CARI – Child Abduction Recovery International likes nothing better than returning children illegally abducted around the world, but we also like to bring up issues without the sugar coating, and tell the truth about topics those others including governments simply ignore and or avoid. Like it or hate it, the hard cold facts are in…
Category: international parental child abduction by retention
Tragedy of children abducted from dads and taken to Japan
Parents from the US and around the world are fire walled from children held by estranged spouses – and Japanese parents face similar agonies…. Japanese leaders and diplomats regularly lambast North Korea for the abduction of their citizens by state spies – one of countless human rights abuses committed by Pyongyang. What is less known…
Interpol and International Parental Child Abduction
We are for ever contacted by desperate parents who have had their children kidnapped and taken overseas. In all conversations we have with parents includes their ideas on Interpol Arrest Warrants. Why can’t Interpol arrest him/her? What parents do not understand is that this is not a Hollywood movie where police swoop in and arrest…
‘I can’t abandon him. He’s my son’: A mom spends months in Algeria searching for her child
Algeria is a country that has very few options for the left behind parent who has their child abducted there. There is absolutely zero help from anyone and that is the reality. No State Department, no FBI, no Interpol no one can help abducted children in countries like Algeria. You need to know people in…
Why Do Parents Kidnap Their Own Children?
CARI Child Abduction Recovery International has carried out our own research and can confidently say, parents kidnap their own children for the following reasons: •To force a reconciliation or continued interaction with the left-behind parent; •To spite or punish the other parent; •From fear of losing custody or visitation rights; •In rare cases, to protect…
Japan International Parental Child Abduction
Foreign parents fight in vain for custody in Japan Emmanuel, Stephane, Henrik and James come from very different backgrounds, but they share the same painful experience of battling Japan’s legal system — in vain — for access to their children after divorce. Once married to Japanese women, they say they were prevented from contact with…
Turkey Parental Child Abduction
Turkey is party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. It signed the Hague convention on Jan. 21, 1998, and the convention entered the Turkish domestic code on Feb. 15, 2000, when it was published in Turkey’s Official Gazette. Turkey signed the convention, but accepted Article 26 — governing costs…
Federal judge rejects domestic violence defense in Brazilian grandparents’ kidnapping case
CARI – Child Abduction Recovery International A federal judge in Houston has affirmed a jury’s guilty verdict last month for a Brazilian couple tried on allegations they helped their daughter in the international kidnapping of their 8-year-old grandson, in a case that garnered widespread attention from top officials in two countries. Following the guilty verdict,…
Parental Child Abduction Case On Hold
Charter arguments in a child abduction case have been postponed while lawyers try to figure out the best way to hear evidence from authorities in Central America. Former Lethbridge lawyer Bill Wister was scheduled Tuesday in Lethbridge provincial court to show how his client’s Charter rights had been breached when she was forced from Belize…
Step forward for campaign to close legal ‘loophole’ on child abduction in Scotland
CAMPAIGNERS against abduction of children by a parent have hailed a Scottish Government consultation on a change in the law as a “positive development”. Scottish minsters are under pressure to close a “loophole” which means a parent can’t always be prosecuted if they take a child overseas from Scotland without the consent of the other…
USA-Brazil: Jury returns split verdict in international kidnapping case involving Houston boy
A case that made international headlines only a few months ago has gone to trial. Kidnapped boy still remains in Brazil. Great job to the FBI. The vacationing grandparents of a Houston boy were convicted Friday of aiding in an international kidnapping in a widely publicized dispute over an 8-year-old boy taken by his mother…
The Recovery From Lebanon We Didn’t Want Public…
Updated: 1 December 2018…. This is a recovery that CARI – Child Abduction Recovery International never intended to post about and was planning to keep our involvement silent in this matter out of respect to a past client. To the point that even the left behind parent in this case did not even know we…
