Child Abduction

An attempted kidnapping suspect’s wife is claiming that her husband was just “joking” when he allegedly tried to abduct a 4-year-old from a Florida Walmart in a shocking incident caught on camera.

A nine-year-old girl who vanished during a camping trip with her family at Moreau Lake State Park in Saratoga County, New York, has been found safe, and a suspect involved in her disappearance is in custody, officials announced Monday.

New York State Police are searching for a 9-year-old girl they say was abducted Saturday night while she was camping with her family at Moreau Lake State Park in Saratoga County, New York.

A kidnapped Texas teen was rescued outside a California laundromat after a bystander noticed a piece of paper that read, “Help Me,” written in red ink.

A five-year-old boy who was allegedly kidnapped by his foster mother and taken to Vietnam was recently reunited with his birth mother on U.S. soil.

A man was arrested after his parents turned him in for allegedly attempting to abduct a ten-year-old girl outside her school in Thornton, Colorado.

A mother in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, was left alarmed and horrified when a man of “possible Middle Eastern origin” approached her as she walked her young daughter to school and attempted to “buy” her.

An accused kidnapper has claimed that the child’s father sold the little girl for $10,000, according to reports. 

After more than 45 years, James Alan Neal has been arrested for the alleged murder of 11-year-old Linda O’Keefe in July 1973 in California.

A Florida mother accused of killing her two-year-old son initially told authorities he had been abducted before admitting to investigators she hit the toddler before leaving him in the woods, police said.

Indian police announced on Monday they have conducted 30 arrests for the Friday murder of Mohammed Azam, who was murdered by a frenzied mob after a rumor accusing him of kidnapping children spread on the WhatsApp social media platform.

Authorities have issued an AMBER Alert for a seven month old girl reportedly abducted by an armed sex offender at a gas station in Virginia early Monday morning, police said.

A report has slammed the “national scandal” of the UK failing to prosecute a single child abuser committing or enabling Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), saying it shows the system is failing to fight the practice, which is associated with some migrant groups.

A New York man, who conned desperate parents of internationally abducted children into giving him thousands of dollars by falsely telling them he could find and return their youngsters safely, was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested 45 individuals in Louisiana as part of an operation related to an international human trafficking sting.

HOUSTON, Texas – A man is captured by a bizarre grocery store security video in what a Texas mother describes as an attempted child abduction.

LAFOURCHE PARISH, Louisiana – Two Louisiana teens were jailed after they taunted Central Lafourche High School, taking turns wearing a clown mask while driving circles around the school.

A Louisiana police chief says he is taking rumored incidents of clowns luring school children into wooded areas very seriously, telling pranksters they would be charged with “terrorizing” the community if caught.

The number of incidents of child sacrifice — in which witch doctors abduct children to use their body parts in potions or rituals — in Uganda increased significantly in 2015 as the nation braced for election season, thanks to desperate political candidates seeking any possible advantage at the polls.

HOUSTON, Texas — A sixteen-year-old female Katy Independent School District (ISD) student is safe after being kidnapped Monday morning while waiting for school bus.  The young girl’s ordeal ended after about two hours when she managed to escape using some quick thinking and