There has to be much more to the story. Custody doesn’t work the way she is describing. The cops would be all over him, even in another state, if he didn’t have legal rights. She is likely a loon and much of this is made up.
She’s obviously an idiot but in her defense child custody stuff here in Florida really is that messed up. My extended family has a case in Tampa where the CPS folks were notified and finally convinced that our relative was a pedophile, so after several years they finally took the two little kids away - and placed them with the pedophile’s parents who do nothing to keep him away and have cut off ties with the rest of the family, including the pedophile’s first set of destroyed children, rather than him.
Florida CPS is so screwed up, if I ever had a run in with them my kid and I would be over the border into the next state so fast it wouldn’t be funny.
In defense of the woman, she stupidly reconciled with him because he told her he loved her. Then, during the “reconciliation” he grabbed the kids and took off. So, at the time he took them there wasn’t a custody issue as he along with his original wife were living together as husband and wife and had shared custody of the kids.