Another link was sent to me about yet another victim of family abduction. Jan Rokos was abducted by his mother from the Czech Republic and found stabbed to death and stuffed in the trunk of her car six months later. His father tried to get the police to investigate but (as is usual) he got no help.
I hope I do not get sent a third link tomorrow telling me about another kid abducted by a parent and found deceased.
I just got sent a link about the case of Yazmina Acar, abducted by her father in November 2010 from her Australia home and later murdered by him. He told his ex-wife he did it to get back at her, which is really the motivation for most family abductions. He pled guilty to her murder several days ago.
I wish I didn’t have to keep adding to this list.
POLICE in three countries are hunting for six-year-old twin girls after their father who had snatched them from their home in Switzerland threw himself under an Italian train, reports said today.
Italy’s ANSA news agency said helicopters, mounted police and tracker dogs were searching around Cerignola in the southern region of Puglia for Alessia and Livia Schepp.
Their father Matthias, 43, committed suicide at Cerignola station yesterday.
It’s another family abduction. Maybe their father didn’t kill them beforehand. I really hope he didn’t. I was hoping this year would be free of such things. If someone else has them, I hope they get returned to their mother. No one needs this kind of pain.
A former Fairfax County resident who allegedly flew with her children to Moscow two years ago, in violation of a custody agreement with her ex-husband, is now facing kidnapping charges.
Federal prosecutors say 46-year-old Aziza Mirzoeva took her two children to Canada to visit her son from a previous marriage in December 2008. They were scheduled to return to Virginia on Jan. 20, 2009, but the trio flew to Moscow instead.
Although I found this article about the Mirzoev boys earlier in January, for some reason I never posted it here. It did resolve my wonderment that Russia extradited her – she was apprehended in Germany. Their father indicates that he doesn’t want her to be prosecuted, but the authorities are going ahead with it anyway. While I understand his desire to not get his ex-wife in legal trouble, the fact is she committed a federal crime – international parental kidnapping. Very few people are even apprehended for it, and sometimes an example needs to be made. The chances she will get any real jail time is small because almost no parental kidnappers do. The crime is usually minimized.
I coasted on the good feelings of Jaycee Dugard’s recovery for several months, so to start the year with the news that Carlina White, abducted from Harlem Hospital in 1987, has been found safe is very good news indeed. Carlina found herself on NCMEC after she noticed her “mother” had no birth certificate for her and she did not resemble her. It is also reported that she has a younger brother, who I hope the authorities will also check to make sure he is not an abducted child. Carlina’s case is of course different from Dugard’s in that almost all authorities involved thought she was still alive and abducted by someone who wanted a child, which is a common motivation in infant abductions. Since there was a possibility she was involved in a black market adoption (along with Christopher Dansby and Shane Walker, also young children abducted from New York in the same time period) I hope that this may lead to them coming home as well.
After some time thinking about the subject, I have decided to open the For the Lost site to include people missing from Canada and Mexico. All of the previous criteria must be met to include a case from either of those places. (Mexican cases do not have NCIC numbers and thus do not need them for inclusion; Canadian cases can have them but entry is not a requirement and thus lack of one does not mean the case cannot be taken.)
Danyela and Deyan Perisic were both shot by their non-custodial father when authorities came to arrest him. Deyan was killed and his sister critically injured. This is sadly not a new phenomenon: Deirdre Crowley and Rebecca Aramburo were both murdered by their abducting parent when the authorities found them. (I will not state the string of curse words I said when I got the recovery notice from NCMEC informing me of Deyan’s death.)
Playa Del Rey – Two brothers who allegedly kidnapped their three sons from Playa Del Rey and took them out of the country in 2008 were arrested in the Netherlands and the boys were found safe, federal authorities announced on Friday.
George and Jean John Silah have been fugitives since they disappeared with the three boys on July 2, 2008.
This is one of the many articles I found about the Silah boys. Most simply detail that the authorities were looking for them abroad and the boys were believed to be endangered because of unsavory business dealings of their fathers. Their mothers have headed to the Netherlands to be reunited with them, and I hope it all goes well.
A Pennsylvania woman wanted on an FBI warrant for allegedly fleeing parental kidnapping charges lived for as long as two years with her daughter, under assumed names, with the Intercessors of the Lamb religious group in Omaha.
And after a friend of the Intercessors spotted a wanted poster at a Walmart store, the then-director of the group, Mother Nadine Brown, allegedly directed someone to drive the woman, Carolyn Casey-Keyvani, and her child to California, an Omaha archdiocese official and a former Intercessor said.
This article is the only one I have been able to find about Caroline Keyvani. In it it says that her mother claimed her father was going to send her to Iran to become a sex slave. While that is not remotely credible to most people, it demonstrates the warped mindset of many parental abductors, as well as being a potential sign of mental illness. I hope Caroline is doing well at home now.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Three children from Indiana are reunited with their mother after missing for more than 2-1/2 years.
“It is the most wonderful thing that I could ever imagine,” said Leeanna Dinkens, the children’s mother.
Dinkens talked to 24 Hour News 8 over the phone Saturday morning after reuniting with her children Sierra, Jasmine and Jaden.
I was sent this article about Jaden and Jasmine Cummins and Sierra Emberton. They were located in Mexico, apparently, which is where they were expected to be. Jaden and Jasmine apparently no longer speak English. Their mother has also re-married. The conditions they were living in were typical of family abductions – they slept on cots or on cement floors and they didn’t know what a bathtub was. I wish them and their mother the best in reuniting.