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Kelly Rutherford reacts to losing custody battle.
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One day after a New York judge ruled that Kelly Rutherford had to send her children back to live with their father in Monaco, the actress is speaking out on what she called a "shocking" turn of events.
Rutherford said she thinks sending her two children -- son Hermes, 8, and daughter Helena, 6 -- to live with her ex-husband Daniel Giersch abroad is a violation of her children's rights as American citizens. The two children arrived in France earlier today.
"Judge Ellen Gesmer effectively arrested my children, claiming she had authority under habeas corpus to take them into custody because of a foreign country's court order," she wrote in a statement to ABC News. "Knowing she had no authority, Judge Gesmer seized my children and their U.S. passports, and forced them to leave the United States and reside in Monaco, a country where neither they nor I, nor even their father, has citizenship."
The former "Gossip Girl" star, who just spent the summer with her two children in the U.S., added that she tried to comfort her kids, as they were handed off to Giersch's mother on Tuesday to immediately fly back to Monaco and reunite with their father. Rutherford also said in her statement that she and her legal team have asked the U.S. State Department for help in this matter, to no avail.
Rutherford was supposed to send the children back on Friday, but released a statement over the weekend that she had decided against it.
Giersch's legal team fired back over the weekend and sent the actress a letter, demanding that Rutherford send the children back to Monaco immediately, followed by a filing in New York County Supreme Court.
Rutherford claimed today that Giersch lied in his court filing, saying he did not know where the kids were.
"I told him in writing repeatedly that the children were in New York, safe with me. He Skyped with the children and talked to them many times during the periods when he claimed he did not know the their whereabouts, or whether they were safe. It was all lies to persuade the court to issue an emergency order," she added.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...ry?id=33038152
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This is so upsetting. Kelly is a great mother and I can't blame her for being so defensive about her children. 
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