FBI: Biological mom took adopted girl
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A woman, her sister and an armed man stormed a home wearing masks and kidnapped an infant the woman had given up for adoption, whisking the baby to a military base three states away, authorities alleged Sunday.
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Police said Sunday a DNA link between the disappearance of a 19-year-old woman and the December sexual assault of a college student leads them to believe a sole attacker was responsible for both cases.
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A woman posing as a nurse abducted a 3-day-old girl in need of medical attention from a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday, police said. Baby Mychel Darthard-Dawodu's security bracelet was removed, the hospital administrator said. Police are hunting the suspected kidnapper -- a 5-foot-3-inch African-American woman seen on security cameras in pink nurse's scrubs with purple and blue flowers.
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Law enforcement authorities in Missouri were searching on Friday for a newborn baby girl who they said was cut out of her murdered mother&#39;s womb before being kidnapped.
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RED DEER, Alta. (CP) - An Alberta woman whose son was said to have discovered he was a missing child when he Googled his name on the Internet was sentenced to two months in jail for child abduction.
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Germany&#39;s Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and his wife Doris have adopted a three-year-old Russian girl who has been living with them for over a fortnight, Germany&#39;s mass circulation Bild newspaper revealed yesterday.
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Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie has  applied through a U.S. agency to adopt a Vietnamese child, a  top Vietnamese adoption official said over the weekend.
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The mother and prime suspect in the disappearance of a 2-year-old boy said her parental shortcomings led her to suicide, according to a letter released by investigators Tuesday.
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Officers who believe they have traced the mother of a new-born found dead in a garden, say a 15-year-old is receiving medical help.
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A newborn girl with her umbilical cord still attached was found in a basket on a doorstep 45 miles from where a pregnant woman vanished, authorities said Tuesday. A DNA sample was taken from the infant Tuesday and was given to authorities investigating the disappearance.
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Texas authorities are investigating claims that a US mother left her seven adopted children in Nigeria and went to work in Iraq.
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Police agree to destroy DNA swabs and fingerprints taken from an 11-year-old Londonderry girl last month.
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More than 100,000 children who have been abused or neglected by their biological parents are languishing in foster care, waiting to be adopted. The explanations are practically universal, with nearly every state facing the same problems in running its child welfare agency, a report finds.
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A kidnapped 14-year-old girl texts her mother from her keeper's cell phone. Authorities rescue her, using the message to help target their search area.
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A family law attorney was found Wednesday about nine hours after she was abducted at gunpoint from a parking lot and police arrested a man suspected in the kidnapping, officials said.
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CHICAGO -- Federal authorities have seized a videotape believed to be at the center of an alleged blackmail attempt against New York Yankees slugger Gary Sheffield and his wife, a prosecutor said.
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Relatives's DNA is tested amid reports a boy has turned up who is the son of Colombian hostage Clara Rojas.