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Child abduction or child theft is the unauthorized removal of a minor (a child under the age of legal adulthood) from the custody of the child's natural parents or legally appointed guardians.
The term child abduction includes two legal and social categories which differ by their perpetrating contexts: abduction by members of the child's family or abduction by strangers:
Parental child abduction is the unauthorized custody of a child by a family relative (usually one or both parents) without parental agreement and contrary to family law ruling, which may have removed the child from the care, access and contact of the other parent and family side. Occurring around parental separation or divorce, such parental or familial child abduction may include parental alienation, a form of child abuse seeking to disconnect a child from targeted parent and denigrated side of family. This is, by far, the most common form of child abduction.
Abduction or kidnapping by strangers (by people unknown to the child and outside the child's family) is rare. Some of the reasons why a stranger might kidnap an unknown child include:
extortion to elicit a ransom from the parents for the child's return
illegal adoption, a stranger steals a child with the intent to rear the child as their own or to sell to a prospective adoptive parent
human trafficking, stealing a child with the intent to exploit the child themselves or through trade to someone who will abuse the child through slavery, forced labor, or sexual abuse.
term childabduction includes two legal and social categories which differ by their perpetrating contexts: abduction by members of the child's family...
International ChildAbduction or Hague Abduction Convention is a multilateral treaty that provides an expeditious method to return a child who was wrongfully...
The term international childabduction is generally synonymous with international parental kidnapping, child snatching, and child stealing. In private international...
Parental childabduction is the hiding, taking, or keeping hold of a child by a parent while defying the rights of the child's other parent or guardian...
"ChildAbduction Is Not Funny" is the 90th episode of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on July 24, 2002. This episode mocks kidnapping...
(alternatively styled AMBER alert) or a childabduction emergency alert (SAME code: CAE) is a message distributed by a childabduction alert system to ask the public...
Social Problem: The Case of Child Abductions 2002-2003 Abduction epidemic’ hyped up by media Who Would Abduct a Child? Previous Cases Offer Clues US living...
International childabduction in Japan refers to the illegal international abduction or removal of children from their country of habitual residence by...
Alien abduction (also called abduction phenomenon, alien abduction syndrome, or UFO abduction) refers to the phenomenon of people reporting what they...
A childabduction alert system (also Child Alert, Amber alert or Child Rescue Alert) is a tool used to alert the public in cases of worrying or life-threatening...
international childabduction while also being widely regarded as having one of the least effective systems of protecting and returning internationally abducted children...
often than either Berg or Zerby. There have been multiple allegations of child sexual abuse made by past members. Berg preached a combination of traditional...
International childabduction in South Korea refers to the illegal removal of children from their country of habitual residence by an acquaintance or...
Fetal abduction refers to the rare crime of childabduction by kidnapping of an at term pregnant woman and extraction of her fetus through a crude cesarean...
In the Goldman childabduction case David Goldman fought for his son Sean Goldman to be returned to the United States after his abduction by his mother...
pages with titles beginning with Kidnapping of Childabduction Extraordinary rendition Fetal abduction Forced disappearance Gooning Hostage Human trafficking...
producer. Childabduction List of kidnappings List of solved missing person cases Kidnapping of Carlina White, the case of a childabducted and recovered...
Death Note "Abductions", a 2002 episode of Totally Spies! "The Abduction" (Alias), a 2002 episode of an American television series "The Abduction" (Dr. Quinn...
Rachael's abduction. Runyan's abduction and murder remain unsolved. Rachael Marie Runyan was born on June 23, 1979, in Weber County, Utah, the second child and...
and killings following the spread of rumours, primarily relating to child-abduction and organ harvesting, via the WhatsApp message service. The spate of...
of growing concerns over International childabduction in Brazil. In the case of Sean Goldman, a childabducted from the US to Brazil in 2004 and held...
Canada to notify the public of a childabduction has been theorized as being susceptible to alarm fatigue. A 2018 abduction in Thunder Bay resulted in an...
International ChildAbduction through the International ChildAbduction and Contact Unit (ICACU). In this capacity she deals with international childabduction and...
2002, while covering a childabduction story, her video made national news again, when she captured the suspect's arrest. The child, Jessica Cortez, had...
" Grace did not pursue further questioning about the abduction. Smart discussed childabductions on the January 22, 2024, season premiere of the rebooted...
itself based on. "Cleveland Abduction". Lifetime. "TV Review: 'Cleveland Abduction'". April 30, 2015. "Does 'Cleveland Abduction' Get the True Story Right...
Reunite International ChildAbduction Centre is recognized as the leading UK charity focusing on international childabduction. Reunite began in 1986 as...
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