The UK Stole My American Son
You may be wondering why I've been posting so sporadically over the last several months. What I have to disclose is devastating, difficult to believe, but is really happening. And I have the receipts.
Where to start? At the beginning, I suppose.
OH NO
A woman who I had a very sporadic on/off relationship with. Well, more like friends with benefits. Scratch that, enemies with benefits. As luck should have it, she became pregnant in February 2019. Needless to say, this was not ideal.
I argued that this could only end in disaster because I would never be a dead-beat dad but we also didn’t have any sort of foundation to be a family. I was against bringing a child into this world with parents who were already separated and despised each other. And further to the point, I knew this woman was toxic as hell (example below) and would be a horrific mother. Even if she had the best of intentions, I knew she’d be incapable.
But by May 2019 I decided to bite the bullet and took the “let’s work out our differences, be a couple, and raise the child together” approach. I’d only been fighting her, so I thought, well, what if I gave her what she wanted? Maybe that would smooth things over, establish shared priorities, and we could really give this a shot.
That way the kid would have both parents and I’d be around to keep an eye on her incase her mental health further deteriorated. I stipulated that she needed to stay on her medication (she’d been on and off multiple anti-psychotics) and that we attend couples counseling.
She agreed. Then, mere hours later, she cheated on me. Fuck this.
SPERM DONOR
That manipulative narcissist finally admitted she’d intentionally pretended to take birth control and had used me for my genetics because it would be cheaper than having her eggs frozen, dismissing me as a “sperm donor”. Among other alarming behaviors I won’t bore you with, it was very clear to me that my future child would be in extreme jeopardy under the care of someone like her.
Such thoughtlessness on her part, the timing of it, and doing so while pregnant with my child was beyond my capacity to reconcile. The message I got was that she only wanted what she couldn’t have, then once she had it, had me… she didn’t.
It was always about control.
ABORT?
I strongly encouraged her to abort the pregnancy while it was early enough (I’m firmly opposed to late-term abortions) and told her that if she had the child I would file for full custody and would do everything in my power to ensure that he/she was secure and safe, away from her sociopathy.
The idea of my kid being raised by someone like that was terrifying, especially in light of my own abusive childhood. I would not allow history to repeat itself and I would not allow this woman to control my life, using my son as leverage to make me her puppet.
So she returned to her home in Oklahoma City while I remained in Los Angeles. She bombarded my phone with texts and calls and emails, going so far as to contact friends and family, as well as my employer. After multiple warnings from the police she was charged with harassment and finally left me alone. A couple months later she emailed to say that she had miscarried.
I thought it was over and I could move on.
NOPE!
A couple months later I receive messages from her Aunt, who I’d never met or even heard of, who revealed that my ex hadn’t miscarried and was expecting to deliver in November.
She further explained that her niece was diagnosed with actual sociopathy and would kill the child, in part because it was going to be a boy. I don’t know why the gender mattered, but interestingly my ex had previously said to me you can have it if it’s a boy because she wanted a girl.
So what the Aunt said was at least consistent.
My beautiful son was born November 17th, 2019 and for perhaps the first time ever I experienced what was it was like to truly have unconditional love for someone. But she wouldn’t let me meet him in-person. Instead she wanted to use him as leverage to get me to “fix” our non-existent relationship. Until then, she would even deny that I was the father.
She later said she’d only ever sign the Acknowledgment of Paternity paperwork if I killed my female roommate who she was jealous of and showed her the fucking heart.
It was still all about her:
After months of negotiating and biding enough time to raise the funds, I hired an attorney and filed for full custody on July 8, 2020. Due to Covid, lockdowns, and the mother’s repeated obstructions, the case moved like molasses.
PATERNITY / CUSTODY
In March 2021 paternity was finally established, but before we could move on to the issue of custody she fled the country with my then almost 1.5 year old son. It was especially infuriating because a mutual friend knew of this plan and testified, yet the Oklahoma Judge still refused to issue an injunction preventing the mother from using a passport.
I was denied any assistance from law enforcement until I also had custody rights, which frustratingly were not issued until August 2021. So that meant baby mama was somewhere in the world, quite literally anywhere doing god knows what to my child, and there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it. For five entire months.
An emergency order for custody was approved, in part because my ex’s mother testified that even she feared her daughter would kill both herself and our child. The LAPD then issued a felony warrant and my son’s information went into a database of missing children.
FOUND
The embassy in London was alerted because he was in interim foster care due to neglect and abuse. His teeth were all broken or decayed, he had a burn on his leg, and he was found so malnourished and dehydrated that he required an IV drip for nutrients. He’d become so weakened that he lacked the strength to chew food.
My heart broke.
I could only hope that he wouldn’t remember his mistreatment since he was still only one and a half. The State Department instructed that I complete a Hague application to kick off the process of returning my son to America. I wasted no time getting it done and submitted.
On October 7, 2021, the UK arranged to begin remote visits with my son over Skype. I worried he wouldn’t recognize me since I hadn’t seen him in nearly a year.
