{"id":26196,"date":"2026-05-29T06:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/26196\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T06:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:31:16","slug":"texas-dad-says-daughter-was-taken-to-germany-despite-custody-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/26196\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas dad says daughter was taken to Germany despite custody order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8x2i10tyboqzjnnv.jpg\" alt=\"Desperate dad fights to bring daughter home\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/video\/fmc-pbgtm3qktht3u8hv\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Desperate dad fights to bring daughter home<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">A Texas father says he has spent years fighting to bring his young daughter home after her mother allegedly took the child to Germany despite a Walker County court granting him sole custody.\u00a0 FOX 26&#8217;s Randy Wallace explains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A Texas father says he has spent years fighting to bring his young daughter home after her mother allegedly took the child to Germany despite a Walker County court granting him sole custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;I&#8217;ve followed the law&#8221;: Father frustrated by lack of progress <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Thomas Angel says repeated appeals to the U.S. State Department and elected officials have produced few answers, leaving him fearful his daughter could remain overseas indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The last time Thomas Angel saw his 4-year-old daughter, Polly, was December 19, 2025 during a teleconference from Germany.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Two years ago, he says his ex-wife took their daughter to Germany, even though he was granted sole custody in Walker County.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The U.S. State Department is the agency tasked with helping parents who&#8217;ve had their children taken to other countries by non-custodial parents.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Angel says he&#8217;s spent years in an intense legal battle to get his daughter back to no avail.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He says the inaction on the part of the State Department led him to file an OIG complaint, which appears to be ongoing.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Angel has requested help from U.S. Representative Pete Sessions and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, but has yet to hear back\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve followed the letter of the law, and nothing is being done,&#8221; Angel said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">His biggest fear?<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;That she&#8217;s not going to be returned, and she&#8217;ll be forgotten,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Desperate dad fights to bring daughter home A Texas father says he has spent years fighting to bring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6324,5,42,4627,26976,92],"class_list":["post-26196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-germany","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}