Abduction

School Janitor Saves 6-Year-Old From Being Kidnapped

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.15.2012

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John Velasquez, a janitor at PS 160 in New York's Bronx borough, may have saved a 6-year-old boy's life after a stranger claiming to be his uncle trie...

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Man Allegedly Locked Woman In Camper, Tortured Her With Torch, Stun Gun

AP | Posted 05.09.2012

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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Arkansas authorities say a woman who was allegedly held against her will and tortured before escaping went with her alleged ...

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Rebels Seek $10 Million Ransom In Peru Abductions

AP | FRANKLIN BRICENO | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Skanska, Ransom Demand, Abduction, Peru, Kidnapping, Rosalio Sanchez, Drugs, Edvard Lind, Shining Path, Communist Party of Peru, Ransa, Cocaine, Victor Quispe, World News

LIMA, Peru — Shining Path rebels are seeking a $10 million ransom for 40 Peruvian construction workers abducted in a pre-dawn raid at the countr...

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Historic Transition in Libya Must Not Forget the Survivors of Sexual Violence

Margot Wallström | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Women, Sexual Violence, Libya, Abduction, UN Security Council, Impact News

It is now crucial that Libya's own role in the country's historic transition must give hope and translate into assistance also for survivors of sexual violence.

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CHILLING VIDEO: Assault, Abduction At Long Island Rail Road Station

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 03.12.2012

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Cops are hunting for a man who attacked and possibly abducted a woman last week at a Long Island Rail Road station, new security footage released on S...

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Kidnapped Women Text Family: 'Help Us. They Got Us'

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Detroit Crime, Video, Kidnapped at Gunpoint, Abduction, Kidnapping, Arraignment, Brandon Cain, Help US They Got US, Abreeya Brown, Ex Boyfriend, Ashley Conaway, Michigan Crime, Crime News

As cops keep up the search for two Hamtramck, Mich. women kidnapped at gunpoint, an ex-boyfriend of one of them was arraigned on Thursday for allegedl...

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How Facebook Could Top Netflix In Streaming Land

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Online Streaming, Facebook Streaming, Lionsgate, Abduction, Live Theater, Facebook Films, Milyoni, Facebook Events, Facebook, Taylor Lautner, Culture News

When you're watching a film on your computer, does the idea of commenting on it in real time appeal to you? What if you could create an original live ...

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Missing Toddler Disappeared Day After Her Mother Tried To Regain Custody

AP | By GLENN ADAMS | Posted 12.20.2011

By GLENN ADAMS, Associated Press WATERVILLE, Maine -- Police said they were considering all possible scenarios in the search for a missing 20-month...

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Here's Why Taylor Lautner Had That Awkward Dinner With Gus Van Sant

Posted 01.02.2012

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Remember, back in July, when Taylor Lautner had dinner with Gus Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black, and that reporter from GQ Australia used the situatio...

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10-Year-Old Girl Abducted, Stabbed To Death: Police

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Texas, Jose Sifuentes, Video, Jasmen Gonzalez, Abduction, Kidnapping, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Texas Crime, Stabbing, Missing Persons, Carrollton, Missing Child, Missing Person, Crime News

A 10-year-old Oklahoma City girl who vanished Saturday night was found stabbed to death, according to the Dallas County medical examiner. A search ...

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Weekend Box Office: Moneyball Sets Record for Baseball Pic, Comes in Second to Lion King 3D Anyway. Taylor Lautner's Abduction and Statham's Killer Elite Open Low

Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Morgan Freeman, Taylor Lautner, Killer Elite, Lion King, 3d, Abduction, Dolphin Tale, Robert De Niro, Box Office (Weekend Rundown), Disney, Entertainment News

Unless Moneyball completely collapses for reasons unknown, Brad Pitt is (deservedly) guaranteed to receive a Best Actor Oscar nomination, and he is quickly looking like one of the front-runners to win.

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Mom Sought By Police For Abducting Her Eight Kids

AP | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Video, New York Crime, Abduction, Nypd, Kidnapping, Crime, Shanel Nadal, New York News

NEW YORK -- New York City police are looking for a woman who took eight of her own children from a child welfare agency without permission. The polic...

