Child Abduction

Abstract

Child theft or abduction is the crime of unlawfully eliminating or unlawfully preserving, or hiding a youngster or infant from custody of natural parents or guardians nominated for the child. Kidnapping or in other words abduction can be called snatching away individual coercion, by deceit, deception or harassment, or cruelty and taking him away from his residence.
While talking about the type which is being practiced widely is familial kidnapping. It normally takes place when the parents of a child part their ways. In this type, one of the parents with which the child lives forbid the child not to meet or talk with the other parent. It is because he or she has a fear that if the child meets with the other parent or talks to them, resultantly, he will get attached with them and hence his position in the child’s life will deteriorate. In some situations, children are taken by relatives for some time and later returned to either of their parents. In poor socioeconomic status and father’s unemployment state may lead to detainment of children with mother, who cannot meet the basic living needs and children are abducted for slavery especially young girls. Familial kidnapping has been signalized as inhuman treatment of the child. Frustrated and separated parents show their emotional reactions in the form of lack of affection and love, child abuse, and child neglect which also precipitate child abduction and sexual exploitation later on.
In familial kidnapping or abduction, the youngster is bound to stay in a similar town, district, or area, in a similar nation. It can also be kept in mind that often one of the parents sends the youngster to an entirely different country.
Global child kidnapping usually takes place when a parent goes with the youngster to a foreign state or even a condition that may imply that the youngster is forced to leave the country and not given a chance to come back to his native country. The incidence of global child abduction pursues to grow due to the facility of travelling abroad, growth of people being married based on two cultures, and excessive separation cases.