Article 7 (Registration, name, nationality, care): All children have the right to a legally registered name, officially recognised by the government. Children have the right to a nationality (to belong to a country). Children also have the right to know and, as far as possible, to be cared for by their parents.
Article 8 (Preservation of identity): Children have the right to an identity – an official record of who they are. Governments should respect children’s right to a name, a nationality and family ties.
Article 9 (Separation from parents): Children have the right to live with their parent(s), unless it is bad for them. Children whose parents do not live together have the right to stay in contact with both parents, unless this might hurt the child.
Article 10 (Family reunification): Families whose members live in different countries should be allowed to move between those countries so that parents and children can stay in contact, or get back together as a family.
Thanks sod... there is much more on the other PDF files. Those are just brief descriptions.
The whole key to this is the child is not a Bahamian as in she is not of Bahamian Blood and she is not a citizen of the Bahamas. She cannot be until she applies for it at the age of 18.
Basically she is a hostage of the Bahamian government now.
Opri is a smart lawyer and I am sure she sprung this in the judge the last time they were in front of him and these talking heads on TV including the Bahamian lawyers are probably not aware of this international agreement because this issue has never happened in the Bahamas before. The agreement is fairly new to the Bahamas. I think they signed on to it in 2002.