A non-custodial father has recently pled guilty in Federal Court, to kidnapping his five-year-old son and taking him to Mexico. Missing since August of 2005, when the father failed to drop his son off at a daycare provider, FBI and Mexican authorities found both the father and the son in Cancun, Mexico in December of that same year. The boy was then reunited with his mother in Pittsburgh.

While the father is charged with international parental kidnapping, and will be sentenced in November, he... more

Parental kidnapping is a huge crime, at least it is in America with more than 350,000 children being abducted by a family member each year, which averages out to almost a thousand children being kidnapped by a parent (or very close family member in some cases) each and every day, yikes! But what does this have to do with Japan? After all, if someone were to run to Japan with his or her child illegally, we have a criminal extradition treaty with Japan right? Well, yes and no.

Yes we do have a criminal extradition treaty with Japan, however... more

A while back I wrote a blog about Parental Kidnapping, which ended up sparking quite a few comments. Some readers questioned if parental kidnapping really does happen all that often. While it is hard to believe that a parent would take off with their child, intending for the other parent to never find either of them, it does happen and it happens more than we would like to think.

Today as I was strolling around the... more

When custody disputes become extremely ugly, it is not uncommon for the non-custodial parent to take the child on the pretense of a visitation and disappear off into the sunset taking the child on the run, and often across state lines. While the parent may feel that he or she has been backed into a corner and has no other option but to take off with their child, going on the run with a child causes severe emotional trauma for that... more

Ethan Foley, just three years old was kidnapped from his babysitters home four weeks ago, by both his biological mother, and an aunt. The mother does not have legal custody of her child, and his only legal guardian, his grandmother, is beside herself with grief and frustration in her search to bring her grandson back home.

The... more

Below is a list of Frequently Asked Questions about International Kidnapping. I found this list on the United States Deparentment of Justice, Child Exploitation and Obsenity Section, or CEOS as it is called in short. I thought that this would be excellent information to share with anyone who has a child. Time is of the essence when dealing with a missiing child, so the more we are prepared and know as parents, the better we will be able to handle any parenting situation that might happen to come across our paths in life. No one can ever imagine themselves in this position.... more

In December of 2005, Asia Jackson of Philadelphia, called authorities to report her, then fifteen-month-old daughter, missing. Little Ansia Jackson, who's picture was featured on several different morning shows last month, as well as Without a Trace, was not taken by a stranger, but abducted by someone very close to her, her own father.

Philip Jerome Jackson, who is twenty-six years old, was found in a home located in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, along with his daughter Anisa. Pennsylvania authorities have charge Philip Jackson with kidnapping... more