Mother accused of Abington kidnapping held on $25000 bail - The Patriot Ledger
Coelho’s attorney Michael Szymanski said that a probate court judge recently ordered that Gomes “had no jurisdiction over the status of the children at this time due to the children being out of the country for three years. ” The children had lived with Coelho’s parents in Brazil since 2012 before recently returning back to Massachusetts. She’s got a very good self-defense case. She was attacked and defended herself in order to protect her children,” Cohen said. She went to a hotel on the Cape to vacation with her kids because she hadn’t seen them in two weeks. ” “She might have a right to them by way of being the mother but I don’t think she has a right to resort to vigilantism and to go on this type of an escapade. There’s other ways to get the children,” Moynahan said. I think there’s a more sinister side to this than what you’re (Cohen) saying. She did put the children in danger. I don’t think she went down the Cape to go on vacation. I think she was fleeing, which is my opinion, and as a result I think this is a very serious case,” Moynahan said. I’ll never say this is right, but I wasn’t there. When she got trapped by not being able to see them I don’t know the feeling but I don’t know what I would do. ” Source: www.patriotledger.com
