| year 354000 families find themselves caught in the | | | | Today PI's have many resources that can quickly |
| nightmare of parental abductions. | | | | resolve a parental abduction case. They can trace |
| A parental abduction is defined as “the taking, | | | | emails and use email tracing technology pinpoint the |
| retention, or concealment of a child or children by a | | | | exact location an email is opened and read. So for |
| parent, other family member, or their agent, in | | | | instance if they were to send a pretext email to the |
| derogation of the custody rights, including visitation | | | | abductor and the email was opened at a certain |
| rights, of another parent or family member” | | | | address at a certain time the PI could immediately |
| If your child is the victim of a parental abduction you | | | | notify the police in that jurisdiction to sweep in and |
| need to act quickly. You need to make contact with | | | | recover the child. |
| the police and establish a rapport with the detectives | | | | The same goes with cell phone forensics, |
| assigned to your case. | | | | triangulation,pinging and other telephone investigations. |
| You need to inform your lawyer or if you do not yet | | | | A PI will have contacts and connections that can |
| have a lawyer, retain one that has experience in | | | | assist him in locating the user of a cell phone. |
| parental abduction cases. | | | | Equally important is being aware of Internet |
| You should also hire a private investigator that has | | | | investigations. Such as being able to locate a person's |
| dealt with parental abductions. An investigator that has | | | | secret email accounts, or find secret personal ads and |
| experience in locating missing person, runaway children | | | | social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster and |
| and ball jumpers should also have handled many | | | | Facebook. |
| parental abduction cases. Be sure the investigator is an | | | | All of this information will assist an investigator in quickly |
| expert in modern technology and state of the art | | | | resolving a parental abduction case. If you do decide to |
| Internet investigations. | | | | retain an investigator make sure they have |
| You need to compile a list of everything you know | | | | successfully resolved parental abduction cases in the |
| about the parent that has committed the non custodial | | | | past. Make sure they are recognized as an expert in |
| parental kidnapping. Anything you know will help. Their | | | | the techniques like email tracing, personal ad |
| friends, family, previous jobs,phone numbers, where | | | | investigation and cell phone forensics we described |
| they like to vacation, email address, web sites. | | | | above. |
| Anything that could possible help investigators locate | | | | Before hiring the investigator do a quick Google search |
| them. | | | | on their name to see if they are recognized as an |
| People are creatures of habit and even someone on | | | | authority in non custodial parental abductions. Se if they |
| the run will return to their usual barber or hair stylist or | | | | have any experience in locating people with email |
| go back to their old dry cleaners to pick up clothes. So | | | | tracing, cell phone forensics and Internet investigations. |
| anything you can provide to investigators will help. | | | | |