INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTIONS ON THE RISE

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Child Abduction: Cases Rise By 88%, Foreign Office Warn Parents 'May Never Have Child Returned'

FULL ARTICLE AT HUFFPO

Many of the cases have been high-profile stories, including British 13-year-old Adam Jones, apparently held in Qatar by his late father's family. His mother Rebecca Jones said she had been trying to bring him home since 2009.

Another mother, Leila Sabra has organised protests in Westminster to raise awareness of the case of her five-year-old daughter A'ishah, who is in Egypt after her dad allegedly failed to return her after a routine custody visit in 2009.

An investigation into the trend by The Huffington Post UK, found that in the UK it is estimated more than 140,000 children go missing every year, one every three minutes.

The statistic was calculated by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre, which includes teenage runaways, parental abductions and kidnappings.

In the new stats released on Wednesday, last year alone the Foreign Office’s Child Abduction Section fielded an average of four calls per day to its specialist advice line, more than half of which were new cases.

Cases were worked on in 84 different countries, showing just how widespread the problem has become.

The Foreign Office also warned that they often have little power to intervene in foreign cases. 

England and the U.S. are both seeing a rise in the number of international parental abductions. 
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MISSION FOR MUNA

Noelle Hunter speaks about her daughters abduction.

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