lines: “I inform you that we have arrived in Hungary” ». Since then, the paths have further divided between the woman, now 33, and her husband, with civil lawsuits, separation close to divorce and criminal charges for child abduction.

In the early afternoon todaythe judge Leonardo Bianco of the court of Treviso put a brick on the affair and decided to sentence his mother to one year and six months (as requested by the public prosecution represented in the courtroom by the prosecutor Eloisa Galluppi) and to the compensation to be established before the civil court, however recognizing the man an immediately executive provisional amount of 20 thousand euros “. The judge also suspended the woman’s parental responsibility. Naturally, the sentence, until it is final, will not have any operational enforceability. All the more so after that the woman’s lawyerthe lawyer Matteo Moretto of Pordenone, announced, at the end of the hearing, an appeal to the Court of Appeal. “We respect the sentence but we do not agree with the outcome: I can already confidently announce an appeal on appeal”.

On the positive side, almost five years after the fact, the two parents started talking to each other again. They did so yesterday on the sidelines of the hearing. Of course, the versions of the facts remained opposite. The woman spoke of an unbearable family climate: “Maybe I had to behave differently,” he said in the courtroom. “But I was alone and scared and I just wanted to raise my son well. I’ve heard so many lies in this courtroom aimed at me. But the relations between us were at a minimum and we could not go on also because I was afraid of him ». For his part, the man, who became a civil party, has always claimed to have respected the rules. “My dignity as a man and as a father has been trampled and that is why I have turned to justice.”

The lawyer of the civil party, the lawyer Fabio Crea, spoke of a child uprooted from the environment in which he had lived for seven years with a father forced to travel hours by car and spend 500 euros a time to go and hug his son again for just 24 hours a month. The child, entrusted to social services, remains with his mother in Hungary, until there is a final sentence on this case. The first round was awarded to the father yesterday.