16.07 US Dad Fights to Bring Daughters Home from Russia

WASHINGTON, July 16 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) � The last time Royce Sigler saw his oldest daughter, she was crying. The next time, if all goes well in Russia, he expects he will be the one in tears.

Back home in Ohio after a recent trip to Russia, he has new reason to hope that long-awaited day may come soon, despite an international custody dispute that reads like a parent�s worst nightmare.

On May 29, 2008, his ex-wife Katya, a native of Russia, picked up their two US born daughters, six-year-old Tanya and four-year-old Ksenya from their home in Texas for a three-day visit. But instead of bringing them back home, she fled with the girls to her mother�s home in Sochi.

�I had to put Tanya in the car. She was crying and screaming and didn�t want to go, and I hugged her and kissed her and said,