Paternal Aunt: Unaccompanied Minor

Mexican Girl Dept: Josette Rosenzweig Issasi, who had been in her paternal aunt s care in Toronto, was seized from Central Technical School last Thursday and returned to her mother, Marlen Issasi Rodriguez, who claimed the girl was illegally retained in Canada, according to The Star. In this case, the subject is an unaccompanied minor who ran away from the mother who has custody. The girl s parents were divorced, the father currently a refugee in Norway, while the Toronto aunt has no legal authority over her and a 13-year-old Mexican girl who fled abuse by her mother and was granted asylum in Canada has been returned to the alleged abuser in Cancun. The unusual case pits the 1996 Hague Convention an international law that deals with wrongful removal or retention of a child against a child s rights to protection under the United Nations Refugee Convention. As reported in the news.
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