A mother who exposed the child to her long and hard drug use, her physical abuse of the father, boyfriends' physical abuse of her, and boyfriends who had been charged with molesting their own children and ordered to have no contact with them, nonetheless got the child returned from Virginia to Ontario under the Hague Convention, conditioned on agreeing to, and following through with, "undertakings" to (1) have a consent order that gave her joint custody vacated, thus returning to the previous order that gave the father physical custody, and (2) get criminal charges and investigations against the abductor dropped.
The couple had a long history of litigation, and other involvement with courts and social services, in Ontario, and the Virginia federal court noted that those courts and agencies were the proper and competent place for all that to continue.
The abductor also apparently raised issues of habitual residence, breach and exercise of custody rights, and acquiescence, but these were easily disposed of and should have been obvious in the first place.
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