Robert Skelton - Father searching for his child taken from Florida

International Child Abduction - My Alter Ego in Florida






Reported in the Daytona Beach Journal - click here for the article


I'll be contacting Robert as I may be able to help him in finding his child but I think that the mirror nature of our cases serves to underlie the difficulties that he is going to face in finding his child, getting access or return of the child to Florida - not because of the allegations of domestic violence and so on, these unfortunately are par for the course.

Robert is going to face tremendous difficulties because he is simply an American and one from Florida at that and he will have to deal with the appallingly bad reputation that has been created by US officials in positions of responsibility that have failed to protect children in the past - in Washington DC and in Florida as well as on your doorstep in DeLand and DeBary.

Emily (my daughter) was taken 4 years ago with the assistance of the US Department of State based on claims I was domestically violent and they also made it a condition I was not to know where Emily was in the US (I have been repeatedly cleared of these claims by the courts and investigations)

2 months after being taken, Emily was put up for sale in WI and into the care of a convicted pedophile.

Emily was born with an eye defect which would render her permanently blind if untreated - she has received no medical treatment in the US and is now permanently blinded despite numerous British and US doctors advising treatment.

Emily has been moved about 40 times through 10 states in the US and was even missing and classified as endangered at one point.

VCSO Captain Osowski has falsified police reports while my PI observed the mother playing patsy with one of his Deputies in order to convince US Immigration I was a threat and a menace to the mother and my child, and was assisted in this by State Department officials in Washington DC who asked for my arrest in 2004 to stop court hearings in DeLand.

Even with a federal court order ordering my attendance in FL in connection with federal proceedings against the US Department of State - I am barred from entering the US for court ordered visitation with Emily (she was 5 yesterday) or from coming to court.

As for DCF....I have files and recordings that show they falsified their files, tapes of them telling me my daughter being given to a pedophile was a protective custody arrangement and that though Emily was treatable for her blindness this is not medical neglect as it is not life threatening.

What is upsetting is that this behaviour has been seen so many many times with European children and parents in the US and that it is causing a backlash - Robert will probably find his child and I will help him, but is he likely to get the child back, depends - and I have dozens of cases where perfectly good US parents lose their children because of poor official behaviour creating a terrible reputation for Americans that they simply do not deserve.

Emily and I will probably never see each other again no matter what Judge Doyle in DeLand rules if he ever has the chance to hear the case.

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US Embassy Refuses Visa for Emily's Dad

I attended the US Embassy London last week for a 9am interview for a visa to travel for the forthcoming trial in October and also to exercise my court ordered visitation with Emily.

After being kept waiting for 7 1/2 hours (yes that's right, seven and a half hours!) I was interviewed at 4.30pm.

My request for a visa to go see Emily was denied as I had been rendered ineligible under s3A(2)INA as I had "harassed the American citizen mother" - I produced my court orders for access and the findings of the Florida court that I had not been harassing or domestically violent together with the order finding the mother in criminal contempt for her behaviour as well as the false police reports filed by Captain Alan Osowski, his deposition and my telephone records (see earlier posts). I was advised that "attorneys in Washington DC had evaluated the orders" and I was still not allowed a visa for court ordered access.

My application for a visa to go for the trial required "administrative processing" and I received the reply today - I am ineligible as I cannot demonstrate sufficient connection to the United Kingdom and I am a presumed immigrant to the United States.

The letter from the US Embassy London and my response are below - enjoy !

Captain Osowski - False Police Reporting

Captain Alan Osowski is the District Commander of DeBary Florida and is a senior member of Volusia County Sheriff's Office in Florida.

He was promoted to Captain by Sheriff Johnson in February 2003 and is a 26 year veteran of the force.

In October 2003, the British High Court in London UK heard a Hague Convention hearing filed by Barbara Greig of the US Department of State on behalf of Emily's mom, Sheila Fuith, to determine the jurisdiction for where custody proceedings should take place. The High Court ruled, very bizarrely, that Florida had jurisdiction (but more on that later), and Emily was sent to Florida for hearings to take place BUT on condition she was to commence receiving medical treatment forthwith for her eye condition (and to date that still has not happened).

No sooner had her mother arrived in Florida than Sheila commenced filing complaints to the British and Florida police that she was being stalked, harassed and threatened by Emily's dad (4,000 miles away in England). Ignoring the British High Court order she went into hiding and denied Emily her medical treatment for her blindness among many other things.

On 24th November 2003, Emily's mom, Sheila Fuith and her friend, Dana Burtchell also known as Dana Colston, made a police complaint taken by Captain Osowski.



I am not particularly interested in demonstrating the falsity of Sheila Fuith's allegations here but rather to demonstrate the falsity of Captain Osowski's reporting.

So is this false reporting by Captain Osowski?

Firstly, note the first paragraph on the extract - "Captain Osowski viewed some of the saved numbers on the V1 (Fuith's) cell phone.....the numbers were verified by Captain Osowski and Ms Pat Scott (03)"

Now look at the telephone numbers Captain Osowski records - some of these numbers were in use at this time, but some were not - note the bottom telephone number 011 441 621 772693 and note the date of the police report....November 24th 2003 and now look at the following fax from British Telecom the line provider in the UK:



On p2 you can see that the telephone number ++1621 772693 had been DISCONNECTED on January 7th 2003 - THERE IS THEREFORE NO POSSIBILITY THAT CAPTAIN OSOWSKI "VERIFIED" OR OTHERWISE LOGGED THIS NUMBER AS CALLING THE MOTHER'S CELL PHONE ALMOST A YEAR LATER.

The second proof that Captain Osowski falsified his police report comes from his own testimony - on February 10th 2005, Captain Osowski and other VCSO officers were deposed:










Captain Osowski's report was passed to the British police to be investigated by Detective Gary Biddle of Essex Police in the UK after Sheila had also made allegations to the British police there.

Detective Biddle of the British police concluded that Sheila Fuith was making FALSE ALLEGATIONS and moving around the US to hide Emily from her dad and to evade the legal process in the US.

On 29th April 2004, a domestic violence injunction hearing was heard before Judge Doyle in DeLand Florida - Judge Doyle dismissed the petition ruling it was clear that the proceedings were being brought to gain advantage in the custody case.

Notwithstanding this, Barbara Greig at the US Department of State used this and other VCSO reports to make a case for Emily's dad to be arrested by US Immigration and deported when he had been cleared of all the allegations by Judge Doyle in Florida - here's her fax to US Immigration:



In short, Barbara Greig and Sheila Fuith failed to stop Emily's dad from bringing proceedings, failed to keep him out of the country and failed to obtain a domestic violence injunction against him....so they misled US Immigration to do the dirty work for them......Emily later disappeared to become classified as missing and endangered and to continue to be denied medical treatment for her blindness.....now WHY would a State Department official ignore a Florida judges ruling, a British High Court ruling and a 2 month investigation by British police and do this ?

The answer I believe, is linked to why the British High Court would send a British child to Florida for custody hearings when Florida did not have jurisdiction AND assist in Emily's initial abduction from the UK in February 2003....more on that later.