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LA
Im a stepmom my husbands daughter was taken by her BM
(never married) we have cared for the child for
the BM never attempt to come see or get the
child the child lived with the grndma for about 4yrs.
One day the she came to our state
and asked to see the child the father took the child to see
the BM she came up with a excuse to divert him away when he husband looked back he saw they were gone he went looking for them one lady said they went out the side door and ran with the child across a parking lot. For about a month not a call or anything to let us know where they had gone and if the child was safe.. she made threats to the fact that we better
not come see or try to retrieve the child. She didnt let us know where she is living and when we got the phone # doens't like for us to call we get either hangs ups or the answering machine or just told by the bm that we can't talk to child. Is there
anything that can be done? There are papers that have been filed we have been waiting for a court date but now this has happend.
Well If things couldn't get worse we tried to call the child the and found out that the bm had taken the child to another state and left her there.. while she is still in at home.. we don't know who
the other people are the bm stated that its her boyfnd and his family and wont give us the number to call her.. also members in her family call our home and threathen us about calling her. They said if we keep calling were gonna end up in body bags..


help!!

[Cookie97128]

Call the police. There is nothing else to do. The way she did it, it's considered Parental Kidnapping.
CALL THE POLICE ASAP
Cookie

I would think that would depend on who had legal custody of the child. I'm confused about the grandmother caring for this child for 4 yrs and not being with either parent. Maybe she has actual custody?
I think the death threats are enough to bring the police in on this.
I am sure you would need to talk to a legal expert in your state regarding this whole child abduction thing and I strongly recommend doing this as soon as possible.

I see so many of you on here state you are not a lawyer, so I will say the same thing, I am not a lawyer. But for reasons I choose not to go into on here, I am somewhat familiar with this parental kidnapping and there are a lot of factors that determine what can be done about this.
One idea is to get the word out to one of those agencies that deal with and post pictures of missing children.
Please let us know how this comes out.

We did call the police when it happend and before about the threats they did nothing. They were in a state together and lived together.. then hubby had to move bm didnt want to take care of the child she said it was too much for her.. so she contacted his parents and asked them to take the child.. hubby agreed.. she disappeared.. only to show up when it was convient hubby saw child all the time. I have called around the Child abuction agency said as soon as paternity is done they can charge her with PK. But the child was born around the time you didnt need to have anything done.. just his signature on papers at the hospital.. and the bm said he was the dad.. in the paperwork.. but still this child is with someone who is not stable and only knows with phone calls and everyone I contact states that we have to do paternity first.. well what if something in the place where this child is and you know its not right... then what ..

[kat1963]

I have a few questions. What states are involved here, namely, where are you? If the child is near me, I'll go get her for you..hubby has these old truck driver friends and we aren't afraid to use them!!!

You do have a lawyer right? How come he isn't filing an ex parte order for custody? I'd be taking it before the judge asap. It's kinda ironic you know, in many states just being on the birth certificate is enough to show paternity (true or NOT) in order to set up a case for child support.

I wish I had more answers for you. If it were me, I'd be taping everything to get the child back...even some shady means if I had to.

Good Luck Hon. I feel for you greatly!

KAT