abduction
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She petitioned for help under the Hague Convention, prompting action from the Orange County District Attorney’s Child Abduction Unit, which located the child.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
In the film “Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara,” a representative of Pope Pius IX arrives at a Jewish family’s home in Bologna, Italy, on a June night in 1858.
From New York Times • May 23, 2024
Matthew Bowman’s The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America offers the best and most comprehensive attempt yet to answer these and other questions.
From Slate • Sep. 11, 2023
The most recent figures show that its International Child Abduction and Contact Unit - which helps to return children taken overseas by one parent without the other's consent - is dealing with 1,341 cases.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2023
"Abduction and 9th George IV," rushed into my head; but I carelessly said:— "So I am to be stolen property."
From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Kavanagh, Julia
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