Abducted Children Returned to the United States

The Department of State’s Bureaus of Consular Affairs and Diplomatic Security recently located two abducted children in Paraguay and reunited them with their mother in Kentucky.

The children, ages six and three, are American citizens. The children’s father had abducted them from their home on June 29 and taken them to live with his girlfriend in Paraguay. The father returned to the United States. When he failed to surrender the children to their mother, Kentucky police arrested him.

The search for the children took a positive turn earlier this month after the Bureau of Consular Affairs’ Office of Children’s Issues notified the U.S. Embassy in Asuncion that the children might be in Paraguay. A Diplomatic Security special agent at the embassy located the children at the girlfriend’s home, and worked with local authorities to remove the children from the girlfriend’s custody and return them to their mother.

A Diplomatic Security special agent escorted the children back to the United States and reunited them with their mother on Sunday, July 25.

For more information, please contact the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky.

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