Child Abduction
Child AbductionChild abduction. It isn't fun for anyone involved. The person that takes the child may at first think it is a great idea but after a while they will realize how much work it actually is. It is near impossible to conceal a kidnapped child in the world today. There was a recent case where a child was taken by his father, his parents recently being divorced, from his home in the United States, to his hometown in a foreign country. With the rules in place there, the mother was unable to get her child back, having gone through courts and biding by the law. It was only recently the U.S. courts demanded that the child be returned. The parent, or parents, that the child is taken from may feel that their lives are over. They go through many emotions ranging from sad to angry. First they have to deal with the fact that their child is now gone and then they have to go through the stressful process of trying to find them and get them back. Ask any parent of an abducted child and they will say that the wait is the hardest. Not knowing whether or not their child is alive, waiting for that phone call that will decide the rest of their lives for them. That is a phone call many of the parents get. Most abducted children do not return home, having begun a new life, if it was a parent or relative abductor, or being abused and killed by an unfamiliar abductor. Here are a few facts about child abduction:
-1 child goes missing every 40 seconds -354,000 abductions occur within the family each year -over � of the abductors are men -49% of abductors have criminal records -4,600 stranger abductions occur each year -sexual assault is most common...
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