I couldn’t have been happier to be wrong.
While thrilled to be finally bonding with my son, albeit remotely from 15,000 miles away, I was that much more anxious to get him home! I was told by the UK solicitors I was provided that he’d likely be back “in time for Christmas”.
Hey, what’s a couple more months, right?
Frustratingly it took an incredible eight months before we finally had the Hague hearings. Hague cases involving children are supposed to extradited to take place within 6 weeks. So right off the bat I was realizing just how lawless this Local Authority, the Coventry City Council, operated. They claimed it was because there were doubts that the mother was mentally capable of even participating, but that doesn’t explain an eight month delay.
VETTED
During the interim, Coventry demanded a background check, a DNA test, copies of my medical records, a dozen-plus hours worth of interviews, an inspection of my home and vehicle, work history, character references, a drug test, proof I was up-to-date on my taxes, and grilled me over blog postings I wrote due to concerns that I had “sympathizes for Putin”.
I just wanted my son back and they were treating me as if I were a suspected terrorist. But what could I do? It was their country, their rules. The one perk was that their extensive vetting included covering all expenses for me to visit Coventry, UK and see my boy for two weeks so they could “observe and evaluate” our interactions. Despite it being needlessly supervised, that was an opportunity I’d never pass up.
MEETING MY SON FOR THE FIRST TIME IN-PERSON (MAY 2022):
I already had felt a strong connection with him. But spending time reading with him, playing legos, sharing lunch, painting, and otherwise directly interrogating with the little guy, I was even more all-in than I’d been before. It became real.
When I got home I got his bedroom furnished, stocked it with toys, got a potty-training seat, little toothbrushes, the whole nine yards. I was ready to be a single father for this amazing little guy once the Hague application was approved.
DENIED
Despite nothing but positive reports and zero safety concerns leveled by the Coventry City Council, Justice Lieven of the High Court denied my Hague application.
She argued that “no court in America had been seized by the issue of custody” prior to my son’s removal and that a (likely) permanent separation from the mother (due to the felony warrant awaiting her in the U.S.) would result in a “grave risk of harm” to the child.
BULLSHIT.
While the custody case was not resolved prior to removal, an American court had been very much “seized” since July 2020, a full eight months prior to her fleeing the country. And it was the mother herself who had been demonstrated to pose a grave risk of harm, not her absence! Hence why my son was in foster care and we were having these hearings in the first place!
Lieven couldn’t have made a more batshit ruling if she tried. And she did know better because even the barrister for the Guardian, who hated my guts, acknowledge I had a valid court order for sole custody. And a Coventry social worker admitted the UK was violating it.
My ex had also leveled numerous accusations which didn’t help, ranging from the obscene to the bizarre.
She claimed I ran a “sex cult”, that I was a terrorist under FBI investigation, had microwaved a cat, believed I was “a wizard with access to the quantum realm”, that I had tried to poison her with “Vitamin C”, and had threatened her and my son.
Not only does she lie her ass off and sound ridiculous, but she projects relentlessly. I’ve juxtaposed a couple of her own videos from TikTok with the harsh reality she either genuinely is too deluded to comprehend or consciously denies.
It’s a short clip but it sums her up.
Despite the initial social worker, Sereena Daddral, correctly concluding that none of the mother’s claims were substantiated and three police agencies in America had documented that baby mama repeatedly tried to file false charges against me, Lieven still took these complaints at face value.
When I went to appeal, my own legal team explicably refused. When I fired them and got a new team, the previous ones still tried to intervene to block me from appealing. It was then that I realized that I needed to video record every single interaction going forward because nobody appeared to be doing their fucking job. Except the foster carer, who remained consistently excellent and was taking great care of my son.
The appeal, submitted months later, was rubber-stamp rejected without a hearing.
CARE PROCEEDINGS
This was the second trial for a Judge to decide who would get my son, essentially re-litigating the custody case that had already been resolved in the U.S. Disturbingly the same Judge from Hague was assigned. I told my solicitor that Lieven couldn’t possibly rule in my favor without contradicting her own ruling on Hague. He acknowledged that was a valid point.
Everyone knew the mother was ruled out, namely because she hired someone to have me murdered in January 2022, was diagnosed with straight-up psychosis in March 2022, and had tried to re-abduct my son from a visiting center in April 2022 (only got into the lobby that time, fortunately).
Yet Lieven still argued that my abused son should be reunited with his abusive mother under supervision. I explicitly warned against this, knowing damn well what would result. It was obvious if she’d bothered to review the case file. Lieven ignored me.
WATCH WHAT HAPPENED:
(click here for the full security camera footage)
Needlessly to say, I was beyond outraged and entirely fed up with this entire sham of a system. But I still restricted my understandable anger to merely referring to the Coventry City Counsel and Justice Lieven as having been “dumb” and described the Court proceedings as a “circus run by negligent clowns”.
