A pair of grandparents who hid their two-year-old granddaughter rather than hand her over to her mother said on Tuesday that they would adopt the child, despite an earlier court decision granting custody of the child to her Filipina mother.
The baby girl was born out of wedlock to Arao Bayby Candelaria Villanueva in Taiwan in 2008, with Taiwanese Chen Tien-sheng (陳天生) recorded as the father. Villanueva worked as a domestic helper, but left her job four years ago when she met Chen.
The two lived happily until Chen died in August last year and Villanueva, facing repatriation, began filing for custody of her baby.
The court delivered its ruling in May granting her custody.
According to Taiwanese law, if one parent dies, the living parent gets custody of the child.
“How could the child be better off in the Philippines? She should stay in the family and be reunited with us,” said the grandmother, who has been hiding the child since the court ruling.
She said that Villanueva was married in the Philippines with four children and that it was doubtful she would be able to raise a fifth.
The grandmother also claimed to have reached an agreement with the mother on adopting the little girl a month ago, but the Taitung District Court said it had not received any such agreement from Villanueva, who is being held at a detention center in Yilan County.
The district court said the grandparents should give up custody of the child and reunite her with her mother as soon as possible.
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