"Because of the harmful effects on children, parental kidnapping has been characterized as a form of child abuse" reports Patricia Hoff, Legal Director for the Parental Abduction Training and Dissemination Project, American Bar Association on Children and the Law.
www.prevent-abuse-now.com/unreport.htm
If a party (such as your ex-spouse) refuses to return your child, you may seek relief under the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA). Contact the local law enforcement authorities and request they assist in the return of the child. ... Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act; 28 USC Sec. 1738A...
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The International Parental Kidnapping Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-173) was passed by Congress and signed into law in December 1993. The Act makes international child abduction a federal felony crime and imposes criminal fines and/or a prison term on anyone who removes a child from the United States or unlawfully retains...
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PKPrevRem.PDF (PDF File)
The Legal Response to Parental Kidnapping All fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Congress have enacted civil and criminal laws to address parental kidnapping and interstate and international child custody and visitation disputes.
www.abanet.org/child/pkprevrem.pdf
First, without a standing court ordered and recorded custody decision, there is no such thing as parental kidnapping. Parents are seen as having equal ... First, without a standing court ordered and recorded custody decision, there is no such thing as parental kidnapping. Parents are seen as having equal "rights" to the...
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Child abduction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Child abduction is the abduction or kidnapping of a child (or baby) by an older person. Several distinct forms of child abduction exist: • A parent removes or retains a child from the other parent's ...
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Parental kidnapping harms families across the nation. A recent national study found that parental kidnapping occurs at an estimated rate of 203,900 cases per year.[2] What is not recognized generally, however, is that domestic violence underlies many of the most tragic parental abduction cases.
www.vaw.umn.edu/documents/pkreport/pkreport.html
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About the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Crimes Against Children ... In 1932, Congress gave the FBI jurisdiction under the “Lindbergh Law” to immediately investigate any reported mysterious disappearance or kidnapping involving a child of “tender age”—usually 12 or younger.
www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/cac/kidnap.htm www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/cac/kidnap.htm
CEOS provides advice and litigation support to Assistant United States Attorneys throughout the country who are involved in or are considering international parental kidnapping prosecutions.
www.usdoj.gov/criminal/ceos/ipk.html