Zambian woman defends abducting her children

A Zambian woman who had lost custody of her child has defended her decision to abduct him, along with his half-brother, and take them to Africa.

Elizabeth Daka’s ex-husband and another ex-partner are now fundraising to travel to Africa so they can mount a legal challenge in the Zambian courts to bring their sons, Ethan, 7, and Troy, 2, back to Ireland. There is little the Irish courts can do to return the boys to Ireland as Zambia has not signed up to the Hague Convention on Child Abduction.

Elizabeth managed to get her son, Ethan Quarry, out of this country without his passport last April. A court order was in place forbidding her from taking him from the country.