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abducted

ADJECTIVE
taken away by force
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In 1997 he married Catherine Laylle Volkmann, who ran Parents and Abducted Children Together, an international campaign, to allow divorced and separated parents access to their children.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2022

The wackiness of "Abducted in Plain Sight," the sheer brazen grifting at the core of "McMillions," and most of the cases profiled on "Dateline" all qualify.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2020

Her story is told in the Netflix documentary Abducted in Plain Sight.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2019

Another recent documentary, Abducted in Plain Sight, told the unbelievable story of a girl taken from under her parents’ noses by a neighbour who’d seduced them both.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2019

Abducted, of course; but why assume they were killed?

From The Affair of the Brains by Gilmore, Anthony




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