Pearl - July 18, 2024


EX WIFE ABDUCTED His SON And FLED TO UKRAINE ｜ THE SITDOWN TRAILER w⧸Pearl


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

231.95427

Word Count

798

Sentence Count

33

Misogynist Sentences

4


Summary

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In this episode, I tell the story of how my son was abducted by his mother and how I was able to get my son back. I talk about how I went to Ukraine to try and get him back.

Transcript

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Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
00:00:00.000 I have, I think, one of the craziest child abduction stories I have ever heard in my life.
00:00:05.980 Started having some issues because my mother-in-law came to stay with us to help the baby.
00:00:10.120 A lot of tension in the house, and ultimately I made the decision to tell my wife that her mom had to go back home.
00:00:16.320 I was woken up at about 2 a.m. by the Orange County Sheriff's Department and was put in handcuffs,
00:00:21.480 accused of domestic violence, taken to jail.
00:00:23.720 She gave her a ruling and said, you know, I'm not granting this restraining order.
00:00:26.960 I don't think this man's abusive.
00:00:28.160 So they still gave her full custody, even after she falsely accused you of abuse?
00:00:33.060 That same day that she got full custody, she got a DUI, hit and run with our son in the car.
00:00:39.760 And she was arrested.
00:00:41.860 My lawyer filed an ex parte for full custody of my son, and I got full custody of my son.
00:00:46.640 And then one time, December 15th or 16th, 2020, she came to get him around 3 p.m. in the afternoon.
00:00:53.960 And she was supposed to bring him back about 6.
00:00:55.800 Six came and went. I called her 610. He didn't answer. I just called the cops. I let them know.
00:01:01.140 They didn't take me seriously at first. We drove over to her residence. There was nobody there.
00:01:05.660 They came back the next day about 11 a.m. and they said, the good news is we found your son,
00:01:10.020 unfortunately. But they said, unfortunately, she took him. They took him out of the country.
00:01:14.120 Without thinking much about it, 30 days later, I just booked the flight and went to Ukraine
00:01:18.080 to see what I could do to bring my son home. The government had me fill out this form,
00:01:21.740 provide all my court documents showing that i had full custody she was charged with three counts
00:01:26.300 of kidnapping this child needs to be returned to his home home uh country but there was really no
00:01:31.340 one to enforce it i mean you can have these orders nobody wants to enforce them there's not much you
00:01:35.260 can do about it you know i was in ukraine on the eastern part of ukraine of mariupol and you know
00:01:39.900 november december when the government was already announcing that war was imminent with russia
00:01:45.020 courts weren't going anywhere his mom wasn't being any more reasonable like you know she was
00:01:49.180 determined my son's grandma brought him to my hotel and i just walked out the back door got
00:01:54.620 into a car drove to another car where there was a driver i hired and we drove off to the capital of
00:01:59.660 kiev like about seven or eight hours into the drive we got pulled over by the police and my
00:02:04.220 son's grandma showed up i was like surrounded by cops and i you know i had my son in my arms
00:02:09.100 damn i still remember that time and it was like that was a tough thing you know because they had
00:02:13.340 these cops and obviously they had guns with them and i gave her my son right i gave my son just to
00:02:18.460 to be cool and then i remember when the war started it was like kind of felt like i should
00:02:23.860 have maybe just died you wanted to see your son so bad that you booked a ticket to go into a war
00:02:30.100 zone to get him i would have gone into a war zone to get him you know it's been going on three years
00:02:35.300 over three years since i've seen him in person and it's hard because of course i want to see my son
00:02:40.020 and it's nice to see him even on facetime but you know he doesn't speak english he doesn't
00:02:43.900 understand english he doesn't speak spanish obviously he just speaks russian and you know
00:02:48.200 that's what they say the things that keep you up at night and i guess where your faith comes in but
00:02:52.800 yeah those are things that i struggle with every day some people have described it as like mourning
00:02:56.680 a child that's still alive but just getting one day to another and i'm just kind of flies by for
00:03:03.200 me i wouldn't say i'm depressed but yeah i just not a lot of things i look forward to these days
00:03:07.940 those people that you assume will help you when they when something like this goes down and and
00:03:13.100 they're like frankly hostile towards you like fbi i talked to they were dismissive and
00:03:17.780 And when you try to follow up with him, they're like angry.
00:03:21.080 Anytime a man complains, like he's just shut down.
00:03:24.180 Nobody wants to hear it.
00:03:25.440 Yeah, I don't know who they're kidding.