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I'm not saying that the guy is St. Joseph reincarnate. But legally he is in the right, and as a conservative believer in the rule of law that is what I care about. If you believe that the moral facts are grossly out of whack with the legal facts, please outline how we could change the laws to make kidnapping legal when the father is less than perfect. Also please quote sources as to him looking for money, I don't see anything about that either here or in the CourtTV article. He seems to be looking for two things, one, a relationship with his son, and two, public formal acknowledgement that the Smileys committed a crime of which he is one of the victims. Which is true. His balancing of these two priorities may be graceless and inept but that hardly makes him a moral monster. And any claim that he is an opportunist, just now coming on the scene, is refuted by the information in the CourtTV article about the proactive steps he was taking around the time of the kidnapping and that he sustained his relationship with the mother at least long enough to have two more children.