Jewish Mom Bars Dad From Taking Daughter To Church.
hicago, IL - A local father has been hit with an unusual restraining order: Keep his daughter away from any religion that is not Jewish.
Why? As CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports, after the girl's parents split up the father went to a Catholic church and had the girl baptized.
It's a picture of Joseph Reyes and his 3-year-old daughter on the day she was baptized as a Roman Catholic. It was a happy day for this 35-year old Chicago man. But to his estranged wife, it was a malicious act.
That's because Rebecca Reyes only learned of her daughter's Baptism when Joseph sent her the picture.
Joseph Reyes denies he sent the picture out of malice.
"I sent it because Rebecca asked me for pictures," he said.
Mrs. Reyes wants her daughter raised Jewish, and she says her husband pledged to do so, even going so far as to convert to Judaism himself. "That's not accurate," he responded. "I'm not going to call her a liar, but at the very least she's …More