Losing your child to Parental Child Abduction

Most people believe strangers are responsible for the majority of childhood abductions, but national statistics say parental kidnapping is more often to blame. A family abduction occurs when a family member, likely a separated or divorced parent, takes and hides a child for some length of time. This heartbreaking and devastating crime occurs every single…

United States Annual Report on IPCA

This is why CARI – Child Abduction Recovery International exists…….   From CARI’s experience and knowledge this report is missing many other countries who also fail to comply, enforce and demonstrate patterns of noncompliance year after year after year. For this reason we believe this report is far from accurate. What it does show is how…

Say hello to Crisanto

Say hello to Crisanto… Illegally abducted in 2015 by the uncle and taken out of Australia.   Yesterday Crisanto was legally recovered by his custodial parent along with CARI and police from the Phillipines. CARI has worked very closely with authorities including police to trace Crisanto, who has been in hiding since 2015. This poor…

Holiday Season Ahead – Beware

Beware the holiday season is approaching…..All holidays are the high season for ‘International Parental Child Abduction’….. Each holiday season CARI is contacted by many frantic parents who have had their child/children abducted/kidnapped. CARI knowns particularly in the lead up to the school holidays; that before or during school holidays is one of the most common…

CARI speaking out..

Part of CARI’s quieter role, which most do not see is the awareness we are trying to raise about International Parental Child Abduction. Lets face it, there is little awareness and what is out there is mostly crap and not reality. Left behind parents are often pushed into a washing machine, along with other left…

Say hello to Mayra

Say hello to 9 year old Mayra (in the middle)…..reunited today with her very happy loving mother and little sister. Mayra, was illegally abducted 9 months ago out of Peru to Argentina where she was left to fend for herself on a daily basis from day one. We say it all the time, but she…