News provided by The Unmarried Father
May 13, 2025, 08:00 ET
Jeremiah Webb, a Sarasota father and elite performance coach at Shop On Fire, renowned for lightning-speed business transformation in the trades, has sued the Diocese of Venice for withholding his minor daughter, under 13, for 83 days in a family abduction that constitutes aggravated kidnapping under Florida Statute 787.01.
SARASOTA, Fla., May 13, 2025 /Newswire/ —
With 25k organic followers on Facebook, Webb’s viral reel (facebook.com/reel/849654162930868) – 6.6 million views, 190k likes – ignites a reform movement to protect parents nationwide. The Diocese, led by Bishop Frank J. Dewane, and Incarnation Catholic School (ICS), with Ligia Hall, severed the child’s three-year therapist, denied emergency medical access, and blocked school records, violating Florida’s Parents’ Bill of Rights and Parental Rights in Education Act. Webb’s relentless emails, certified letters, and calls may have nudged the launch of the nation’s first Office of Parental Rights on April 29, 2025, a bold stand by Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier for kids statewide, now tested by this case.
Jeremiah Webb and his minor daughter, a bond torn apart for 83 days by family abduction, defying Florida’s Parents’ Bill of Rights.
“It’s like a 7-Eleven gassing up scenario,” Webb said. “You send your kids inside for snacks, and the operator trespasses you with police enforcing it. You say your kids are inside, but police call it a ‘civil issue.’ The Diocese is that 7-Eleven, and Hall’s another down the street. They sneak your kids out the back to her while you beg police to act. This happens every other week. Should kidnapping be OK as long as you trespass them first? This isn’t a communist country – how is this happening in America?”
Webb, a fantastic and really fun father whose infectious energy transforms trades businesses at Shop On Fire, has not seen his daughter since February 18, 2025, when the Diocese and ICS trespassed him from school grounds (including the car pickup line), and Hall from her residence – simultaneously locking him out of her life – with no apparent legal remedy. This coordinated act violated 787.03 (custodial interference), 827.03(2)(e) (child abuse), 1014.04 (parental rights), 1014.06 (health care consent), and 1002.20 (parental access). The Diocese severed her three-year therapist and denied emergency medical access, causing harm that escalates to a life felony under **787.01** due to the child’s age. Hall’s pre-dated DCF report suggests collusion.
“At least a challenge like this makes sure I don’t get bored, sleep in, or second-guess my life’s purpose,” Webb quipped, his intensity blazing. “I’m all in – transforming Florida’s legal system with lightning speed and energy, then taking this fight national to help parents everywhere. This is my arena, and I’m pumped to participate!”
Webb’s passion, honed transforming trades businesses at Shop On Fire, now simultaneously drives his mission for state and national reform (Webb does a lot ot things at once), sparked by a broken legal system in need of serious reform. The OPR’s launch – a beautiful first-in-the-nation move – may owe a nod to Webb’s never-ending advocacy. The Diocese’s diocese negligence spans 22 lawsuits and $22 million in settlements – $500,000 in 1999, $1.5M by 2002, $5M and six-figure in 2014, two $15M in 2019, 2020 (Riley), 2024 (Kaywell), and a 2003 priest’s 30-year sentence. Despite 71+ visits by Sarasota Police and Sheriff’s Office, no enforcement has occurred, defying justice. Twenty-nine leaders, including Senators Joe Gruters, Ana Maria Rodriguez, and Shevrin Jones, alongside 80 proclamations from counties and cities like Manatee, Bradenton, and Longboat Key, affirm Family Abduction Awareness Day (May 25, 2025) as a clarion call to end child abductions, shield families from emotional devastation, and demand swift law enforcement action. These proclamations, many sealed under FRE 902 and FS 90.902, underscore the crisis, as noted in the Bradenton Proclamation. HB 1385,a civil remedey for child abduction, passed 20-0 in committee and 108-0 in the House, showed unanimous constituent support for abduction remedies, though withdrawn in the Senate.
For more information about Webb, visit www.facebook.com/jeremiahwebb.1 or www.shoponfire.com.
About The Unmarried Father
The Unmarried Father is a platform amplifying Jeremiah Webb’s fight for fathers’ rights and against family abduction. With over 350,000 followers, it champions equal time for all parents with their children – that’s the heart of the mission. Webb, owner of Shop On Fire since 2013, specializes in lightning-speed high energy business transformation in the trades with elite athletic skill. Having coached business leaders, athletes, and entertainers for over 18 years, his contagious passion drives reform for parents across Florida and the nation. A viral reel with 6.6 million views and 190k likes (facebook.com/reel/849654162930868) fuels the movement. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/jeremiahwebb.1.
MEDIA CONTACT:
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Shop On Fire
801-755-9600
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SOURCE The Unmarried Father