The number of child abductions from or to the Netherlands fell last year for the first time in four years, by 11 percent. The International Child Abduction Center reported this on Tuesday in its annual report for 2023. The number of child abductions fell from 292 in 2022 to 260 last year. “A positive development, as every kidnapping is a …
During this year’s summer holidays, 58 children were kidnapped by one of their parents and taken across the Dutch border. Forty of them were abducted in the Netherlands and taken abroad, and the other 18 were brought into the Netherlands from another country, the Center for International Child Abduction reported Friday. Of the 40 children abducted in the Netherlands, twelve …
During the past summer holidays, 50 children were kidnapped by one of their parents. 37 of them were taken abroad from the Netherlands, 13 were brought to the Netherlands from abroad, the Center for International Child Abduction said on Friday. Center IKO said that this past summer it again noticed in "thousands of phone calls" that parents often do not …
