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The biology and attitudes of the abductors are points of drastic divergence between the home countries of abduction claimants. Robert Sheaffer says, "In North America large-headed gray aliens predominate, while in Britain abduction aliens are usually tall, blond and Nordic, and South America tends toward more bizarre creatures, including hairy ...
Post-abduction syndrome" is a term used by abductees to describe the effects of abduction, though it is not recognized by any professional treatment organizations. [41] People who have a false memory which makes them believe that they have been abducted by aliens develop symptoms similar to post-traumatic stress disorder .
A movie and book about Feeney's exploits lead to other desperate parents seeking him out for recovery services. [5] By 2007, both the United States, European authorities, and NGO's had begun serious interest in the use of mediation as a means by which some international child abduction cases may be resolved. The primary focus was on Hague Cases.
London Syndrome is the opposite of both Stockholm and Lima Syndromes: one or more hostages arouse the kidnappers' antipathy by defying them, trying to escape or, in the case of a political kidnapping, arguing with them, disqualifying their ideology. These hostages end up being executed by their captors at the first opportunity. [12]
Parental child abduction is the hiding, taking, or keeping hold of a child by a parent while defying the rights of the child's other parent or guardian. [1] This abduction often occurs when the parents separate or begin divorce proceedings. One parent may take or retain the child to gain an advantage in subsequent child-custody proceedings.
In several cases, Terr found, children had dreamed of their own deaths: of being lined up and shot or being killed by the kidnappers on the bus.
A woman who was abducted as a baby from a U.K. hospital has died at 30 following a brain cancer diagnosis. Abbie Humphries was kidnapped by a woman pretending to be a nurse three hours after she ...
The kidnapping of 287 students this week in Kaduna State in northwestern Nigeria was only the latest such attack. A decade since the Chibok abduction, more than 1,400 Nigerian students have been ...