USA / Canada: Urbana woman gets 26 months for parental kidnapping
source URBANA — An Urbana woman has been sentenced to 26 months in prison for international parental kidnapping. Sarah M. Nixon, 48, was convicted in December when a federal jury found her guilty of...
View ArticleUSA: What’s being done to keep kids safe at school pick-up points?
source ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The biggest child custody problem is parental interference. It became a real issue for Henderson County schools in March when a non-custodial parent allegedly kidnapped...
View ArticleUSA/ Canada: Mother Sentenced to Prison for Taking Child from Illinois to...
source Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- A Canadian woman was sentenced to serve 26 months in prison following her December conviction for international parental kidnapping, announced Acting Assistant...
View ArticleAustralia: family lawyers have praised a new support initiative in NSW...
source Commonwealth Attorney-General George Brandis QC launched the Family Advocacy and Support Service (FASS) in Western Sydney on Wednesday. The service appoints duty lawyers who have an...
View ArticleMother of Abducted Toddler Helps Other Parents Survive
source For Immediate Release May 22, 2017 – Over 2 million parents in the United States have experienced a missing child. Each day a parent dies due to the stress and heartbreak of losing their child...
View ArticleUSA: Missing: 12-year-old Penelope Inks
source HOUSTON – Police are asking for the public’s help in finding 12-year-old Penelope Inks. She has been missing since Feb. 18, 2014 and is from Houston. She was allegedly abducted by her mother,...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Gigaba’s UBC rules a bunch of bollocks – and that a fact!
source Tourism Update, in a special report, reveal that South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs cannot back up any of the stats they have given to increase visa and travel rules to the country....
View ArticleBelgium: Child kidnap victim now headed for Belgium
source: Damien, an eight-year-old child, taken by his father to Turkey, was this morning on an aeroplane headed for Munich (in Germany). He was accompanied by his Belgian mother. The Minister for...
View ArticleUSA: Two fathers’ painful search to bring their missing children home
source PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD., (WUSA) – Michael Muse has not been able to shake the agonizing feeling of abandonment for nearly five years. “I find myself, what I call, waking up from my dreams...
View ArticleAustralia: Harry Speath recalls when he last saw his children who were...
source HARRY Speath fought back tears today as he recounted the last time he saw his son Tom and daughter Serena. His children are among a rising number of Australian kids being abducted by one of...
View ArticleAustralia: International Missing Children’s Day: The agony of a child...
source It must be incredibly confronting for a parent to look at manufactured images of how their missing child may look years after they last saw them. Sydney father Michael Macintosh has not see his...
View ArticleMalta: All 111 children who went missing in 2016 were found Six of these were...
source In Malta, in 2016, as many as 111 children went missing but in all instances they were found and returned home, according to the Missing Children Europe report issued to mark International...
View ArticleUSA: Six felony charges filed in parental abduction case
source A Terre Haute man faces six felony charges in connection with the alleged abduction of his toddler daughter on Sunday. James Denny, 22, appeared Thursday in Vigo Superior Court 6, where Judge...
View ArticleAustralia: Have You Seen These Missing Children? Here’s What They Could Look...
source Every year around 38,000 Australians are reported missing and while most of them are located within a short period of time, approximately 1,600 people — many being young people under the age of...
View ArticleUSA: Mom Charged For Not Saying Kidnapper Was Her Husband
source A Lexington, Tennessee woman has been charged for telling police that she was kidnapped with her four children by a stranger, when it was later revealed that the kidnapper was her husband....
View ArticleUSA: Bill would make shared custody mandatory priority for family court judges
source When parents get divorced or split up, the biggest question is usually: Who gets the kids? Most child custody cases are settled outside the courtroom. But when parents can’t agree, it’s up to a...
View ArticleRomania: Application of The Hague Convention on Children in Romania
source There have been many articles written concerning the implementation of The Hague Convention on child abduction. All countries have come into some criticism and Romania has not been immune. The...
View ArticleNorway/Cyprus: Norwegian court rejects appeal for custody of abducted girl...
source The Norwegian Supreme Court has rejected another appeal for custody filed by Torkel Grimsrud, the Norwegian man believed to be behind the abduction of his four-year-old daughter in Nicosia last...
View ArticlePetition: Amend The Hague: October 2017
source In October judges and government representatives from around the world will meet to discuss the workings of ‘The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction’. This is...
View ArticleAustralia: Left Behind Father Paul Brown of Australia begins recording...
source Left Behind Parent, Paul Brown of Australia has begun his new podcast, LBP Stories. Listen through their website – www.lbpstories.com or hear the first podcast at –...
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