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The unharmed child was rescued and placed into protective custody by Arizona authorities.

County, claiming that because he was drunk deputies should have put him in a form of protective custody after he was denied entrance to the stadium because he didn’t have a ticket.

On Aug. 16, the children were found safe and taken into protective custody in Peru.

The ministry has since come under fire because officials questioned Jossimar Cabrera at the airport in Lima and took the children into protective custody, but didn’t detain him, according to several Peruvian media sources.

Mr De Wet will be taken into protective custody until the end of the trial.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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