{"id":2151,"date":"2009-12-21T18:28:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T23:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forthelost.wordpress.com\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T21:15:22","slug":"why-jean-paul-lacombe-should-not-be-a-poster-child-for-the-protective-parent-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/why-jean-paul-lacombe-should-not-be-a-poster-child-for-the-protective-parent-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Jean Paul Lacombe should not be a poster child for the “protective parent” movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was recently made aware of the case of the missing child Jean Paul Lacombe.<\/a> He was abducted by his father, Juan Lacombe Vega, which on paper sounds typical enough. However, his father got temporary custody by presenting the court with phony documents. And he had previously abducted his son to France after custody was turned over to his mother. That’s pretty brazen, but not totally out of the realm of possibility. When Jean Paul was turned over to his father, it was videotaped and he protested he didn’t want to go.<\/p>\n

And now this case is being cited by the dubious “protective mother<\/strike> parent” movement as a case that somehow vindicates their theory that mothers who abduct only do so to save children from evil abusive fathers. Which is problematic in several ways. First, Vega didn’t win permanent custody in court; he got a temporary order which was rescinded the minute they found out he had used forged documents. Second, the only abductor in the case is Vega and he had a previous abduction under his belt. Third, there is no evidence I have seen that indicates the mother claimed abuse or that she was ever denied custody for reasons of “false abuse accusations.” <\/p>\n

The case is a tragedy, and I wish for Jean Paul to be with his mother again as soon as possible. But if this case is supposed to somehow validate the mother-the-hero-abductor movement, it is doing so under shaky ground of their own theories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was recently made aware of the case of the missing child Jean Paul Lacombe. He was abducted by his father, Juan Lacombe Vega, which on paper sounds typical enough. However, his father got temporary custody by presenting the court with phony documents. And he had previously abducted his son to France after custody was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-abductions","category-missing-people-in-the-news","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29902,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/29902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}