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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Help Free Angie

In October 2015, Angie's Facebook posts stopped.  I think it wasn't until January this year that I found out she was in a federal detention center in Brooklyn.  Here is the brief explanation, along with a petition that you can sign:  Explanation and Petition - for a more detailed explanation including the court case:  Court Case.  Below is why I am trying to help Angie.

I haven't met Angie Vu Ha in person, but met her on Model Mayhem several years ago while searching for models to update my portfolio.  A short time later we became FB friends, and I have been following and commenting on her posts since.  She was living in Singapore, but did a lot of traveling to the U.S. At some point, she contacted me on Google chat and said she was planning to move to LA, and asked if I had any suggestions on where to live.  And wanted to know about schools for her daughter. We chatted a few times, and I emailed her some information. She asked me about DJ jobs here.  I knew she was a DJ, but had no idea that she was rated top 10 sexiest DJ's in the world, playing at the best clubs, so I mentioned doing weddings, LOL.  As time went by, she decided to move instead to New York.  I learned a lot about her from her posts, supported and voted for her when she ran for Playboy's Miss Social, which she won in October, 2012.  Her posts have always been honest, caring, sweet, etc. – she wouldn't have won the Miss Social contest otherwise.  She never forgot to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, Happy Valentine's Day, Happy St Paddy's Day, etc.  In 2015 she became a Playboy Playmate in Venezuela.

You know how they say a picture is worth a thousand words?  Check the two photos below of Angie with had daughter.  I think those are a lot more than a thousand words, and why I'm supporting her.

If you go to the links above, you will see many of her personal friends comments – and they confirm her great qualities, as well as the love she has for her daughter.  Here are some of the comments posted on the petition site, where you can see them, plus many more (you can add your name to the petition there if you agree with what she wrote in the court case): “Angie is a hard-working, talented, responsible, loving mother.” Here's another comment: “I know Angie and Isabella personally. And I know that Isabella is always crying on the phone to Angie to come home and be with her.” And another about Angie: “Isabella has always been with you, and taken care by you and your good parents. Even if you are traveling a lot, you have always tried to fly Isabella to be with you. Even your Mom follows you to the places you have brought them for a good time...and you brought Isabella and your parents along, got a nice holiday.”

Angie didn't have to let the father, who abandoned her long before her daughter was born, be part of her daughters life.  She didn't have to get French citizenship for her daughter who was born in Vietnam, so her daughter could spend time with the father. But she believed it was the right thing to do, and she did it.

Keeping the above in mind, and after reading Angie's Testimony on the court case site, how could the French court have awarded custody to the father?  Did they interview the daughter? Did they interview those who know Angie?  Did they try to find out his relationship with the daughter for her first 5 years of her life (there was none)?  Did they ask why Angie got French citizenship for her daughter?  Did they check the facts of what the father said about Angie, or just believe the lies?  I think the answer is obvious from the outcome. If they did none of these things, shouldn't their decision be overturned?  Shouldn't Angie be free...and with her daughter?

But instead, Angie has been sitting in a Federal Detention Center in Brookly, NY, since Nov 4, 2015, due to an extradition request from France, which is based on the false custody case that the father won in a French Court, after she went out of her way to help him see his daughter (not get custody of).  With Angie in prison, what effect is this having on her daughter, not to mention on her?

Here are two photos of Angie and Isabella, her daughter:








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