Considering that their recklessness had exposed my son to violence, resulting in him waking up at night screaming in terror that mummy was back, and how predictable and preventable this traumatic experience had been, I bit my tongue damn well.
I mean, can you imagine? A three year old having nightmares about his own mother? The risk of long-term psychological damage is immeasurable. You can visually see for yourself the impact this had on his behavior:
TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE ABDUCTION (August 23, 2022)
THE DAY FOLLOWING THE ABDUCTION (Sept 8, 2022)
But apparently even calling the Coventry City Council clowns was enough for them to double-down, twist the knife, and add further insult to injury. From then on, they demonized me to death in court. Care hearings began in February 2023. A second week of hearings continued in May 2023.
You’d think it would have been a cakewalk since the mother didn’t have a shot, leaving only me by default. But Coventry City threw a curveball and argued in favor of returning him to the homicidal mother’s sister instead, thus removing my son from both his parents.
Wait, I thought it was said during the Hague trial that permanently removing him from his mother would pose a grave risk of harm? Now all of a sudden removing him from both parents wouldn’t…? Clearly my son’s safety and well-being is NOT their priority.
Further, the Aunt in Florida lives in a trailer with six people, owns a gun, has multiple pitbulls, and is physically disabled. Oh, and she stated in writing (twice) that she would turn my son back over to her sister, the abusive, psychotic, homicidal mother.
Great safety plan, eh?
SEE FOR YOURSELF
I’m going to wrap this up with multiple videos of the court hearings. This material is entirely illegal to film, let alone possess and make public, but at this stage I genuinely couldn’t care less. The UK has no jurisdiction to prosecute me and the world needs to see these motherfuckers for themselves.
Here’s more/less my opening statement, prompted by my solicitor.
Barrister Aiden Vine, summarizing Coventry’s (non-existent) argument in his own words, then cross-examines (interrogates) me:
Barrister for the guardian, Ruth Kirby, who presumably was raped by an Uncle or something because her pro-mother/anti-father bias was off the charts:
And barrister Nick Brown, bizarrely obsessed with resuming contact AGAIN with the mother WHILE SHE WAS SITTING IN JAIL ON KIDNAPPING CHARGES after returning back to the U.S., triggering the warrant.
Lastly, here are social workers Blessed Hore and Jessica Keane misleading and outright perjuring themselves. Without any consequences, of course. Note that Hore was no longer working for Coventry prior to testifying (should have been disqualified) and Keane has never once spoken to me yet still wrote a parenting assessment. Oh, and the foster carer was banned from testifying. Because she was fully on my side in all this.
Barrister Nick Brown again, adamantly refusing to even discuss my ability to parent, which you’d think would be the primary focus of Care (custody) Proceedings.
This video also exposes how recklessly the Coventry City Council dismisses an evidenced safety concern about placement with the sister in Florida.
Good thing I filmed all this, eh? Because nobody would believe it.
AND NOW…?
Justice Lieven, being the f’n idiot that she is, approved giving custody to the homicidal mother’s sister in Florida and all contact with my son has been suspended as of October 6, 2023. Which is undoubtedly inflicting him with even more emotional and psychological damage on top of the trauma already imposed by the criminal negligence of these pieces of shit.
The Coventry City Council will argue it’s because I started posting videos about these confidential proceedings, but what they won’t admit is that they had already reduced my visits starting in September 2023 to a single hour PER MONTH.
Over the past two-plus years they had threatened to cut off contact if I went public and I remained silent solely out of fear of not seeing my boy. But once visits were whittled down to an hour a month, I knew it was time. And there’s so much more to come.
The world needs and deserves to know what is happening in the United Kingdom. I don’t know how widespread it is, but from what I’ve gathered in the British support group I’ve joined this is a systemic problem. Parents are having their children removed and placed with new families for profit via forced adoptions.
And now an American child is just their latest victim. They will regret it.
This has become an intolerable situation and I am urgently seeking multiple avenues to ensure that this finally ends with my son being reunited with his father. After 2.5 exhausting years of fighting just to have my abducted child returned to the left-behind parent, we seek an overdue happy ending to our story.
I’ll leave you with this compilation, condensing two years worth of visits into 10 minutes.
FOR UPDATES, BOOKMARK MY LINKTREE ACCOUNT DEDICATED TO THE RETURN OF SON:
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Please sign the petition, donate to the legal fund if you can, and share the various videos I will continue to post on YouTube, TikTok, and Rumble, where I will continue exposing the bastards who did this until justice is finally served.
Also listen to the “Why Daddy Never Cries” podcast on Spotify. The link above will take you directly to my episode. Part 2 should be up tomorrow.
Here is my Linktree account dedicated to bringing my boy home, which has links to all of the above and is the one you should bookmark. Thank you for reading.
Biden’s State Department was notified about all of this, by the way, and they said if my son were detained by Russia, then they would intervene. But not in the UK.
Isn’t that nice?
My heart is heavy for you. I can’t imagine going through this torment. I pray things will turn around and your son will get to come home to you.