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Of the 797,500 children reported missing in any given year, 203,900 of those are abducted by a family member, often in the midst of a messy divorce. Most of these cases last a few months before the child is returned to the custodial parent, and only 6 percent of children abducted by a parent are found more than six months past their disappearance, according to statistics from the US Department of Justice.
That’s what makes the case of Jessica Click-Hill such an anomaly. Her mother, Wendy Hill, was arrested this week fifteen years after she disappeared with her then 8-year old daughter.
Jessica, who no longer goes by that name, is now 22 and lives in a different state than her mother. Continue reading »
It was a “Not Without My Daughter” kind of weekend. Not in a life-imitating-art kind of way. I just happened to read read two articles in different publications and was reminded me of that early ’90s Sally Field movie that got people looking suspiciously at any family with parents of different nationalities.
In both pieces, a child has been taken from home in the U.S. to live with a biological father abroad. How the mothers worked to return the child to the U.S. couldn’t have been more different. Both situations are pretty unimaginable, but child abduction typically is, right? Continue reading »
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