News reports indicate that the District Attorney’s Office of Santo Domingo has sent the case of abducted four-year old Ricardo Baio Mejía to the Juzgado de Instrucción de la Sexta Circunscripción, a first level courtroom. Meanwhile, a judge of the Court of Minors of Milan, Italy, ordered that the father of the boy, architect Antonio Baio return the child or else they will act. Antonio Baio is a fugitive of Dominican justice. Young Baio’s mother, Indhira Mejía placed a complaint with the District Attorney’s office, after her son, who had been vacationing with his father in the DR, called her from Italy. The mother had custody over the boy, and the divorce sentence had granted vacation visitation rights to the father. Leonora Martínez Conde is coordinating the case, as part of her job at the Departmento de Familia y Menores de la Fiscalía. She explained that Italian judge Maria Cristina Rota has notified the Italian Police of the whereabouts of Mr. Baio at Via A. Diaz No. 2920004 Bernareggio in Milano so that he be persuaded to return the boy. The boy was kidnapped aboard the ferry that travels to Puerto Rico, from where they traveled to Italy. The child had an impediment to depart the country placed at all migration ports. The woman inspector at the Port of Santo Domingo said that while she checked the computer for the father, she did not bother to check to see if the son had an impediment to leave.
