Seems to me there is a lot of presumption on this site, with just a few facts reported it seems this families life is an open book and everyone knows exactly what happened, from reading the comments it would seem the father is knight in shining armour saving his children from their alcoholic abusive crack ho mother, and after 15 years the wicked witch has finally plotted her revenge, incarcerated the saint and no offering her children in sacrifice.
But the reality is, there is no such information here, all we know for sure is, some 15 years ago a man drove of with his two toddler children saying to their mother you will never see them again, without any knowledge of the reasons behind it, so people please lighten up, I am all for discussion but all this hatred throw to either side when we have no real facts is pointless.
The man was arrested and thrown in jail, to me that would indicated he has broken the law, he wouldn't have been incarcerated and had his children taken unless the charge was serious, if it was just a custody issue he would of been granted bail and the child welfare protection people would of negotiated between parents, that is my assumption anyway.
Secondly everyone is screaming how the woman was cruel for having the husband thrown in jail, that may not of even been her intention, she may well have just wanted to see her kids, she couldn't approach the father (remember he already hid these kids from her for 15 years) she was probably afraid if she did speak to him he would bolt again, so she did the right thing and called in the authorities, events probably over escalated from there.
As for the kids hating their mother, how do you know what has been told to these kids? they were bound to ask about her, it could well be they were told all sorts of rubbish about her, it wouldn't be the first time estranged parents have waged a hate campaign against the other via their children would it.
So please guys, there will be two sides to this story, try not to presume to much. All I see here is tragedy for the kids and 15 years of misery for the mother. I am a father and no way can I justify in my mind what this man has done, braking up the kids life is not the answer, but he stole 15 years of this woman's life, stole her kids, he also stole the mother from his own children, took away their chance to know her and make their own mind up about her.