Kelly Rutherford urges U.S. leaders to help parents bring back their children

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Kelly Rutherfold, who’s in the middle of her own custody struggle with ex-husband Daniel Giersch, detailed her battle to bring the woman eight-year-old child Hermes and girl Helena, six, home to The united states.

The children are now living in Monaco and France due to their father, but are currently spending summer time using their mother after judges in California and Monaco agreed she can enjoy a vacation with them.

The former Gossip Girl star travelled to Washington, D.C. and told politicians, “Nobody within nation seems eager or able to perform almost anything to assist bring my American children home, although this is basically the country that delivered all of them away.

“i could only see this as a legal kidnapping by a California judge forcing my kiddies to reside abroad for way too long the other countries take close control over their lives. I just ask each of you right here now exactly how it will be possible that two American citizens have-been bought by their particular federal government to live in exile in a foreign nation?”

@KellyRutherford speaking with @JacksonLeeTX18 at yesterday’s reading on Rights of American Parents & Children ?❤️ pic.twitter.com/YalA55YDvf

— Todd Krim (@ToddKrim) July 17, 2015

Rutherford ended up being on Capitol Hill to aid the Sean and David Goldman Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act, a law that moved into result final August that gives state dept. officials the expert to bring US kids who have been kidnapped and taken offshore back again to U.S. soil.

The actress’ husband was given complete custody for the couple’s children in 2012.