Lawyer says change of custody order that allegedly triggered abduction of Cochrane girls was unjust But the father s lawyer said the Court of Queen s Bench judge was well within her powers to switch custody based on O Driscoll Zak s ongoing conduct
Author of the article: Kevin Martin
Publishing date: May 04, 2021 • May 4, 2021 • 1 minute read The Calgary Courts Centre was photographed on Monday, May 3, 2021. Photo by Gavin Young/Postmedia
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The change of custody of two Cochrane girls that allegedly triggered their abduction at the hands of their maternal grandmother and aunt should never have happened, their mother’s lawyer argued Tuesday.
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The girls went missing after a Court of Queen’s Bench judge ordered interim custody of them by their father at a hearing that day.
When the father went to pick them up at their Cochrane residence, Leonine and Wyatt and their grandmother and aunt were missing.
The girls were located in B.C. on April 14, and the grandmother and aunt were charged with one count each of abducting a person under the age of 14, abduction in contravention of a custody order, unlawful confinement and abduction of a child with intent to deprive a parent who has their lawful care.
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The mother of two young girls who went missing in the aftermath of a bitter divorce has lost a bid for a stay of the court’s decision to grant full custody to the father.
The decision came down Thursday one month after the disappearance of five-year-old Leonine O’Driscoll-Zak and two-year-old Wyatt O’Driscoll-Zak, who were last seen in Cochrane on March 12. That same day, the father was given custody of the girls.
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