The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ordered the return to Panama of young twin boys abducted by their mother from their father’s homeland, reversing a Tampa judge who ruled the children were so “settled” in the United States that they should be allowed to stay.

The panel noted the twins were twice abducted by their mother, a U.S. citizen, in violation of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.