Randy Hyde says His Sons Were Abducted by Their Mother

A father of two is desperately trying to locate his children after they were illegally flown out of the country by their mother on May second.  Missing persons reports were issued last Thursday for brothers Asher and Randy Hyde when the Belize Police Department was informed that the siblings had not been returned to their parent who has sole custody of them.  According to Randy Hyde Senior, the boys were with their mother, Lesly Reyes, who was visiting from the United States for a few days.  Hyde and his ex-wife have been locked in a custody battle over their children.

 

Randy Hyde Sr., Concerned Parent

“My ex-wife contacted me about three weeks ago, requesting that she had access to the kids for the time that she would be here in Belize.  That date was from April twenty-second to Thursday, the second of May.  Normally when she comes in the country, I normally accommodate her in regards to spending time and having time with the kids.  So when she came on the twenty-second, I turned over the kids to her.  I gave her their clothes, along with the kids’ school bags and their devices.  Fast-forward to the second of May when she was supposed to bring back the children.  I received a text about ten or eleven o’clock from her stating that the kids are not feeling well and that she would take them to the hospital.  That raised some red flags for me because my children don’t normally get sick, and she also mentioned that she was going to extend her stay up to Sunday which was yesterday.  I told her I had no problem with that, but Thursday was my oldest son’s birthday so I explained to her, “you can have them, but I need to come and pick them up to take them out to get something to eat because it’s RJ’s birthday.  I got no response from that text.  I called several times, got no response.  I figured something was wrong, so what I did, I went to the Immigration Office and I asked him to please give me information in regards to if anybody had come to take out any passports for my children.  I found out that passports were taken out for them from June 2022 which is extremely strange because I have the kids’ old passport and I was questioning how that was possible.  How could somebody take out passports for the children if they did not turn in the old passports.  I was told that they did not know what happened.”