A St Elizabeth woman is asking the Government to help her get her son back from her husband of 11 years who, she said, sold their assets, moved back to his native India, and has alienated her from her nine-year-old son after she asked for a divorce.

Sheffanesse Brown, 32, from Maggotty, said she finally found the courage to part ways with her husband after visiting his family in Mumbai, India and seeing first-hand how abusive her father-in-law was towards her mother-in-law. “All I could think about was, that was going to be me when I get older,” Brown told the Jamaica Observer.

Brown, who does not want her current address to be disclosed, said she is at her wits’ end because her husband has prevented her from contacting or seeing her son, who she last saw in April 2017. According to Brown, she has been trying to get back her son ever since, but several Jamaican lawyers have told her that they are unable to help because Jamaica has no jurisdiction in India.(Jamaica Observer)…[+]