Today, November 25, 2018 marks 165 days since my daughter was legally kidnapped by my husband. Today is also the day that I have gained enough strength to start documenting the journey of bringing her home, although I really wish I would have documented it from the beginning. I tried several times, but the tears…
June 14, 2018. I woke up in a panic. The night before was the first night that my husband gave me any indication that he would sacrifice my daughter’s well-being in order to hurt me and gain control. June 13, 2018. It was my daughter’s bedtime and my husband insisted on giving her a bath…
One may wonder… how did I end up married to a sociopathic monster? I wonder that myself all the time. Here’s how it went down: I had been living in New York City for about a year and was introduced to my husband through a mutual friend. The first time I saw him was in…
I believe in a holistic approach to parenting. I am anti-processed food. I nursed my daughter until she was 4 years old, and I would have kept going if my husband didn’t try to rip her away from me for it. I have never given her any dairy, and she has never taken medicine in…
I walked out of court in complete and utter shock. I was not allowed to go back to my apartment, and I was not allowed to see my own child. How is this possible? I made her, I grew her in my belly, I loved her, I did everything for her. I was a good…
It had been two weeks since the emergency hearing and it was time to go to court again. My lawyer felt there was a fair chance of supervision getting lifted since we had prepared a solid cross motion and a top notch expert report. A highly respected child psychologist had looked through the videos and produced 14…
The judge’s ruling came a week after the second hearing. It was early in the evening and I received a call from my lawyer. “Paulina, we got the ruling!” He was in a cab and excited to share the news. “I’m very pleased with the ruling” As soon as I heard those words come out…
It had been almost a week since the emergency hearing and since I had seen my daughter. I had never spent that much time away from her except the rare business trip. I was now only permitted to see her with a supervisor present, and there weren’t any available for the first several days. At…
Not only did my husband steal my child, but also my stuff. I was able to take a good chunk of my wardrobe with me during our separation, but the things I still had at our marital apartment were as good as gone. He packed a couple of boxes of my things in order to…
I am very lucky that even in this extreme of a storm I had some angels to help me weather it. For the first few weeks of supervision I was assigned supervisors from an agency in Long Island, since CFS (the NYC agency) had no availability. When CFS took over things got better. Some of…
Legally Kidnapped 