Community | August 12, 2009 | 3 comments

American citizen in Italian orphanage

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Home videos show 5-year-old Liam McCarty horsing around with his father, his blond curls bouncing around a cherubic face.



Michael McCarty is working to get his son back from an Italian orphanage.It's a face his father, Michael McCarty, hasn't seen in months.

Liam, an American citizen, was placed into the custody of an Italian orphanage this spring after his mother, Manuela McCarty, fled to her native Italy with the child in the middle of a custody dispute with Michael McCarty.

Yet shortly after arriving, a court reportedly ruled that she was an unfit parent and Liam was put into an orphanage instead of being returned to his father. Now father and son are stuck in a tangled legal battle that involves several courts in what Michael McCarty said is an "archaeic" system.

"The last time I saw him was a few months ago and he's not doing very well," McCarty told "Good Morning America's" Chris Cuomo today. "He has deteroiated."
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3 comments // American citizen in Italian orphanage

  • MotherForTruth
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  
    • That is very heart breaking. It sucks that courts are so interested in their legalities that they forget who and what is at stake. How irrational it is that Italy would not allow the child to go back where he was just because he has dual citizenship.

      Complicated is a lie. They make it complicated. They are being heartless and cruel and there is no two ways about that.

    • 2 years ago
  • justadad
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      justadad  
    • Pla/oy for NWO?

      Makes one wonder of/if any resilience within/to "self-evident truths."

      Based upon certain esteemed "western" cultures, facades appear readily capable of lulling even the most honorable of enlightened Ghost Towns of/to apathy.

    • 2 years ago
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