Monday, March 31, 2008

Mother rescues son from a foreign land...


The NY Post reports that "It began with an e-mail on her MySpace page: "He is fine. He is healthy. I will try to get him back for you."
Queens schoolteacher Tiffany Rubin's heart leapt. After months of searching, it was the first real lead that her 7-year-old son, kidnapped by his father and taken to South Korea, could be found.
"I was like, 'Oh, my God,' " she told The Post, recalling how she felt the first time she read the e-mail.
But it would take an ex-CIA agent, a Christian charity, bottles of makeup to conceal her black skin and some cash at the airport to get him back.
The boy wept for his mother while he was held by his father - begging to come home and be reunited with her.
The relationship between Rubin and her boyfriend, Jeffrey Salko, was never storybook. The unmarried couple broke up when their son, Kobe Lee, was 4 months old. They spent the next six years in court fighting over custody.
It wasn't until Salko, who Rubin says wasn't paying child support, was in danger of losing visitation rights that he took a drastic, illegal step. Salko disappeared with the boy last August, when Kobe was on a two-week visit at his Brooklyn home.
Rubin jumped on the Web to try to locate her son.
For weeks, she joined chat groups and pleaded her case to MySpace members in Seoul, where Salko, 37, also known as Kang-Shik Lee, has family. In late November, the MySpace tipster said the boy had been located.
As promised, the tipster contacted the US Embassy. But absent some sign of abuse, the Foreign Service staff and Korean police who visited Salko in December had no authority to remove Kobe.
Rubin, 30, decided to take matters into her own hands. She couldn't afford the five-figure cost of a bounty hunter, so she turned to Michael Miller and his American Association for Lost Children..."

13 comments:

Televisiontraci said...

The internet is an amazing tool! I am so glad this mom got her boy back healthy, happy, and safe.

Bernadette Pasley said...

There are so many MySpace horror stories out there. Good to hear there are some good stories, too.

Anonymous said...

Amazing story, thanks for sharing! :)

The All Seeing Eye said...

And thanks for comment, Traci. This mother sure didn't give up.

The All Seeing Eye said...

Thanks for your comment, Bernadette. With so many bad stories, I had to post this story with a happy ending.

The All Seeing Eye said...

You're welcome, Caoimhin. And thanks for your comments.

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Unknown said...

JUST HEARING ABOUT THIS CASE! THIS WAS A ROTTEN STUNT FOR THIS FATHER TO PULL! THIS GOES ON, WAY TOO MUCH! THE COURTS NEED TO GET TOUGH ON DOMESTIC KIDNAPPING!

benazir khan said...

i seen the lifetime movie made on this on YouTube however i do not blame Tiffany for doing what she did to rescue her son kobe's bio dad is a pos however i looked up the story for accuracy because Hollywood changes names and relations

Anonymous said...

i agree but international kidnapping too this guy is a right pos