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New article from Tim Maier: Data Missing on Missing Children (Issue date 9/2/2002) So how many children are missing, from where and what are their names? No one knows for sure. Dave Thelen, chief executive officer for the nonprofit Committee for Missing Children Inc., has been trying to get reliable statistics for years and would like to see NCMEC back up its numbers with a complete database of names and case histories.
New article from Tim Maier: Kids Abandoned On Ryan's Watch (7/29/2002) Ryan also angered parents by calling these kidnapping cases "custody disputes." The term infuriated parents who pointed out that in many cases courts formally had given custody to American parents from whom a child was kidnapped, and in others international warrants had been issued for the arrest of the kidnappers.
No Child Aboard is the name of a new CD for non-custodiall parents from Displaced Dads. The site has MP3s of some of the tunes. Our favorite: "Mommy, Where is Daddy?" Be sure to read the notes. And fathers, listen to "Crappy Father's Day" on Father's Day.
Insight Magazine's June 18, 2001, investigative report by Timothy W. Maier reveals that a "mole" in of the staff of Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. played a part in the kidnapping of Celina and Stephanie, and that Monique Fasel used a fake custody order to kidnap the children. Be sure to check out all of Tim Maier's articles on international parental child abduction; there is a list here.
The New York Law Review mentions how Monique used a fake custody order to abduct Celina and Stephanie in their February, 2001, issue.
We are looking for someone to write a report on the recent P.A.R.E.N.T. Conference 2001 (June 7-9 in Washington, D.C.). Should be about the length of the one we did last year
Celina and Stephanie
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