The case of Sally Faulkner attempting to abduct her children in Lebanon highlights the desperate nature of international child retrieval. For one private detective,the moral dimension of what he does weighs heavilyAnyone watching the grainy CCTV footage of Sally Faulkner’s two young children being grabbed by operatives from a street in Beirut can instantly feel the depths of tragedy here: children traumatised, parents destroyed, and the fiendishly complicated pitfalls of cross-cultural relationships,and the inadequacies of international law to serve justice in the interests of the most vulnerable.
Here is a moral minefield embedded within the shifting landscape of marital breakdown and custody battles. Children abducted by their own parent – then re-abducted by the other. It can’t obtain much more desperate than that.
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Source: theguardian.com