Wife finds photos on Facebook of husband’s wedding

LYNN FRANCE typed two words into the search box on Facebook: the name of the woman she believed her husband was having an affair with.

And there she found wedding photos.

“I was numb with shock, to tell you the truth,” says France, an occupational therapist from Westlake, a Cleveland suburb. “There was like an album of 200 pictures on there. Their whole wedding.”

The husband claimed his marriage to Lynn France was never valid.

France, 41, had grown suspicious when her husband began taking frequent business trips, even leaving the day the couple’s newborn son came home from the hospital.

In October, before leaving for another trip, her husband left a hotel website up on the couple’s computer screen.

“So I actually went there with a girlfriend, just to see for myself for sure,” France says. “He was there with this girlfriend. I said, Hey, I’m his wife. We’ve got a baby.’”

The woman told France that she was engaged to France’s husband.

France said he told her he wouldn’t go through with the wedding.

It wasn’t until she saw the wedding photos that she began divorce proceedings.

Lynn’s husband John France is insisting that he was never married to Lynn in the first place.

In June 2009 Lynn France dropped divorce proceedings when her husband, with whom she has two children, persuaded her to reconcile.

“I just wanted to believe the good when he came to me and said, ‘Let’s reconcile, I love you,’” she says.

But three months ago, Lynn says her husband took their son and said he was going to give him some milk. Minutes later, she heard the car running.

“He threw them in, no car seats, no nothing, and took off,” she says.

John France took them to Florida, where he lives with his new wife and, according to his attorney, is seeking custody of their children.

For Lynn, the only glimpse of her children now comes, ironically, from Facebook.

John France denied he was keeping her from the children, saying he offered to buy her plane tickets to come to Florida.