Posted on10. June 2022, 18:36
Verónica Saldaña has kidnapped her children to keep them away from their father. Now the Spanish police have tracked her down to Boudry NE.
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Verónica Saldaña and her children were tracked down by Spanish police in Boudry NE in early June 2021.
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Two seven-year-old twins I. and J. were kidnapped by their mother in July 2020.
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Saldaña has always argued in court that her ex abused children. They couldn’t testify because they were autistic. According to witnesses, none of this is true.
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The Spanish woman Verónica Saldaña was wanted for almost a year – the Spanish police have now discovered the mother of two children in Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel. Saldaña of the city of Pozuelo de Alarcón in the suburbs of Madrid disappeared with her seven-year-old twins after disobeying an order from a Spanish family court. A mother kidnapped her children in a custody dispute with her ex. She never sent her children to school, and the boys reportedly never saw a doctor.
As reported by the newspaper “El Mundo”, the Spanish police initially followed in the footsteps of their mother from Madrid to Tarragona, where part of her family lives. Saldaña is said to have illegally moved to France with her children, eventually settling in Switzerland.
Children have no contact with other children
When Swiss police tracked a house in Boudry last Thursday where her Spanish colleagues had died, the children were locked in an apartment with their maternal grandparents, the mother was gone. The seven-year-olds who don’t speak French didn’t go to school here either. They had no contact with other children.
However, the children were placed in a Swiss nursing home, and two days later Verónica Saldaña went to court in Bern. Her ex Jose Manuel Ortiz also traveled to Switzerland to look after her sons.
Mom accused her ex of child sexual abuse
The case has been occupied by the Spanish judiciary for a year and a half, when a dispute over the right to custody broke out between the spouses. In court, Saldana accused her ex of child sexual abuse. The mother said that the sons cannot talk about their father being abused because they are autistic. But twins have never been declared autistic by a doctor. “Since the courts disagreed with her, she took the children with her and reported me repeatedly,” says Ortiz.
When the conflict between Saldaña and Ortiz began, the Spanish social welfare agency said the children were in a neglected state. Several witnesses testified at hearings that the mother had “completely neglected” her sons. One of the witnesses stated that they also did not have autism. “I always saw them as normal children, they played with me and acted normally.”
Saldaña’s best friend initially helped her mother escape – until she found out that everything was “set up” to keep José Manuel Ortiz away from his sons. After Saldaña suddenly left the woman’s home to be searched by the police, a friend found a package of pediatric sedatives.
Now the Swiss judiciary must work
According to police sources, Saldaña resorted to stealth tactics “typical of organized crime or terrorism” during her escape. In addition, she is said to have been advised by the organization “Infancia Libre” (translated as “Free Childhood”), writes “El Mundo”. This would help women who want to take their children from their fathers by procedural tricks.
The fact that Saldaña had settled in Boudry NE was not accidental, say the Spanish authorities. She probably chose the village because of its proximity to the French border in order to quickly flee to another country. In addition, investigators assume that Saldaña was instructed by “Infancia Libre” to flee to a country that is part of the Schengen Agreement, but not to the European Union, to try to apply the new father access procedure to continue to disturb the children. Now the Spanish judiciary has asked the Swiss courts to take action.
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