The father of Jorge “JoJo” Morales, the 6-year-old Miami boy with autism who was found in Canada months after he went missing, denies he kidnapped his son.
On Tuesday, JoJo’s father, whose name is also Jorge Morales, was in court asking for a judge to dismiss the kidnapping charge.
“My client Jorge had the legal right to take the child at the moment he had the child. He just failed to return the child,” said Jay White, Morales’s attorney. “In my opinion, that is not kidnapping.”
Morales, along with his mother Lilliam Morales, were charged for taking the child from Miami and kidnapping him to Canada on Aug. 27, 2022.
Both were taken into custody by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Oct. 30, 2022, after JoJo was found with his father at a Walmart in New Brunswick.
White claims his client is only guilty of custodial interference and failing to return the child after …