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Belgium: Muslim father ‘feared to have cut off ankle monitor and taken...
A MUSLIM father is feared to have cut off his prison ankle monitor bracelet and kidnapped his daughter to Syria, according to reports. Belgian local media reported that the three-year-old went missing...
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USA: Child custody fight resumes, despite disappearance
source MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A long-running legal saga pitting two former lesbian partners in a child custody fight returns to Vermont this week, with the state’s highest court set to hear an appeal....
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Mexico: EPPD helped develop multi-national Amber Alert system used in Mexico
source EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Police Department is being credited with helping recently expand the Amber Alert program into Mexico. Amber Alerts allow for cross-border communication between law...
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Netherlands: EXTRA SECURITY CHECKS AT SCHIPHOL TO PREVENT CHILD ABDUCTION
source A parent or grandparent traveling with a minor child through Schiphol Airport this summer, should take extra time for an additional security check into account. The Koninklijke Marechaussee...
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USA: The Most Dangerous Kidnappers: Parents
source Despite what seems to have been a rash of children abducted by strangers this summer, there aren’t any more than normal, and vastly greater numbers of children are kidnapped by their own...
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USA: Federal agents arrest Maryland man wanted for international child...
Federal agents have arrested a Maryland man who was accused of international parental kidnapping, ending a six-year saga that drew the attention of the state’s top elected officials. FBI and U.S....
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Canada / China: Prison term upheld for mom who hid Toronto girl in China
source TORONTO – A woman who refused to bring her daughter back to Canada from China despite repeated court orders to do so lost her bid on Monday to overturn her conviction and seven-year prison...
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USA: The Supreme Court Strikes Down a Nationality Law That Treated Fathers...
source In a step forward for gender equality, the Supreme Court struck down yesterday a nationality law that treated U.S. citizen fathers and mothers differently. The law — first enacted in 1940 — is...
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Australia: Police partner with Facebook for child abduction alerts. Law...
source Australia’s federal, state, and territory police forces have partnered with Facebook to introduce a child abduction alert system to the social network. The AMBER Alert system will allow police...
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UK: Facebook reveals emergency alert system to help find missing children –...
The social network is rolling out an alert system which will raise the alarm if a British child disappears to lend help in the ‘golden hours’ that are key to saving lives source Facebook is preparing...
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Cyprus: Marie Eleni’s father says they are no longer in Cyprus
source Speaking to reporters for the first time since forcibly taking his daughter from her mother in Nicosia over 55 days ago, Leif Torkel Grimsrud, says he and little Marie Eleni are no longer in...
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USA: Cell signal helps police find father accused of parental abduction in Smyth
Father posts about courts, mothers in custody issues on Facebook source Joel D. Long’s cell phone led to his capture Thursday morning at a rest area in the Rockingham County/Harrisonburg area. Law...
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UK / Europe: Brexit and divorce – what next for families?
source The triggering of Article 50 of the Treaty of European Union on 29 March 2017 began the process of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, and this week the negotiations commence. Because we have a...
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USA: Child Abduction Case in Venice Raises Important Legal Issues
source On the morning of Wednesday, April 26, 2017, Nishia Burnett-Hayer abducted her 6-year-old son from his elementary school in Venice, California. Burnett- Hayer, who does not have legal custody...
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USA: Father Accused of Kidnapping, Assault Due in Court
source The man accused of kidnapping his 3-year-old son and assaulting the child’s mother is scheduled to be arraigned today. Rosba Taylor was taken into police custody just before noon on Wednesday...
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Healing from parental abduction a ‘lifelong recovery process’ Adult survivor...
source A woman who was abducted by her mother when she was a child says the trauma still haunts her today. “You become a bit of a mini, child existentialist, walking around understanding that reality...
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South Africa: How to prevent child abduction
Human trafficking is rising at an alarming rate, but it is just one of the reasons that children are kidnapped. Children are also often taken by members of their own family. source A child goes missing...
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Australia: Foreign courts ‘too soft’ on parents who abduct children from...
source PARENTS who abduct their children are more likely to win a reprieve if their case is decided in a foreign country, a loophole being blamed on weak international laws that have been “watered...
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USA: They were taken from their mom to re-bond with their dad. It didn’t go...
source Laura Jeu knew something was wrong when her mother, Sharon, returned from a custody hearing in late November 2011. Sharon Jeu simply told her four children to get ready to go see their father....
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Australia: Zoltowski v Australia (HRC, 2015)
source Arkadiusz Zoltowski is a Polish national who lived in Australia on and off for many years, acquiring dual citizenship in 1983. In 2000, he married in Poland and, in 2004, they had a son, born...
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