Abducted

It is every parent’s worst nightmare – to discover that their child has been abducted and smuggled overseas. In these cases the perpetrator is not an anonymous stranger but a close relative, often the child’s other parent. In the UK a child is taken away by a parent or family member every 12 hours., It is every parent’s worst nightmare – to discover that their child has been abducted and smuggled overseas. In these cases the perpetrator is not an anonymous stranger but a close relative, often the child’s other parent. In the UK a child is taken away by a parent or family member every 12 hours. The parent left behind often has to endure years of heartache, with the prospect of litigation through a confusing succession of foreign courts and a debilitating fight with their ex-partner for the right just to see their child again. Some never do. The film follows three parents on emotional journeys as they desperately try to get their children back from countries around the world. It features exclusive access to a team of child recovery experts who bring children home and shows how some parents have resorted to desperate measures in order to see their kids again. Over the past decade the number of children abducted by an estranged partner has doubled.