A Kuwaiti appeals court has revoked a mother’s right to the custody of her son after she was found to have smoked hashish about 10 years ago.
The son’s father told the court that his ex-wife had started using hashish in 2015 and admitted to having filmed her drug tools during their married life.
Initially, to avoid exposing her practice, he kept the videos under wraps over the past few years, the Kuwaiti newspaper Alseyassah reported.
But after the ex-wife had filed a lawsuit demanding that she be granted custody of their only son, the father submitted the footage to prove her unreliability.
“Even though this incident involving drug use is old, it demonstrates that the mother’s behaviour is abnormal and that she is not trustworthy to take the custody of the son,” a lawyer for the father said.
In recent months, Kuwaiti courts have denied several mothers the custody of their children in different cases.
Last year, a Kuwaiti court dropped a woman’s right to her four children’s custody after she was found to have sought help from a sorcerer to cause harm to their divorced father.
The lawyer for the ex-husband told the family court that the woman had been involved in evil acts targeting the claimant.
The pernicious tricks came to the surface after a row had erupted between the woman and the sorcerer over the fees and the latter informed the father.
In a separate case, another woman lost custody of her children due to her frequent travelling. The court awarded the custody to her ex-husband.
