A doctor who ‘abducted’ her young son from Denmark and returned to SA in September last year, ‘disappearing without trace’ some months later, has been declared a fugitive from justice, notes a Sunday Times report.

And in an unusual order granted in the KZN High Court (Durban) on Friday by Judge Rashid Vahed, at the behest of the child’s Danish father, Bjarne Sorensen, the police have been directed to list and circulate his ex-wife’s name, Kalavani Moodley, on the national criminal record system, and use all technology available to find her and bring her to court to explain why she should not go to jail for defying court orders.

The police have to report to the court by the end of the month on their progress.

Moodley, who has hired and fired five sets of lawyers in SA, was in court in early February, facing contempt proceedings for refusing to let Sorensen see the child. The judge told her to fetch the child, now aged four, immediately.

She left court and has not been seen since.

The couple divorced in April 2019, and in September that year Moodley asked to travel to SA for a funeral.

Sorenson agreed, but soon Moodley broke off contact with him. Sorensen received a lawyer’s letter saying she would not return.

Sorensen began legal proceedings and in February when Judge Peter Olsen ruled that the child had been ‘abducted’ and must return to Denmark.

Social worker Kubesh Reddy reportedly said the woman 'is doing everything within her power to alienate the child from the father,’ and has ‘complete disrespect for the law’ and ‘I have no doubt she will not return him to Denmark’.

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