Free Republic

New York authorities are still searching for the 9-year-old girl who may have been abducted from Moreau Lake State Park on Saturday evening. Charlotte Sena was last seen on Loop A at approximately 6:15 p.m. Saturday wearing an orange tie-dye Pokémon shirt, dark blue pants, black Crocs and a gray bike helmet, New York State Police say. Sena was on a camping trip with her family and disappeared after going for a bike ride in the park, the Times Union reports. She is described as being White with blonde hair, standing 5-foot-1 and weighing 90 pounds. Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY)...

The 15-year-old Ukrainian schoolgirl was taken one warm morning last October. Like everyone else in Kherson, a city on the estuary of the Dnipro river in southern Ukraine, Yevheniia's family were still adjusting to life under Russian control. Putin's tanks and troops had poured into the city seven months earlier, soon after the invasion of Ukraine began. Now there were checkpoints, military police, rumours of Russian brutality; of women being raped. Ukraine was fighting to get the city back and there was a constant risk of shelling. Few people went out after 5pm. In the apartment where the teenager lived...

The German and Dutch foreign ministers on Monday condemned the deportation by Russians of thousands of Ukrainian children, calling it a deliberate policy of cruel and inhumane abductions that is tearing families apart. Since Moscow launched its war in Ukraine nearly a year ago, Russians have been accused of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories to raise them as their own. At least 1,000 children were seized from schools and orphanages in the Kherson region during Russia’s eight-month occupation of the area, local authorities say. Their whereabouts are still unknown. Russia claims that these children don’t have parents...

The man accused of abducting four-year-old Cleo Smith from her family tent and holding her captive for 18 days had a doll room inside his house. Terence Darrell Kelly, 36, was arrested by WA Police after detectives raided his locked Tonkin Crescent home at 12.46am on Wednesday local time and found the little girl alone inside a bedroom.

There has been an arrest in a frightening attempted abduction in the Bronx. A man tried to take a little girl who was walking with her grandmother and siblings on Monday, but he then got away. However, he was taken into police custody hours later, CBS2’s Jenna DeAngelis reported. The video is shocking. Fear grips the grandmother and even the little girl’s siblings. Thankfully, good Samaritans intervened. While the suspect initially got away, CBS2 was told police later found him sleeping in the doorway of a nearby business and recognized him from the video. The surveillance footage shows the grandmother...

Islamic law permits the possession of concubines, or sex slaves.  This has been demonstrated countless times, including through Islamic clerics quoting Islamic scriptures, and through ordinary Muslims, past and present, acting on it.Boko Haram members stand if front of “Allahu Akbar” banner That said, Islamic sanctioned sex-slavery does not perturb the Western world simply because the powers-that-be—specifically academia, media, and government—ignore it, and all other unsavory phenomena associated with Islam, out of existence.Interesting, therefore, are the responses from the authorities—comical one might even say—when one of these everyday anecdotes actually does surface to the general public.Enter the recent abduction...

Two Pennsylvania teens are being hailed as heroes after they chased down a man in a car who had snatched a five-year-old girl from her grandmother's front yard - on their bikes. Jocelyn Rojas, five, was missing for two hours yesterday when Temar Boggs and a friend saw the child in a car near Lancaster Township and gave chase. After Boggs, 15, and his friend had been tailing the vehicle for 15 minutes, the driver let the little girl out of the car and sped off.

Police in Hillsville are trying to make sense of a possible kidnapping. According to the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, a housekeeper at the Quality Inn hotel found a note that said it was from a child named Jasmine Hines. The note's author says she is "missing and the cops are looking for me." The sheriff's office said a search of databanks showed no signs of a missing child named Jasmine Hines. The incident started, according to the sheriff's office, when a Canadian man named Pierre Morand checked into the hotel near Exit 14 on Interstate 77. He rented a room...

YOUR ASSISTANCE PLEASE GUYS. This bill started its life as HB2136 (Child Abduction PreventionPennsylvaniaHB 21362012KulaIntroduced) It was dead there, but 13 Senators (INTRODUCED BY CORMAN (R), TOMLINSON (R), BROWNE (R), D. WHITE (R), RAFFERTY (R), ERICKSON (R), ALLOWAY (R), SOLOBAY (D), BAKER (R), TARTAGLIONE (D), FERLO (D), MENSCH (R) AND LEACH (D), MARCH 20, 2012 ) have picked the bill up. It is out of committee already. Please help stop this bill. We appear to have stopped it in the other states so far this year. Nick Dear Senator Richard L. Alloway II PLEASE DO NOT PASS Senate Bill 1449...

