The day has come that Juana Rivas wished she would never come. Having spent a month running away from justice with their children, this morning he has given his 11 and 3 year old children to the Civil Guard. Now the children will go to court until they are picked up by their father, the Italian Francesco Arcuri, convicted of abuse in 2009.
If not done today before five in the afternoon as a deadline, the mother was exposed to the judge to adopt precautionary measures such as lose parental rights of their children and be arrested again for not saying where the children are and for their criminal repetition.
August, a fateful month for Juana Rivas
The month began unaccounted since last July 26 when he fled with his children to avoid giving them to his father, Francesco Arcuri, sentenced in 2009 to three months in prison for abuse (which he did not have to comply).
On August 8, Court of First Instance 3 of Granada, issued a arrest warrant against Juana Rivas for unlawful retention of minors.
On August 10, the Granada Hearing ruled against Juana Rivas about the nullity of the sentence that forced her to hand over her children. He gave three days to give his children to the father. Order that breached, again.
Juana's lawyers decided to appeal to the Constitutional Court, but he rejected the appeal for amparo for having been filed after the deadline.
On August 22, the mother appeared at the Courts of Granada where was arrested and after testifying before the judge he was provisionally released and returned home with his children.
Last Friday, the judge of the criminal court 2 of Granada gave a Ultimatum to Juana Rivas and also charged his family and his two advisors.
He has no choice and this morning He has decided to hand over his children to the Civil Guard units before the deadline expired.
Now he must continue his battle, but separated from his children.
What will happen now?
The children will travel to Italy with Juana Rivas's ex-husband, where they will be supervised by technicians from the municipal social services of Carloforte, where the father resides.
On October 15, social services will issue a first report on the evolution of coexistence and the treatment they receive from the father, who so far has provisional shared custody.
On October 31, Juana Rivas and Francesco Arcuri must appear before the Italian judges for the shared custody.
