Justice for Jacob: Help Bring a Canadian Child Home

My son’s life is being shaped by forces beyond his control and beyond mine, too. I’m writing to ask you to keep supporting us as I face something no parent ever expects: fighting for my child through a system that prioritizes the privacy of the privileged over the rights of our children.

I’m sharing it because stories like ours happen quietly, every single day and too often, no one is paying attention.

I haven’t seen or heard from my son since February 1, 2024. Canada enabled his abduction and has remained silent ever since.

Jacob is a five-year-old Canadian child who was taken abroad under a Canadian court order later declared wrongful retention. Despite those rulings, police enforcement orders, and Canada’s binding international obligations, Jacob remains concealed in Vietnam, a country with no Hague protections, where return is nearly impossible.

He fell through every safeguard in Ontario: the courts, the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, the police, his family, and finally, and devastatingly, me, his parent.

Every attempt to seek truth or enforcement has been met with bureaucracy, silence, or calculated delay. What remains is a mother left to fight, alone, against the disappearance of her own child.

This campaign supports the work Canada should already be doing:

the translations, filings, investigative steps, and safe extraction needed to locate Jacob, bring him home, and protect him when he returns.

I’ve also been using my Substack, The Court and Me, to raise funds for these costs and to keep Jacob’s story alive. It’s where I document not only my son’s disappearance, but also the systemic failures, and the people, who allowed it to happen and continue to hide behind process while a Canadian child remains missing.

Your contribution helps me keep fighting for my son and for the truth.

It helps ensure Jacob’s name is not buried under red tape, denial, and diplomatic avoidance or criminality.

Every donation becomes part of the record.

It tells Jacob, and this country, that justice is not optional, that truth matters, and that no child should disappear through the silence of their own State or in protection of those who break the law.

Please give generously, and be part of the story.

Your presence here means more than you know to Jacob and I right now.