I got this spark from a blogger friend RJ Flamingo of Flamingo Musings and I can't help but sympathize with the parent of this missing adorable boy Amedeo Cuomo who has been missing for over a year now. I know some of you might have received spam e-mails about missing children in the past, and think that this one is another spam e-mail. This one is real, as vouched by RJ herself. Please read through and let's help find this missing boy.
This is about the missing son of a very dear friend of a good friend of mine, and he has been searching for his son, Amedeo Cuomo, for over 1 year! Amedeo was taken by his mother, who did NOT have custody.
He could be anywhere in the world, but the last known country was Germany. There is also a possibility that he may be back in the U.S. (California???), or he may be in India - the bottom line is that no one really knows!
Those of you who read me, and others who are SocialSpark friends are all over the U.S. and all over the world. Those of you who blog have readers way farther than my puny reach. That's why I would ask you, from the bottom of my heart, to post this on your own blogs and/or forward it as an e-mail to as many people as you know, in the hope that someone, somewhere, will recognize this kid or his mother and contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (missingkids.com).
The FBI and Interpol are also looking for the mother, so they can be alerted also if anyone has any information as to their whereabouts. Click on this poster to make it larger:
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MISSING CHILD FOR REAL
by RJ FLAMINGO
You all know that I hate spam and there are a gazillion phony missing child notices making the rounds on the web, morphing as they go. I cannot emphasize enough that this is for real. I personally know the person making the request.This is about the missing son of a very dear friend of a good friend of mine, and he has been searching for his son, Amedeo Cuomo, for over 1 year! Amedeo was taken by his mother, who did NOT have custody.
He could be anywhere in the world, but the last known country was Germany. There is also a possibility that he may be back in the U.S. (California???), or he may be in India - the bottom line is that no one really knows!
Those of you who read me, and others who are SocialSpark friends are all over the U.S. and all over the world. Those of you who blog have readers way farther than my puny reach. That's why I would ask you, from the bottom of my heart, to post this on your own blogs and/or forward it as an e-mail to as many people as you know, in the hope that someone, somewhere, will recognize this kid or his mother and contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (missingkids.com).
The FBI and Interpol are also looking for the mother, so they can be alerted also if anyone has any information as to their whereabouts. Click on this poster to make it larger:
I don't know if I thanked you for posting this, yet, and if I didn't, Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI'll be blogging about you soon. I'm spacing out my thank you blogs to help keep this fresh. Thanks again!
ever thought why a woman runs away from a man , maybe because of abuse, destain, or beeing in danger ! Any idea of the brutaly to trade a life on the run rather than living a hell !
ReplyDeleteWhat do you all know ? I once been in a situation like this. Its very dangerous to take sides on such issues. Poor little boy??
How do you know how happy he is no and how poor he was, beeing beaten or burned from his own father like in my case and the law didn´t give a damn! He is with his mom ! Think about it !
Amedeo & his mother were in fact victims of abuse. Luigi "Gino" Cuomo is a sociopath. He physically & emotionally tormented his wife & her child before forcing them from their home. He only started looking for them when his US visa was running out. This man is a evil shyster who is trying to use his own son as a bargaining chip for a greencard. You should be applauding Amedeo's Mom for having the good sense & bravery to save herself & her child from a life threatening situation.
ReplyDeleteRefugee petition rejected
ReplyDeletefor U.S. woman held here
By Elyssa Pachico
of the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Immigration and security officials would not admit a petition for refugee status submitted by a U.S. woman wanted on an international kidnapping charge.
The woman's lawyer, Jorge Rojas Torres, said Wednesday that the Ministerio de Gobernación, Policia y Seguridad Pública was unclear as to why officials would not admit the petition for refugee status, which was presented during the last week of November. The lawyer and his client have appealed the denial, he said, and expect an answer from the ministry Friday.
The woman, Mary Anginette McBeth, 37, was detained by immigration police Nov. 21, in Montezuma, Nicoya. She and her son, Amedeo, 2, had been living in Costa Rica using a different name and false passport since September 2007. The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a kidnapping warrant against her April 14, 2007, for allegedly abducting her son from his father, Luigi Cuomo, 50.
Fanny Cordero, a spokeswoman for the child welfare office, the Patronato Nacional de la Infancia, confirmed that Ms. McBeth's son is in the custody of his father. However, she could not confirm that the two remain in Costa Rica.
Ms. McBeth, a former resident of Surfside, Florida, first filed for divorce from Cuomo in Nov. 26, 2006, according to the Miami-Dade county courthouse records. According to Ms. McBeth, in March, she booked a round-trip ticket to visit her son from another marriage, Noah, 17, in Germany. Her husband, who knew she was going to Germany, filed kidnapping charges in her absence, she said.
At the time she left for Germany in March, she and Cuomo shared joint custody of the child.
Cuomo's lawyer, Lawrence S. Katz, who handled divorce proceedings in Florida, said that while there was no judicial order preventing Ms. McBeth from leaving the country at that time, by doing so she still violated Florida's interference with custody law.
Additionally, in Florida's dissolution of marriage statute, a parent must give 30 days notice to the other parent before relocating the child, which Ms. McBeth failed to do, he said.
“She never provided any information whatsoever,” he said. “She disappeared and we had no idea where she was.”
Ms. McBeth said that on the second day of her arrival to Germany, her husband called her to make sure she had arrived safely. “He knew I was leaving,” said Ms. McBeth, who is being held in an immigration detention center in Hatillo.
Cuomo had been named the sole parental custodian of Amadeo after April 30, 2007, the same day that the FBI issued a warrant order for Ms. McBeth, said Katz. According to Katz, Cuomo first asked for sole parental responsibility when filing a counter petition for the divorce Dec. 15, 2006, accusing Ms. McBeth of using marijuana in the presence of her child. Ms. McBeth denies the charge.
In a Karlsruhe, Germany, court Ms. McBeth attempted to seek refugee status, accusing her husband of physically abusing her. The judge dismissed the charges due to a lack of credibility, said Katz, who called the accusations “patently false.”
“There's never been a police report filed by her. There's never been a 911 call filed by her. There's never been anything in the divorce case filed by her,” he said. “There's no evidence, but more importantly were never any allegations filed in Florida. She's never made an allegation there before to the police or to any court.”
Ms. McBeth's petition for refugee status is at the Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería, an agency of the ministry.
more info
ReplyDeletehttp://www.poder-judicial.go.cr/salaconstitucional/REVISTADIGITAL2009/2008-018538.html