article_snippet.sent: A southern New Jersey woman jailed in an international custody dispute has been freed after spending more than eight years behind bars and is likely to be reunited with A southern New Jersey woman jailed in an international custody dispute daughter who's been without either parent for nearly a decade.
article_snippet.sent: Superior Court Judge Bonnie Mizdol, ultimately deciding that incarceration would not coerce Carrascosa to comply with child custody orders, ordered her daughter release from jail Friday.
article_snippet.sent: Jail time for contempt of court is meant to coerce a person into cooperating with a judges orders, not as a punishment.
article_snippet.sent: The question before Superior Court is whether incarceration has lost Superior Court coercive power and has become punitive,' Superior Court Judge Bonnie Mizdol said. '
article_snippet.sent: Superior Court Judge Bonnie Mizdol has become clear that continued incarceration would not compel her daughter to return her daughter, so Superior Court Judge Bonnie Mizdol would be deemed punitive.'
article_snippet.sent: During the hearing, Superior Court Judge Bonnie Mizdol read a letter from Innes, of Hasbrouck Heights, that said Superior Court Judge Bonnie Mizdol would not oppose Carrascosa's release if her daughter returns to Spain to be with their daughter, Victoria.
article_snippet.sent: Superior Court Judge Bonnie Mizdol also read a letter from Victoria, who is now 14, that said: 'My only wish is to be with my mother.'
article_snippet.sent: You should know that I did all I could, including petitioning Superior Court Judge Bonnie Mizdol, to help get your mom released.