rucki said he was dumbfounded my kids are my life grazzinirucki told 2020 she too was just trying to protect her children and she believes she will be reunited with them but the judge determined based on evidence from a psychologist he appointed that their mother sandra grazzinirucki was engaging in parental alienation meaning that the reason the children are adamantly opposed to seeing their father was not because he abused them or their mother but because grazzinirucki had brainwashed them which she denies there was no findings that i ever hurt the children that i ever abused them that i ever neglected them that i ever did anything to them the girls vanished 20 minutes later i know what these kids have been put through but it wasnt me who put these through she said a month went by without a single sighting of the girls until suddenly they appeared on a local fox 9 tv report alleging their father had threatened to shoot their siblings and their mother which he denied as her divorce from david rucki dragged on their other three children were still living with their aunt tammy love but grazzinirucki made no attempt to visit them all have pleaded not guilty nathan said he knew the children had already been taken out of grazziniruckis custody and that by driving off with them she was breaking the law but he didnt call the police all im told is its a judges order grazzinirucki said you dont want them hitchhiking in october 2015 police arrested sandra grazzinirucki and charged her with three felony counts of deprivation of parental rights i ran out of the room sandra grazzinirucki was held on a 1 million bond at ramsey county jail in st paul minnesota and released in february cute photo kanye west brings baby north to the studio she kept saying oh the lakeville police theyre going to find us nathan told 2020 and she kept telling the kids get down these are young girls rucki said nathan insisted he couldnt have helped because he didnt know where grazzinirucki had ended up taking them courtesy of david rucki at the time of their disappearance the girls and their three other siblings nico nia and gino were at the center of the bitter divorce and custody dispute between their parents sandra grazzinirucki and david rucki grazzinirucki 50 claimed rucki 53 was physically abusive to both her and their five children what are you talking about wed lock ourselves in the bedroom because were scared i didnt believe it we just didnt know how his behavior was going to be from one day to the next ive never done anything but be there for my children grazzinirucki said i believe this will be turned around at the time i believed it because you listen to your mom law professor joan meier wont comment on this case but says in messy divorces its imperative that highly qualified specialists be appointed to