PARENTAL KIDNAPPINGS
Are you a custodial Dad?
Has Mom kidnapped your kid(s)?
I can help!
I can help you with all six types of parental kidnappings, depending on where you live and where Mom took the child(ren):
1. You live in Washington (I mean Washington State), and Mom has taken the child(ren) somewhere else in Washington.
2. You live in Washington, and Mom has taken the child(ren) to some place in the United States that is outside Washington.
3. You live in Washington, and Mom has taken the child(ren) to some place outside the United States.
4. You live in Washington, and you don't know where Mom has taken the child(ren).
5. You live in the United States, but not in Washington State, and Mom has taken the child(ren) to Washington State.
6. You live outside the United States, and Mom has taken the child(ren) to Washington State.
I represent a lot of clients who do not live in Washington but have legal business here; I have a toll-free fax number for my clients.
Wherever you live in the United States, be sure to log on to
this website: http://www.operationlookout.org/index1.htm.
In Washington State, contact: Operation Lookout
6320 Evergreen Way, suite 201
Everett, WA 98203
(425) 771-7335
In Washington State:
If the kidnapping has just happened:
1. . . and you think Mom is on the way to another State or another country, or you're not sure where she's going, call the Federal Bureau of Investigation: http://www.fbi.gov/contactus.htm.
2. Call you local police force and the State Patrol.
The King County Sheriff's Office Child Find Unit specializes in custodial interference and parental kidnapping incidents. Custodial interference means that a parent has taken a child with the intention of keeping the child from the other parent. The Child Find Unit can be reached at (206) 296-4308.
3. Call security at your local airport, train station, bus station, the Alaska Marine Highway, other ferry systems.
4. Fax recent photographs of your child(ren) and Mom, with accurate descriptions, especially heights. (When Moms kidnap their kids, they often put wigs on the kids, and it's not unusual for them to dress boys as girls or vice versa.)
5. If she's driving, tell everybody what she's driving and her car's license plate number.
If Mom has a good head start or you just feel overwhelmed, call me.
DON'T GIVE UP!
I'll never forget one hectic day, when two of my clients had their children kidnapped by their mothers on the same day.
By that night, we had both sets of kids back with their Dads.
One Mom was stopped when she tried to board a ferry to Alaska, and the other was stopped, after she drove into Idaho, by an Idaho State trooper who was parked at a truck inspection station when he saw her drive by.
There were -- and still are -- three keys to success:
1. We moved fast.
2. We knew what to do.
3. We already had recent photographs and the other information we needed to start sending out by fax.
If you're represented by another attorney . . .
. . . has your attorney asked you for recent photographs of Mom and the kid(s)and for the information about them that cops, security, and the FBI need to spot Mom and the child(ren)?
If not . . . . . . do you still think you have the right attorney?
Joshua Foreman
Attorney at Law