Cristina Mariscal is the mother of the two missing children.


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Cristina Mariscal is the mother of the two missing children.

The runaway mother who he kidnapped his two sons To prevent them from being vaccinated once morest Covid, he has handed over the children, who are currently in court, as confirmed to EL MUNDO by the father’s lawyer, José Javier Toucedo. Cristina Mariscal Copano, 46, took his children with him on December 16 to prevent their father, with judicial authorization, from administering the coronavirus vaccine. The woman’s father and ex-husband, David You, has received information from the Civil Guard that the woman has handed over the children to a court in Seville, and is on her way to pick them up. The one of Cristina Mariscal It is the first known case in Spain of a parent who allegedly kidnaps his children to prevent them from being vaccinated. The woman’s lawyer, the lawyer Borja Gómez Martínez-Fresneda, has also confirmed to EL MUNDO that the children are perfectly well and has defended that the mother’s intention was exclusively “to defend them from the possible serious side effects” of the vaccines. The lawyer maintains that Cristina Mariscal has not committed any crime because, for the abduction of minors of which the father of the children has been accused to take place, their retention would have to have been unjustified. And, in this case, “there are more than enough justifications,” he points out, since the woman fears that the children will be vaccinated once morest their will and the interests of the minors. The Penal Code It establishes that “the parent who, without just cause, abducts his minor child will be punished with a prison sentence of two to four years and special disqualification from exercising the right of parental authority for a period of four to ten years.” The court investigating the abduction of minors had issued an order of “search and presentation”, according to the woman’s lawyer. For this reason, Cristina Mariscal has traveled with her current partner to make herself available to the judge and deliver the children. The lawyer, who trusts that his client can return home, has also reported that the children they have recorded a video in which both demonstrate once morest being vaccinated once morest the covid. Prior to surrendering herself, Cristina Mariscal had sent the father of her children, the court and the children’s school a burofax in which she expressed her intention to bring the minors before the judge and to surrender herself.