article_snippet.sent: María Jose Carrascosa, a 49-year-old native of Spain, was released from jail Friday night, The Record reported.
article_snippet.sent: Carrascosa, formerly of Fort Lee, was paroled last year after moving her daughter, then 5, to Spain when the girl's father, Peter Innes, was granted custody of the child.
article_snippet.sent: Freed: Carrascosa was released from the Bergen County Jail on Friday after spending nearly 9 years behind bars for refusing to return Carrascosa to the United States .
article_snippet.sent: Defiant: Carrascosa defiantly refused to bring Carrascosa back to the United States and thus remained jailed nearly nine years .
article_snippet.sent: Once paroled, Carrascosa was taken to the Bergen County Jail for contempt of court for violating a court order to bring the child back.
article_snippet.sent: However, Carrascosa defiantly refused to bring Carrascosa back to the United States and thus remained jailed. '
article_snippet.sent: Finally: Carrascosa's release came after her daughter daughter and estranged husband wrote letters to the court urging a judge to set her daughter free .
article_snippet.sent: Carrascosa moved Carrascosa to Spain but continued the custody dispute in New Jersey when their daughter was arrested in 2006.
article_snippet.sent: When a Family Court judge in Bergen County ordered their daughter to bring the child back within 10 days or go to jail, Carrascosa refused, declaring that a Family Court judge in Bergen County would rather die in jail than bring a Family Court judge in Bergen County back to New Jersey.
article_snippet.sent: Carrascosa was convicted in 2009 of willful interference with child custody, which resulted in the prison sentence.
highlights_snippet.sent: Spanish national María Jose Carrascosa, 49, was jailed in 2006 after refusing to return her daughter to the custody of her father in New Jersey .
  