As the World Turns - MESSAGE BOARDS

I have had with this lawless show. No more. As a cop I can no longer watch such a constant joke. Making a joke of law this is as bad a Reno 911

But if Meg said she gave him permission to take Eliza on a little trip...even if they knew she was lying, how could they arrest him? The mother said he could take her, she just forgot!

calliope, you are right if Meg says she gave him permission then they can't do anything to Paul, but they can arrest Meg for filing a false police report and force her to decide if she wants to go to jail or if she wants Paul to go to jail. Also the State could press charges and call Meg as a witness and she would have to decide whether to perjure herself or tell the truth.

Hey BiRanger, here is what made me mad today, Carly running out the door jumping in her car and driving down to the station to see Rosanna. Didn't she just get arrested for DUI a couple weeks ago? I have a friend who got a DUI and he didn't drive for 6 months. ATWT has totally blew off the seriousness of the crime Carly committed.

The whole show and the writing is terrible - it is going to be cancelled like GL if this keeps up!!! Unbelievable crap...

How could it be considered kidnapping, when you have custody???????????????

The writing is TERRIBLE.

Originally Paul did have custody when he left.
He knew he was about to be "found out" so he ran.
I seriously don't understand why he was even considered a "kidnapper" at this time. Another thing that bothers me is this..we all know Paul paid off that babysitter..but how does a court know for certain? What taking the word of a girl being brought in by a distraught mother is enough? WTF?
Yes Paul was wrong, but what he did was not technically illegal.
Along with the bending of the law, I still don't get why ANY judge(and in real life they probably wouldn't) would take their "word" about a serious matter like that.
Now with Meg saying she gave Paul permission, that opens up a whole other scenario. He could go for joint custody, and say that Meg paid that sitter to get her baby back. See where I'm going with this?

There are these new things called financial records where you can see how much money people take out of their bank accounts, and there are these things called security cameras that catch images of people spending huge sums of money in places like motels, airports, clothing stores and other places. It wouldn't take much to show a babysitter with no money all of sudden starts spending lots of money and the amount she is spending just happens to match the amount withdrawn from Paul's account, not to mention Meg doesn't have enough money for her own place and is living at home with her mom so I doubt she is buying anyone off.
The police put out an amber alert and had a manhunt going on in search of Paul because he was breaking the law once the judge resend the custody order and gave custody back to Meg and Paul was made aware of this by Meg and Barbara. If you avoid the law to keep from finding out your breaking the law that doesn't make it any less illegal.

How about phone records?
There there is Damian who over heard Paul talking to the babysitter on the phone. So you have the babysitter coming forward, Damian colaborating her story with what he heard Paul saying. What I have a problem with is how people excuse Paul breaking the law and blame Meg for everything and she hasn't broken law one where this entire Eliza fight is concerned. The Police don't put out Amber alerts because someone might have been kidnapped.