Sunday, February 13, 2011

Center for Missing and Exploited Children


I was watching a movie the other day called The Tiffany Rubin Story: How I got My Child Back.
It's about a woman who had a child with a man, whose native land was Korea. He lived in the U.S. and had custody of the child every other weekend and one week ever summer. He asked his wife if he could take their son (colby) to walt disney world in florida for a week. She said yes, but he never took their son to disneyland, but to Seoul, Korea. Ms. Rubin contacted the FBI who found the two in Korea, and issued an arrest warrant for the father. The problem was that Korea doesn't recognize U.S. law in their jurisdiction and the U.S. had no authority to go in and take the child. Five months went by with no resolution about bringing her kidnapped son home. She went to visit a man who works for the Center for Missing and exploited Children, who helps bring children back from other countries. He said without a contact in that country it was too dangerous to try to get him back. He did say that teachers in Korea have website and that if you posted a picture of Colby a teacher might contact her. She posted a picture of her son and a teacher called her with a location of her son. She and the man from the Center for missing children went to korea, pulled her son out of class and raced to the U.S. embassy before they closed. The father had issued a warrant for the arrest of the mother,but because the embassy has closed for the weekend, they let the mother and the man take Colby back to the U.S.. Her husband was eventually arrested in Singapore trying to get back into the U.S. and is now serving time in jail. 

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  1. Hey, emailed you about your witness character. Make sure to get me your answers by tmrw. Thanks.
    brooke.hansen0719@gmail.com

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