Islanders thwart police attempt to remove child from father
Islanders of Himadhoo gathered in numbers Sunday evening to prevent police officers from removing a two-year-old boy from his father, who is defying a family court order to transfer the child to his mother’s care.
02 May 2016, 9:00 AM
Islanders of Himadhoo gathered in numbers Sunday evening to prevent police officers from removing a two-year-old boy from his father’s custody.
The father is defying a family court order issued on April 14 to transfer the child to his mother’s care within seven days. The police reportedly went to the island in the central Alif Alif atoll after the gender ministry failed to resolve the custody battle.
Himandhoo Council’s President Abdulla Shareef told Maldives Independent: “The police were ruthless in their attempt to remove the child. They acted as if they were snatching a crow from a nest, pulling the child’s arm and making him cry.”
The police media official was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.
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