Profiling International Child Abduction Suspects -- by Roger Alford

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QUOTE:

There was a fascinating case coming out of Indiana last month concerning the issue of profiling a person who is a serious risk for international child abduction. In Shady v. Shady, much of the case reads like a typical divorce and custody proceeding. But the interesting twist is that the custodial parent, Sheanin Shady, requested an order from the court that all parental visits by the non-custodial parent be supervised. Why? Not because he was at risk of hurting the child, but rather because she felt there was a credible risk that the father, a dual Egyptian-American national, would flee to Egypt with their five-year-old daughter.

The court relied upon an ABA manual on international child custody that identifies six risk profiles. The six factors are:

1. Have threatened to abduct or abducted previously;
2. Are suspicious and distrustful due to a belief abuse has occurred;
3. Are paranoid-delusional;
4. Are sociopathic;
5. Have strong ties to another country; and
6. Feel disenfranchised from the legal system.

The court concluded that factors 1 and 5 were applicable. It concluded that there had been a prior threat to remove the child to Egypt and that the father was an Egyptian national who had strong ties to his country of origin.

From one of the comments:

"Half of the children abducted are taken during visitation. Fact.

Children taken to some countries are faced with cultural practices that are illegal and considered “child Abuse” in the USA, i.e. FMG, Child Marriage, arranged Marriage, child soldiers and more. FACT

Two states have already adopted legislation that would required family court judges to rely on the same ABA risk factors used in the above case. It is expected that this will be nationwide very soon. FACT

800 children are parentally abducted each day in the USA. FACT

Many are never found. Parental kidnapping is child abuse. Parental kidnappers have killed their children. It is not uncomon for them to be abandoned to relatives and even orphanges in foreign countries where they do not even speak the language. It is the social ill that is just coming out of the closet. The problem is growing."