By Ed Opperman
A parental abduction is defined as "the taking, retention, or concealment of a child or children by a parent, other family member, or their agent, in derogation of the custody rights, including visitation rights, of another parent or family member"
If your child is the victim of a parental abduction you need to act quickly. You need to make contact with the police and establish a rapport with the detectives assigned to your case.
You need to inform your lawyer or if you do not yet have a lawyer, retain one that has experience in parental abduction cases.
You should also hire a private investigator that has dealt with parental abductions. An investigator that has experience in locating missing person, runaway children and ball jumpers should also have handled many parental abduction cases. Be sure the investigator is an expert in modern technology and state of the art Internet investigations.
Today PI's have many resources that can quickly resolve a parental abduction case. They can trace emails and use email tracing technology pinpoint the exact location an email is opened and read. So for instance if they were to send a pretext email to the abductor and the email was opened at a certain address at a certain time the PI could immediately notify the police in that jurisdiction to sweep in and recover the child.
The same goes with cell phone forensics, triangulation,pinging and other telephone investigations. A PI will have contacts and connections that can assist him in locating the user of a cell phone.
Equally important is being aware of Internet investigations. Such as being able to locate a person's secret email accounts, or find secret personal ads and social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster and Facebook.
All of this information will assist an investigator in quickly resolving a parental abduction case. If you do decide to retain an investigator make sure they have successfully resolved parental abduction cases in the past. Make sure they are recognized as an expert in the techniques like email tracing, personal ad investigation and cell phone forensics we described above.
Before hiring the investigator do a quick Google search on their name to see if they are recognized as an authority in non custodial parental abductions. Se if they have any experience in locating people with email tracing, cell phone forensics and Internet investigations.
The author has over 15 years experience in tracking down and identifying cyber criminals. He has expanded and developed these internet tracing skills into the areas of parental abduction cares and locating runaway kids or dangerous bail jumpers with only an email address or screen name. http://www.EmailRevealer.com
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