A federal judge is set to rule on whether a 6-year-old boy must be sent back to Italy to live with his father, who admitted in court to abusing the boy’s now deceased mother. The case reached the Supreme Court in 2022, where the justices sided with the mother, making it easier for judges to reject a child’s return to a country where they could face a “grave risk of harm.” The case now awaits a ruling by Judge Ann Donnelly and highlights the issue of mothers around the world fleeing abusive partners and then being accused of kidnapping under the Hague Convention’s child abduction clauses.
