On Valentine’s Day Thor Wang, a little American boy of Swedish-Taiwanese descent disappeared. The father, Yen-Chen, a.k.a. Andrew, did not return the boy after his four hour allotted visitation. This was not a custody battle, but parental child concealment. The mother, Maria “Mia” Danielsson Wang has sole custody of baby Thor and the baby’s father Wang had visitation rights only.
The day of the abduction, Mia handed Thor over to Wang for a parental visitation. Ironically, it happened at the Marina del Rey sheriff’s office. It had been ordered by the court it was the place for Mia to hand Thor over to Wang as well as the place where Wang was supposed to hand him back. When Wang didn’t show up at 4pm as scheduled, she called him, and he asked for another hour with the child. Mia agreed and went back to the sheriff’s office at 5pm, but again Wang did not return with the baby. After several hours, Mia was allowed to file a suspicious circumstance report with the sheriff’s, and officers went out to Wang’s home to see if he was there. Yeah, he wasn't.
The next day Mia filed two missing person’s reports, one for Thor and one for Wang. Shortly thereafter, information came stating that Wang and Thor were in Guatemala. Danielsson went there with American authorities to claim Thor back, but since they did not bring the complete documentation from the US court verdict, the case ended up in a court in Guatemala and Thor was placed in an orphanage. After some sorting out, the Swedish Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that Thor was reunited with his mother, and were being kept at a secret location in Guatemala.
Just last week, mother and son returned to Sweden. I tell ya, it just warms the heart to hear the story. But moreso to say Thor Wang.
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