(Image source from: Indian-American Mother Approaches US Lawmakers for Her Children)

Indian-American mother has approached US lawmakers along with 60 Indian-Americans to help to get her sons (twins) back who were apparently abducted by her ex-husband six years ago.

Bindu Philips, 44, testified before a sub-committee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee with several other parents of abducted children, requesting their help to reunite with her children, Albert Philip Jacob and Alfred William Jacob who are at 14 years of age now.

“I respectfully request that you, the members of the Congress, help me to make my voice heard in a way that shall be meaningful and allow me to be reunited with my children who need the love and nurturing of their mother,” she said.

Philips, from Plainsboro in New Jersey, accused her ex-husband Sunil Jacob of abducting her sons in the name of vacation to after getting separated each other in 2008. “Please help me to end this nightmare that Sunil Jacob has created for my family,” she said. Both Sunil and Philips are from Kerala.

She informed the sub-committee that, she returned to the US four months later on April 9, 2009 with empty hands (without children) as Sunil was reluctant to return her sons.

The parents of abducted children held a candle vigil at the White House and also went to the Indian Embassy to submit a memorandum to the Indian Government. In all the cases, they mentioned their ex-spouses abducted their children after marital disputes and court orders favorable to them.

Image credits: file photo from America bazaar online

-Kannamsai