THE RUNAWAY MOM
Husband hands wife over to paramour
UPON REACHING THE RENDEZVOUS LOCATION HE REVEALED HIMSELF TO HIS WIFE AND HER PARAMOUR, THE HUSBAND TOOK THE MOST UNUSUAL ACTION. INSTEAD OF ATTACKING THE PARAMOUR, AS WAS EXPECTED — THE HUSBAND BEGGED HIM TO LEGALLY TAKE ON THE OBLIGATION OF HIS WIFE
It was reported from Matara, that a mother of three shed her maternal garb and fled with her paramour, leaving her husband and children to fend for themselves. The incident took place late last month, in the Makawita- Nawinna area. The woman whose children were aged four, eight and fifteen, chose to abandon her offspring and live a carefree existence with her younger private-busdriver paramour. Her scorned husband made a complaint to the Police Women and Children’s Bureau, accusing his wife of attempting to leave the country, while abandoning her family. Police located the woman at her paramour’s house and took her into custody. The woman was produced before Court and charged with deserting two children under the age of 12 and released on bail. The Matara Additional Magistrate Ms. Dulani Amarasinghe released the female suspect on Rs. 50,000 personal bail. The Magistrate also ordered the woman to report to the Matara police, every Sunday and to have the Controller of Immigration and Emigration informed about the court order preventing her from leaving the country. Her husband provided the surety necessary for her release and the two left the court, together. The following morning, the woman received a tel- ephone call from her paramour and the two apparently made plans for a secret rendezvous. Suspicious of his wife’s activity and wanting to confront the paramour the husband surreptitiously followed his wife.
Upon reaching the rendezvous location he revealed himself to his wife and her paramour, the husband took the most unusual action. Instead of attacking the paramour, as was expected—the husband begged him to legally take on the obligation of his wife.
The husband, seemingly inspired during his spy-mission, purchased an A4 sheet of paper from a nearby boutique and began to prepare an agreement. He entered his name, address and the national identity card number and began to pen an agreement which used informal legal terminology to map out a means of legally handing over his wife to another. Upon completion of his makeshift legal document, he signed it with a flourish.
In reciprocation, the paramour signed the document and made “amendments” to ensure that it reflected the extent to which he hoped to care for his newly “acquired” wife. The final signatory was the wife in question, who expressed her devotion to her paramour and stated in writing her willingness to be legally joined with her paramour. A three-wheel driver known to them perfected the agreement and signed it as the witness to the agreement of the trio.
Finally the mother of three accompanied her paramour in a three-wheeler deserting the husband and the children. After a short while the husband – father of the three children were seen at the police station with the consent paper in his hand explaining his situation to the police officers, to their amusement. He now claimed that he was no longer responsible to the court for any action of his wife.
On the direction of t he Inspector Hemal Prasanna investigations are being conducted by the OIC of the Children and Women’s Bureau Waruni Bogahawatta Sgt. G.Sumathipala, and PCs P.V.A.Lasntha, J.G.K. Prasanga and WPC Pushpa into the incident.