AIRED: June 13, 2016– 11 am PST
TITLE: “The Crisis of Parental Abductions”
SPECIAL GUEST: Allen Cardoza & Logan Clarke
WEB SITE: www.westshield.com & www.gp-pi.com
Every 40 seconds in the United States, a child becomes missing or is abducted. The FBI estimates that 85 to 90 percent of those (roughly 750,000 people or 2,000 per day) reported missing were children. The vast majority of these cases are resolved within hours.
According to the FBI, 49% of missing children have been abducted by a relative of the victim which is termed “family kidnapping”.
43 percent of parental kidnappers are women and most frequently involve children under 6, equally male and female children, and most abductions originate from the home.
Two federal criminal investigative options and one non-criminal or civil method may be pursued when a child is abducted by a parent and taken over state lines or outside the U.S.
- The International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act (IPKCA) of 1993: A criminal arrest warrant can be issued for a parent who takes a juvenile under 16 outside of the U.S. without the other custodial parent’s permission.
- Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution (UFAP)—Parental Kidnapping: When criminal charges are filed by a state that requests our help, a criminal arrest warrant can be issued for an abducting parent who flees across state lines or internationally.
- The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: In nations that have signed the Hague Convention, there is a civil process that facilitates the return of abducted children under 16 to their home countries.
Private Investigators, Allen Cardoza (owner of West Shield Adolescent Services and author of Running Away in America) and Logan Clarke,owner of Global Pursuit Investigations, each have over 30 years experience in locating abducted and runaway children.
Featured in a recent television episode of “Crime Watch”, Clarke and the fathers from two of his most recent parental kidnapping cases describe the dramatic search and harrowing rescue operations that located and reunited these parents and with their children.
In this “not-to-be-missed” interview, Allen and Logan share their passionate and joint mission to help families ripped apart by parental abduction. They bring special insights into the kidnapping parent’s motives, as well as the protocols used in their investigations and the emotional impact parents and juveniles experience during and after the event.
ABOUT ALLEN CARDOZA
Allen Cardoza, host of Answers for the Family radio show, by profession, has been a licensed private investigator for more than 30 years, Allen and his staff at Westshield Adolescence Services, have escorted thousands of teens to specialized schools and programs, returned hundreds of runaways and retrieved many abducted children.
Allen is also author of “Running Away in America, How Runaways Become Part of the Slave Trade” and co-author with world renowned motivational speaker, Les Brown entitled, “Fight for Your Dreams.”
ABOUT LOGAN CLARKE
Logan Clarke has spent 30 years in Government and Private Investigations and is considered one of the top investigators in the world today. He has been profiled in a BBC documentary, 5 books, Newsweek Magazine and dozens of other publications and TV shows around the globe.
Logan and his team have investigated over 8000 cases from MURDER to the “Mann Act” and they have rescued over 300 kidnapped and runaway victims, many of whom were forced into human trafficking.
He now trains and directs major undercover operations around the world for numerous agencies and is regularly an expert consultant on such shows as, 60 minutes, 48 hrs, 20/20, KABC Radio and many others.
