A B.C. Supreme Court judge has split guardianship of a five-year-old girl between her mother in Richmond, B.C., and her father — a Chinese airline pilot who flew the child to Chengdu in 2019 and has detained her there ever since.

The decision is part of a bitter custody battle playing out in courts on two continents, one that includes the mother’s accusations that the father tried to force her to have his name tattooed on intimate parts of her body and threatened to use his access to free flights to track her down if she didn’t agree to his terms.

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