Yanet Leal Concepción, the woman of Cuban origin, whose six-year-old son he remained kidnapped by his father for two monthsrelated story details to help others who are going through something similar or have lost faith and do not know how to use the resources available for this type of case.
“I would have liked to have had a healthy relationship with the father and we always tried by all means, but there was a very big split on his part. We practically became his enemies, I, the teacher, the child’s therapists, we were all enemies,” said Yanet Leal in an extensive interview with journalist Juan Manuel Cao (America Tevé).
“I thought the worst. The only thing that took me a little bit of comfort was that this was so premeditated and he planned it so much, but so much that it took me a little comfort that if he planned it so much, his project didn’t should be ready so soon,” he said of the kidnapping.
underline that The religious bigotry her ex-partner of Puerto Rican descent and Seventh-day Adventist adopted after their split in 2019 added to her concerns.
The young woman emphasized that “it’s not because of the religion itself” but because her ex-husband has taken her behavior to another level that she associates with psychiatric problems.
“Unfortunately, this is one of those instances where religion has been used in the not-so-correct sense of religion. Apparently he was paranoid, he said that the government was conspiring with the churches against him and that Jesus was coming and that the devil lived in many people and those are little comments that I kept hearing from my son,” says Yanet.
“Something was wrong with the father … he told the child that before the age of 8 he had to go to paradise,” adds the clearly moved mother, who asserts that although she took the statement to court, she did not enforce it could be more than a recommendation for a psychiatric evaluation.
He also shares that Her ex-husband didn’t want the kid to go to therapy, or places like Disney, cruises, or other types of activities of that nature, only nature parks.
At the time of the kidnapping, they were awaiting a court date that would decide many pending custody issues, including schedules and therapy for the child he didn’t want.
She had the first signs that her father might be planning something, says the young woman, when she found out that he had sold his house in 2021 and was staying in a hotel with him at the time the child was born.
Yanet Leal says she brought the case to court at the time because she was very scared. He also called a kidnapping prevention line, where he was recommended to file an order so the father could not get the minor’s passport.
Eventually, a judge in court ruled that the father would have parental rights, but only during the day.
Yanet Leal, who is a registered nurse and works on the Monroe County Fire Department’s rescue helicopters, says her son has improved greatly over the past few years with therapy and they hope it will continue to do so.
When asked if in the future she could accept a judge dictating some sort of meeting between her son and his father, the woman reiterates that she doesn’t feel right at the moment because everything is very new, but says it’s for the be good to her son and don’t let him be selfish on supervised visits.
On Saturday, August 27, Jorge Gabriel Morales picked up the child at the maternal grandmother’s house and never brought him back.
From the beginning, the authorities spoke of an alleged complicity of the paternal grandmother. Both Jorge Gabriel Morales and his mother they have been wanted since the beginning of September for criminal encroachment on the penitentiary and concealing a minor contrary to an order from a state court.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) bid in mid-October $10,000 reward for tips leads to the whereabouts of the child.
On Sunday October 30th, the little one Gabriel “Jojo” Morales was in Canada accompanied by his father in a Walmart in the city of Moncton in the province of New Brunswick.
Yanet Leal Concepción and little “Jojo” starred on November 1st an emotional reunion at Miami International Airport.