***OT Who owns a child?*** How come this is taking days instead of hours? They wrote the father a letter? What'd they do, post it surface mail via donkey - don't they have telephones in the USA?
Number 1, ask the child "Is this your Dad?" The child is six and can hang onto a tube for a day or two so is obviously fairly with-it. Ask the child what he wants to do.
Number 2, ask the alleged father "Are you the Dad?"
Numnber 3, ask somebody who the child says is a brother, aunt or something, "Who is his father?"
Number 4, ask the government of Cuba who the father is.
Number 5, ask a teacher, doctor or some other people.
Number 6, do a hair strand DNA test for confirmation.
If the answer is consistent across those people [with a 10 year jail term for perjury], deliver the child to the father. So why does it take more than an hour or two?
< The United States has sent a letter to the father of a 6-year-old Cuban boy now in Florida outlining the steps he must take to get him back, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
In a case that has sparked an international dispute and anti-American protests in Cuba, Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder said the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) sent the letter late on Wednesday to the Cuban government.
He told the weekly Justice Department news briefing that the letter will be forwarded to Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who lives in Cuba and who has demanded the return of his son, Elian.
Elian was plucked from the waters between Cuba and the United States on Nov. 25 after a boat carrying illegal Cuban migrants capsized, killing his mother and 10 other people. He currently is staying with relatives in Miami.
Holder said the INS wants to know whether the father can 'prove that, in fact, he is the father of the child, what is the nature of his relationship, and expressing a desire on the part of the INS to interview him at the American interests section (the U.S. diplomatic center) in Havana.'
The boy's Miami relatives say he is a political refugee who would have a better life with them and should stay in the United States.
But the Cuban government, led by President Fidel Castro, says he should be sent back to Cuba. The dispute has led to a number of anti-American protests in Havana.
President Clinton told a news conference on Wednesday that the issue should not involve politics and that the law should be followed.
Holder said that under U.S. law, Cuban law and international law, a parent's wishes tend to be given great weight, assuming the parent has a good relationship with the child.
Holder said a number of preliminary determinations must be made by the INS.
``You have to make sure that the parent has not abandoned the child, has not in any way abused the child, that return of the child to the parent would be in the best interest of the child,' he said.
Holder said birth certificates, baptismal records, family pictures, the testimony of neighbors or other relatives can be used by Juan Miguel Gonzalez as proof that he was the father. He was divorced from the boy's mother.
A U.S. Justice Department official said the one-page letter was signed by Robert Wallis, the district director of the INS. It asked the father to provide any documents, such as school or medical records, establishing his relationship with the boy and giving him parental rights.
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With WWeb, this could all be done really fast! With images and everything. Send the child a video of the alleged father. Send the father a video of the alleged son. Do the same with all the other stuff.
Then pixelate the child and ship him over to Cuba to his father!
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