Re:India's living dead
by legutierr on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @09:08AM
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Most kidnappings are intra-familial, at least in the US—mostly related to child custody disputes. Are you saying that the police shouldn't get involved in those cases, either?
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No, I’m saying the police did look into it, as they should, and found that in this case it wasn’t a serious issue but just a stunt. If there had been any genuine intention to harm or detain the child then of course it should have been prosecuted, but it seems that there wasn’t.
Re:India's living dead
by ransom1538 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @09:55AM
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^ Sadly, kidnapping charges have huge consequences. They were designed to prevent a "kidnapping" in which a person tries to steal and keep a child. These laws were not designed to punish a parent returning a kid from a Yankees game late.
>They were designed to prevent a "kidnapping" in which a person tries to steal and keep a child
Aren't most of these kidnappings also intrafamilial? Even if you throw out the "parent returns a kid a bit late from an activity" cases, I think there are many more parents trying to take kids to another state to keep them full time despite a custody agreement otherwise than there are strangers just nabbing kids in parks or what have you.