An unused, unstamped train ticket helped lead to charges against a Seattle man in the abduction and killing of a 7-year-old Illinois girl in 1957. Prosecutors in northern Illinois' DeKalb County charged Jack Daniel McCullough, 71, on Friday with murdering Maria Ridulph, who was last seen playing with a friend near her home in Sycamore, about 50 miles west of Chicago. Mushroom hunters found Maria's remains five months later in a wooded area about 100 miles from her hometown. McCullough claimed he took the train from Rockford, Ill., to Chicago the day of the abduction. But The Seattle Times, citing...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – A Haitian judge said he would order the release on Wednesday of eight of 10 American missionaries accused of kidnapping children, while the remaining two would be held for further questioning. Laura Silsby, the leader of the group, and Charisa Coulter, were being kept for further investigation, .. The 10 Americans, most of whom are members of an Idaho-based Baptist Church, were arrested last month on charges that they tried to take 33 Haitian children out of the country without proper documentation after the devastating January 12 earthquake in Haiti.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—In a closed courtroom in one of the few government buildings still standing here, Laura Silsby and nine other American missionaries were charged Thursday with abducting children from this earthquake-ravaged capital. When the proceeding was done, the 40-year-old from a mountain valley in Idaho walked out of Le Tribunal de Paix, past a scrum of microphones, cameras and seething Haitians and into a government minivan with a co-defendant. As they waited to return to a fetid cell with mattresses on a concrete floor, they appeared to pray.

DEVELOPING: A Haitian attorney says 10 Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake have been charged with child kidnapping. Edwin Coq says the Americans also are charged with criminal association. The 10 appeared in court Thursday and were whisked away to a jail in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince.

In most countries tens - perhaps hundreds - of thousands of children being abducted and sold on the black market would be seen as a national crisis, but not, it seems, in China. The government is touting some success in cracking down on child-trafficking gangs, but Adrian Brown finds distraught Chinese parents taking matters into their own hands. REPORTER: Adrian Brown These grainy images of a supermarket security camera record a young child being abducted. A woman leaves followed by the child, who appears distressed. The woman has taken the little girl's umbrella. Outside, the child will vanish, like tens...

Dear sir, Mississippi is in danger of enacting a horrible, unconstitutional bill -HOUSE BILL NO. 599 http://index.ls.state.ms.us/isysnative/UzpcRG9jdW1lbnRzXDIwMDlcbm90ZGVhZFxoYlwwNTAwLTA1OTlcaGIwNTk5c2cucGRm/hb0599sg.pdf#xml=http://10.240.72.35/isysquery/irl4bc4/1/hilite Please READ and UNDERSTAND this bill. Please ask your Governor to VETO this bill. How many children must die or be traumatized by this law because you failed to read it and understand it's consequences !!! You just authorized one party in a divorce to ask the judge, via an EX-PARTE order to declare the other parent a 'potential felon', in CIVIL COURT no less, and to request that the children be seized from that parents home in the dead of night (remember...

Session 117 - (2007-2008) S 0486 General Bill, By Hayes A BILL TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SUBARTICLE 9 TO ARTICLE 3, CHAPTER 7, TITLE 20 SO AS TO ENACT THE "UNIFORM CHILD ABDUCTION PREVENTION ACT" TO PROVIDE A LEGAL MECHANISM TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM CREDIBLE RISKS OF ABDUCTION RELATED TO A LEGAL CUSTODY OR VISITATION. View full text 02/22/07 Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-8 02/22/07 Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary SJ-8 03/01/07 Senate Referred to Subcommittee: Ritchie (ch), Rankin, Lourie, Scott (A) When determining the existence of a credible...

Colorado Governor Ritter Signs 26 Bills Into Law Today May 14, 2007 -- Colorado Governor Bill Ritter signed 26 bills into law today, including the second-parent adoption and human-sexuality education bills. More than 200 additional bills are pending before the governor, with a deadline of June 4. The bills signed today and their sponsors: HB 1019, Carriers Exempt Public Utilities (Rep. Mike Cerbo and Sen. Joan Fitz-Gerald) HB 1141, Purchase of Metals Record Keeping (Rep. Nancy Todd, Sen. Suzanne Williams) HB 1156, Disclose Source Residential Water Supply (Rep. Marsha Looper, Sen. Ken Gordon) HB 1174, Repeal Sunset Concealed Carry Database...

Source: Louisiana State Legislature 05/09/2007 S Read by title, committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to a third reading. 05/08/2007 S Reported with amendments. 04/30/2007 S 9 Read by title and referred to the committee on Judiciary A. 04/17/2007 S Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the committee on Judiciary A. Proposed law creates the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act. Proposed law provides that a petition under the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act may be filed only in a court that has jurisdiction to make a custody determination with respect to the child at issue...

MANATEE - The suspected abductor of Clay Moore is in custody this morning. The arrest of Vicente Ignacio Beltran-Moreno came 12 days after the gunpoint kidnapping of the 13-year-old Palmetto schoolboy. A 2 p.m. news conference was scheduled by the Manatee County Sheriff's Office to provide more information about the arrest. Beltran is a 22-year-old laborer who had been working construction recently. He lived with his girlfriend and two children in a house east of Bradenton. Clay Moore was taken at gunpoint on Friday, Feb. 23, just before 9 a.m. at the school bus stop that adjoins Kingsfield Estates, where...

Police in Gaffney are searching for a man who they say grabbed a six-year-old girl and took off with her in his car trunk before releasing her a short time later. Gaffney detectives said that at about sunset Thursday, Tamia Adams was playing with other children near the Limestone Court apartment complex at 940 N. Limestone Court when the man grabbed her and threw her in the trunk of the car. Witnesses said Tamia was screaming for her mother as the man tossed her into the truck and took off heading south. A little girl who was playing with Tamia...