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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Florida DCF - Paedophiles and Protective Custody - supported by the State Department ?

I reported Emily's medical neglect to Florida's Department of Children & Families in April 2004 and the case was assigned to Investigator Roberta Miranda of the DeLand office.

I was asked to submit any documentation I had in connection with Emily's medical condition and other paperwork relevant to the concerns for Emily's care and welfare.

I provided Investigator Miranda with copies of the private investigators report concerning Emily's contact with Leslie Merriam - a convicted child sex offender and a lifetime registrant on the Wisconsin Sex Offenders Register. Emily was in the care of this paedophile as a consequence of her mothers attempt to have her unlawfully adopted by Dale Merriam and his wife, Shannon Bodin in Wisconsin.



"All I can say is that there was going to be no paper work and no money changing hands. That Emily was going to be given over to my son."

Investigator Miranda then advised me that children being given to other people to care for them is a common practice in the US and that Emily being in the care of this paedophile and his family was PROTECTIVE CUSTODY ARRANGEMENT.

The DCF file of Investigator Miranda is in my posession - I am unable to publish the file as that is a violation of law however the file cites Barbara Grieg of the State Department once more involved in the matter and the final report states

Mother has the support of the State Department.

As a responsible, loving caring parent I would not allow a convicted paedophile to look after a child, certainly not one of mine - placing Emily into the care of a CONVICTED PAEDOPHILE is more properly called CHILD ENDANGERMENT not protective custody.

What does Sheila Fuith, Emily's mother have to say about this ?