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Mum’s letter to missing six-year-old son

I am dying to see you but I don't know where you are.

Leyla dad with Mani before he was kidnapped by his father.

A mother has written an emotional open letter to her missing so,n who vanished in January telling the child: “I am dying to see you but I don’t know where you are.”

Leyla Dad, of Kielce, Poland last saw her six-year-old son Mani in January when she agreed to let her estranged husband, Mani’s father Zayn Dean take him on a short trip to Warsaw, the Guardian reports.

Lawyers representing Dad reportedly believe the boy could “wrongfully removed” from Poland taken to the UK with his 47-year-old father, who is also known as Dholtana Dad, and is a British citizen.

Leyla Dad, of Kielce, Poland writes a letter to her missing son Mani.

While lawyers for the 33-year-old mother say she kept her son’s passports with her soon after Mani was with his father she received an email from Zayn telling her that he and Mani were on their way to the UK via Germany, report the Guardian.

The boy’s father Zayn Dean is thought to be in the UK.

Since Mani’s disappearance his 33-year-old mother has launched proceedings with the family division of the high court in a bid to trace her son and a judge has allowed her special permissions to reveal details of the case to appeal for public support.

“This is a desperately sad case involving the removal of a very young child from his home in Poland and separated from his mother who has been his primary carer from birth,” Dad’s lawyers said in statement.

A distraught Ms Dad, who has allegedly been the primary caregiver to the boy since birth, has penned a heartbreaking letter to her six-year-old in the hopes that the letter might be shared and help find him.

Apart from telling him she loves him Ms Dad wrote: “Please, please can anyone out there who reads this please help me find my baby boy.”

Dad has engaged in legal proceedings under the terms of the 1980 Hague convention on civil aspects of international child abduction, her lawyers confirmed.

Here is the whole heartbreaking letter below:

Dear Mani

Please, please do not worry baby I promise I will see you very soon.

I miss you so much I am dying to see you but I don’t know where you are. You are my baby and I don’t know where you are.

I know that we will see each other again soon, and when you are older I can explain this all to you, and you will know that I would never ever, ever want to be separated from you. This is killing me.

You are always with me, you’ve always been with me, you are always in my heart and you always will be.

When I see you I will squeeze you so tight and never let you go.

When we are back together everything can go back to normal and I promise you that you will be safe and nothing will ever change that.

You probably don’t know what’s happening and I wish you were here so I could make you feel better.

Please, please do not worry. I know it has been a long time since I saw you but I love you so much and you are in my heart and in my thoughts every second of every day.

I promise we will be together again soon my baby.

I love you from the moon and back and all the universe too.

I hope and pray every day that anyone out there who sees this letter and sees your photo and sees your father’s photo that they report it as soon as possible so that we can be together again and be together forever.

Please, please can anyone out there who reads this please help me find my baby boy.

Mani I love you so much and I miss you every second of every day. I promise you will never be away from me ever again. I am, and will be, with you always.

Your Mama.

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