Ricardo Acosta v. Anne Marie Acosta

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Ricardo Acosta (Ricardo) filed a petition in Minnesota seeking the return of his children to Peru, pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Hague Convention), opened for signature Oct. 25, 1980, T.I.A.S. No. 11670, and its implementing legislation, the International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA), 42 U.S.C. § 11601 et seq. After a two-day evidentiary hearing, the district court 1 denied Ricardo’s petition, finding that although the children’s mother, Anne Acosta (Anne), had wrongfully retained the children in the…