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Taylor Lautner Talks

Posted 11.20.2011

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Even non-Twihards know that Kristen Stewart is spoken for. When prompted to comment on Bella as a vampire, Taylor Lautner shared his true feelings...

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Is There Life After 'Twilight'?

Posted 11.16.2011

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After more than three years of playing werewolf Jacob Black in highly successful "The Twilight Saga," is hunky star Taylor Lautner ready to embrace hi...

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Alleged Kidnapper, 71, Pleads Not Guilty To '57 Abduction And Murder

AP | Posted 11.08.2011

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SYCAMORE, Ill. — A Seattle man pleaded not guilty Thursday in the 1957 kidnapping and killing of a 7-year-old Illinois girl whose body was exhum...

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Can Taylor Lautner Break Free Of 'Twilight?'

Posted 10.11.2011

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Coming off the heels of Mark Wahlberg's prophesy that Taylor Lautner will develop into a mega star who will make every other actor obsolete, his new m...

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Searching For Missing New Hampshire Girl

AP | By JOHN CURRAN | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Video, Abduction, Canada Border, New Hampshire, Fbi, Amber Alert, Celina Cass, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Missing Persons, Stewartstown, Crime News

STEWARTSTOWN, N.H. (AP) -- Shy and sweet, with a gap-toothed smile and a reputation as reliable, 11-year-old Celina Cass is the last person anyone in ...

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New Hampshire Honors Official Site Of 'First Widely Reported Alien Abduction'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 09.24.2011

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New Hampshire -- the "Live Free or Die" state -- has done something that may surprise UFO believers as well as skeptics. It has just erected a histori...

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DA Releases Garrido Couple's Creepy Home Videos

AP | TERENCE CHEA | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Home Video, Phillip Garrido, Lake Tahoe, Jaycee Dugard, Abduction, California, Nancy Garrido, California Crime, El Dorado, Antioch, Placerville, Missing Children, Crime News

SAN FRANCISCO — Newly released videos recorded by the Northern California couple who held Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years provide chillin...

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WATCH: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins A Couple In New Teenage Thriller

Posted 06.14.2011

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Taylor Lautner has shed his lone werewolf status. The "Twilight Saga" second fiddle and six pack champion stars in his first solo lead role, taking...

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It Doesn't Have to Be All Sex and Drinking This Spring

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.25.2011

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The deadly combination of hormones and alcohol doesn't have to claim your child this spring break. Julie Barsamian from CookTravel.Net offers six tips for how to make spring break safe and fun for your kids.

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Spanish Woman Allegedly Fakes Kidnapping To 'Test' Husband

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Spanish police have detained a woman who faked her own kidnapping to test whether her husband would pay ranson, sending him a photograph of herself wi...

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Pakistan's Institutionalized Discrimination Against Religious Minorities

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza | Posted 05.25.2011

Pakistan must implement legislation to ensure freedom of religion for all. What the country currently lacks is not a legal framework but genuine political will.

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Joseph Scott Carter Arrested On Suspicion Of Nederland Abductions

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boulder County, Hikers, Nederland, Boulder Police, Abduction, Denver News

UPDATE: Joseph Scott Carter, the man accused of kidnapping two Boulder-area hikers, was a former state Senate candidate. The Boulder Daily Camera rep...

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Minors in Migration: Child Trafficking in the Caribbean

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abduction, Anti-Trafficking in Persons Initiative, Anti-Kidnapping Unit Trinidad, Child Abduction, Child Abuse, Child Labor, Child Prostitution, Child Trafficking, Child Trafficking in Caribbean, Child Trafficking Dominican Republic, Child Trafficking Haiti, Child Trafficking Trinidad, Domestic Servitude, Human Trafficking, International Office of Migration, Iom, Kidnapping, Kidnapping Trinidad, Lena Johnson, Lena Johnson Trinidad, Missing Persons, Missing Persons Association, Mpa, New Life Children's Refuge, Oma Nanan, Oma Nanan Trinidad, Sale of Children, Sex Slavery, Tara Ramoutar, Tara Ramoutar Trinidad, Trafficking in Persons, Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, Tvpa, Debt Bondage, Nathiffa Mitchell, World News

One aspect of the human trafficking equation that does not get the attention it deserves is child trafficking - particularly in the Caribbean.

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