The 6-year-old Rainer Jason Pedersen who was abducted from his mother's house in Kifissia on Tuesday night is in Norway. Documentary photos released by the Norwegian father, with his son smiling in his arms and playing with his cousins, prove that Rainer is "happy".
"His mother can visit him whenever she wants," says the Norwegian father, while his lawyer says his client does not want the confrontation with his child's mother to continue.
"The boy is at home in Norway. He is back home and reunited with his friends, the kindergarten, reunited with his family after two years," says Skaj Haaheim, the father's lawyer, adding:
"The child will undergo a health examination and the Norwegian child protection services will offer support, if necessary, if it is indicated that the child has been injured during the abduction."
The great-grandmother of the 6-year-old child, who was at home at the time of the abduction, is shocked:
"He was playing with his little toys and we were getting ready to go to bed. Suddenly I see the little one running towards the door screaming: "Mommy's here." He opened the door , went in , dunked the child and covered his mouth with a mask. I run after him until I realize the kid is being robbed, I get out and there was a white van parked. They took my child and left."
[/P]They arrived in Norway on a flight from Thessaloniki via Denmark
[/P]Little Rainer's journey to Norway was a long one. At 8.30 in the evening of 24 May the kidnapping took place. An hour later, at 9.26, the perpetrators abandon the white van on Syngrou Avenue. A few hours later, authorities trace the father's relative's mobile phone in Kallithea, Boeotia.
At one in the morning, the Amber Alert for Rainer is activated. At 6.18 a.m. the two men, together with the child, take the flight to Copenhagen. At 8.02 the plane lands in the Danish capital and from there they drive to Norway.
The 6-year-old's passport is in the hands of the mother here in Greece. The father together with a relative took the child out of Greece under a different name. "Goodbratson Svernikolai", were the details on Rane[/B]r's travel documents.
The couple's feud and telecommuting
The feud between the couple began in the summer of 2010 when the mother illegally, as her ex-husband accused her, brought their child to Greece. Until then, and indeed since 2018, he had been his primary caregiver, as she had moved to another city in Norway for studies and work. Following a court case in Norway, the mother was charged with kidnapping with police searching for the boy internationally. The Norwegian court itself had even decided that the custody of the child should be given entirely to his father.
As the Norwegian lawyer made known in his interview, the mother had been working for an educational institution while she remained in Norway. When she and her son left Norway in 2020, due to the pandemic, she continued her work from Greece by telecommuting.
During the school year 2020/2021, she was paid regularly, receiving all scheduled salaries and allowances. All the relevant documents were also filed in court, according to Ricky Pedersen's side, with him even reacting strongly at the time, as he could not accept the fact that while she had illegally taken his child away from him, the Norwegian state continued to pay her. The truth is that until then there was no conviction against her.
On the other hand, in the investigations made by the police in the summer of 2020 in their communication with the mother, she assured them that she would return to Norway as soon as the borders were reopened due to the coronavirus restrictions.
"We then started contacting the educational institution to find out if she was still cooperating with them. We had a hope that she would return the child voluntarily. In hindsight, it turned out that this was misleading on her part to delay the return case in order to win in the Greek courts." The father of 6-year-old Rainer Pedersen[BR]
In June 2021 the child's mother was officially charged with tax evasion according to lawyer Sjak R. Haaheim :
"As part of our efforts we had appealed to the educational institution to stop depositing money in the account she maintained abroad" to no avail since according to Norwegian law, employees should not be fired even when accused, but the employer should wait until there is a conviction.
Source: Proto Thema
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