Mum on run from religious drug cult in US wins battle to keep kids in Scotland
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A mum has won a legal battle in Scotland’s highest court to protect her two young children from a religious drug cult.
The unnamed woman fled to Scotland from the USA with them 20 months ago to escape the Santo Daime movement of which she was once a member.
Her former husband launched a legal action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh last month (July) accusing his wife of abducting their children.
However one of Scotland’s most senior judges Lady Tait this week ruled that the youngsters – aged nine and seven – should remain in Scotland. The father, who was also unnamed, sought the return of his children on the basis that they had been unlawfully removed from the USA.
The court was told that the couple married in 2016 and divorced seven years later. They met through a religious movement named Santo Daime, described in court as a religious drug cult involving the use of the psychoactive drug Ayahuasca.
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