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June 1, 2012 Source: ktvq.com The stepmother of three Belgrade children who were taken by their father to the Bahamas on a sailboat against custody orders pleaded guilty in Gallatin County District Court today. Angela Bryant pleaded guilty to one count of parenting interference by accountability. As part of the plea agreement, Judge Mike Salvagni [...]

Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice help shed light on the problem. Missing children •An estimated 797,500 children were reported missing each year. •More than than 2,000 children are reported missing every day, but thankfully the vast majority of them are recovered quickly. Non-family abductions •An estimated 58,200 children were taken in one year [...]

Source: Thailand Family Law Center In the context of Thailand family law, child abduction cases typically occur during a child custody dispute, when one parent flees a legal jurisdiction with any children who are the subjects of the dispute. International law and Thailand family law may come into play when a child is abducted from a foreign [...]

Source: CNN A 51-year-old man has pleaded guilty to international parental kidnapping weeks after his brother did the same, for the same charge, for illicitly taking their juvenile sons on a worldwide trek, a federal prosecutor’s office announced Friday. John Silah, a citizen of Syria, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a federal court in California [...]

Source: fingal-independent.ie THE abduction of little Swords girl, May Monaghan last year was one of a staggering 261 cases of parental abduction of children into and out of Ireland or involving Irish children abroad in 2011. According to new figures from the Department of Justice, May’s abduction by her estranged father who took her from Cyprus [...]

Source: Huffington Post / Natasha Kuilak Mellersh Many of us take on work or studies in a foreign country, and some of us end up having a family with someone of a different nationality. All great for international understanding? Well usually. But if the relationship breaks down, this type of globally mobile lifestyle brings new [...]

Time is a very important factor if a child is Abducted Tragically International Child Abduction has reached global epidemic proportions.  According to leading experts the increase in inter-racial marriages and relationships  will, in the future, lead to a significant rise in the number of children born to parents of different nationalities As is true for [...]

Source: amarillo.com The child custody case of an Amarillo woman and her Algerian ex-husband has led federal authorities on an international hunt to track down the couple’s child, according to federal court records. Federal authorities arrested Badr Djelti, 35, on May 5 on one count of parental kidnapping. According to federal immigration officials, Djelti was [...]

Source: KJ Mullins from Newz4u.net . On May 12 Polish Prime Minister, Mr. Donald Tusk will arrive in Canada for the first time. Families with missing children located in Poland are hoping that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will work on their behalf with Tusk while he’s in Ottawa. Tusk will be in Canada to discuss with [...]

U.S. Special Advisor to the Secretary for International Children’s Susan Jacobs holds a conversation with President and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Ernie Allen on International Parental Child Abductions from the Department of State in Washington, D.C. on May 2, 2012. The conversation was moderated by Deputy Assistant Secretary Cheryl [...]