Shortcut: I lost custody of my son in a foreign country
Australian True Crime
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4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.
Some of you will remember Jodie Bilborough from her appearance on A Current Affair in 2019.
One of their reporters traveled to Jordan in the Middle East to meet Jodie, who just won custody of her son, Laith, through the Jordanian courts after his father, her ex-husband, Ismat, had prevented her from seeing him for four years. An allegation in which he denies.
The report left us on an optimistic note, although Jodie was still waiting to bring Laith home to live with her as his father had launched a legal appeal.
Jodie joins us on Australian True Crime to tell us what's happened since 2019. It's a long and winding tale that I don't think any of us could have predicted five years ago.
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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
Guest: Jodie Bilborough
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| 0:00.0 | We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July, |
| 0:04.3 | and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already. |
| 0:07.4 | Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show. |
| 0:10.3 | Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests, |
| 0:15.2 | our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in |
| 0:19.9 | Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. |
| 0:26.0 | This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests. |
| 0:29.0 | So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will |
| 0:33.8 | contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian |
| 0:38.4 | true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander |
| 0:42.0 | listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people. |
| 0:47.0 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:59.5 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:07.0 | Some of you will remember Jody Bilbrough from her appearance on a current affair in 2019. |
| 1:18.8 | One of their reporters travelled to Jordan in the Middle East to meet Jody, who just won custody of her son Laith through the Jordanian courts after his father, her ex-husband Ismat, had prevented her from seeing him for four years. |
| 1:32.0 | An allegation in which he denies. |
| 1:35.8 | The ACA report left us on an optimistic note, although Jody was still waiting to bring Lath |
| 1:40.8 | home to live with her as his father had launched a legal appeal. |
| 1:45.0 | Jody joins us on Australian True Crime today to tell us what's happened since 2019. |
| 1:50.0 | It's a long and winding tale that I don't think any of us could have predicted five years ago. |
| 2:00.0 | So Lacedad and I separated in 2014 for a year in Australia and Laith and I were living alone and for that one year he basically was the perfect ex-husband and he worked on me for a year being lovely to get to convince me that you know I was tired and I've been working and I've been doing all the parenting so let's go to |
| 2:23.8 | Jordan for a year and you know you can relax and I work and you can have a lot of time |
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