![]() ![]() After being detained for 25 months, Morgan was released from jail shortly after the act was passed into law in September 1989, and subsequently moved to New Zealand to join her parents and her daughter. While the bill did not mention Morgan or Foretich by name, its authors admitted that it was specifically intended to free Morgan from jail. That legislation removed the provision of District of Columbia law that permitted indefinite detention for civil contempt. ![]() In 1989, Representative Frank Wolf of Virginia introduced the bill that became the District of Columbia Civil Contempt Imprisonment Limitation Act ( H.R. 2136, Pub. ![]() While in jail, Morgan refused to reveal the whereabouts of her daughter, who was living with Morgan's parents in New Zealand. When Morgan refused to do so, she was held in contempt of court and was indefinitely detained in August 1987. After a police investigation was unable to substantiate Morgan's claims, a judge ordered her to allow the child to visit her father without supervision. Morgan, who had primary custody of the child, then attempted to have Foretich's visitation rights revoked. ![]() Eric Foretich, of sexually abusing their daughter Hilary, then two years old. Elizabeth Morgan accused her ex-husband, dentist Dr. In 1985 Washington, DC plastic surgeon Dr. It was passed as a rider of the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 ( H.R. 3675, Pub. It was originally introduced as H.R. 1855, by Rep. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia as being a bill of attainder, because it was written to deny rights to a specific father based on his child's own assertion. The Elizabeth Morgan Act is an act of the 104th United States Congress that was declared unconstitutional in 2003 by the U.S. ![]()
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