Having led Dutch authorities to believe that native-born and raised American citizens, Celina (14) and Stephanie (11) Yavelow were Dutch citizens, their Swiss mother, Monique Fasel, came to the US with a Hague Convention request and a fraudulent document she claimed was a Dutch custody order. To kidnap the children, she duped the National Center for Missing Children (who fueled a frenzied media manhunt), the Maryland Courts (who domesticated the phony foreign order), and the FBI (who wasted a fortune tracking composer/author Christopher Yavelow and his children).
On October 21, 1999, a SWAT team surrounded the family. In a heart-wrenching standoff, the two teenagers, who had spent more than half their lives in America, shielded their father pleading, "Our daddy has not kidnapped us. We are here of our own free will! We want to stay in America. We are American citizens!" Then, to avoid the Hague Convention hearing, and in defiance of a court order requiring Fasel to stay in America, everyone looked the other way as she kidnapped the children and fled to the Netherlands.
At Fasel's request, the Dutch had stripped the father's parental rights earlier in October (1999). Thus, Fasel violated that International Parental Kidnapping Act which makes it a crime to remove American children from the United States with the intent to obstruct a parent's parental rights. Fasel and the cults of which she is a member continue to hold Celina and Stephanie Yavelow hostage and incommunicado while the children are completely de-Americanized.
Yavelow returned to the Netherlands in August, 2000, for a custody hearing. The hearing was postponed until December 7. The judges questioned Yavelow and Fasel for 5 minutes, and promised a custody decision on January 25, 2001. They will provide a visitation schedule on June 10.
Christopher was not able to contact his children for 420 days as of December 14, 2000.
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