abduction
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In 2007, she joined the San Joaquin County district attorney’s office, where she prosecuted misdemeanors and felonies and later served in the Domestic Violence and Child Abduction units.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
In the film “Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara,” a representative of Pope Pius IX arrives at a Jewish family’s home in Bologna, Italy, on a June night in 1858.
From New York Times • May 23, 2024
The Pet Abduction Bill, brought forward by Conservative MP Anna Firth, will make it a specific offence to abduct a pet in England and Northern Ireland.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2024
Matthew Bowman’s The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America offers the best and most comprehensive attempt yet to answer these and other questions.
From Slate • Sep. 11, 2023
In the fifth century Claudianus harked back to the old Greek myths of the battle of the Giants and of the Abduction of Persephone, although by that time Christianity was well established in Italy.
From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
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