Abducted (Crime Documentary) | Real Stories 

I am heartbroken for Gosia. I wish someone would help her get her daughter back. She's basically being raised by strangers while the mother suffers.

The poor parents, the poor mother who lost her daughter at 3 months...so heartbreaking

My daughter was abducted in 1984 by her father she was 13 months......he took her to Greece...it took 10 years before we located them....it is a long story....when she had her first child in 2011 ....she realized how profound it was to become a mother and had to find me .....she found me through a website that we had created in hopes she would find me one day...we have been communicating for 8 years ...she still lives in Greece but would love to come to Her birth country Canada with her family....we are working on meeting one day soon.....I have two beautiful grandsons....

How selfish of them to keep that little girl in Libya while a civil war is going on 😡

Wait, the dad was imprisoned, the kid left in a foreign country with grandparents and STILL NOT BROUGHT HOME? Thats disgusting. Thats on the British government.

This is so sad...children are not to be fought over like a toy..poor child will be so traumatized

first time i've ever seen a father's point of view. interesting...

That poor guy not only loses his daughter but then has to pay 90k in legal costs possibly making him bankrupt. All because he lost in the high court fighting to see his daughter. This documentary is so powerful. Why does this happen in 2019. Highly disturbing.

If the other parent would have been violent or a threat to the well-being of the child, I can totally understand taking your child and run. But if this is not the case, how can you keep your child away from their own mother or father who love them and want to be there for them. I really believe this will backfire in the end and the child will resent the parent who kept them away from their other parent or sibling. Unbelievable and so heartbreaking to watch, there should be way more help for these people.

This is a dangerous trend. Kids are NOT a possession!

It’s heartwarming to see fathers who love their children when there are so many fathers who could care less about the children they brought into this world

In South Africa no parent may leave the the country with a child without documentation signed by the other parent...whether the parents are happily married or divorced,there must be documents signed before a commissioner of oaths presented at the airport.

Talia's mommy is so sad. Terrible!

Gośka just really breaks my heart ❤️ I feel for all these parents. She was soul wrenching...all that raw emotion.

This breaks my heart. People are disgusting.

This happened to my cousin. His daughter was taken from the US to China by her mother at 2 months old "just visiting family." She was homesick. They disappeared. He's suffered for years.

Talia’s father is an evil monster. My heart breaks for that poor woman 😔 get her baby back to her for Christ’s sake!

In the Netherlands, when you are travelling alone with your child, you need to carry an officially signed approvaldocument from the other parent, ortherwise you're not allowed to board a plane. Sadly of course they can't check the travelling by car, but at least it diminishes the childabductionratings.

The judge who sentenced him to 6.5 years had no vision. Instead of sentencing him to a finite time, he should have sentenced him to spend 10 days in prison for each day his family in Libya refuses to return the child to its mother.

Seeing the two sisters reunite is♥️🥺

I really pray that poor woman gets her little girl back .. I can't imagine the pain also I don't know since her ex is in prison that she can't just go take her baby!

the one with the polish woman is deep :c

This is a recount from a friend i had in college talk about his most dark, secretive experience of his life. Nobody believed his story in full, but he's glad he is still alive today. My friend was only 7 years old. He awoke bewildered and dizzy by himself in a clean, comfy, cozy room with teddy bears imprinted on peach walls in a bed plush with pillows and velvet blankets. Next to his bed was a tray with Oreo cookies, a big ham sandwich, and a glass of milk. The milk was still cold and the sandwich was tasty. He could hear children laughing distantly downstairs. When he finished his sandwich, a nice old woman with plumo features walks in and lovingly congratulates him for finishing his meal and gently takes the tray away and asks him to come downstairs to meet his friends. My friend goes downstairs and sees about 10 other children in front of a huge tv screen and were playing Super Mario Bros 3 on a Nintendo. Each kid had a tray of snacks and chocolate milk next to them as they gleefully played Nintendo. He was still pretty tired from the ordeal he experienced hours ago when he felt a hand with a cloth clamomped over his nose and mouth as his consciousness faded away. After about an hour, my friend started to let go of what happened in the morning and started getting into the fun atmosphere with his new buddies as the housemaid said it was time for dinner. There were 6 girls and 4 boys in total including himself. Dinner was a delicious-smelling plate of meat and soft veggies drenched in a brown sauce. He didn't know what it was, but everyone loved what they were eating. The kids talked about the games they played and asked my friend where he came from. They told him tomorrow they will watch movies and play nintendo all day and maybe go to the beach later. They were doing all the things my asian friend rarely got the privelage to partake under his stict parents. His anxiety quickly started melting away as he wolfed down the delicious food laid before him and listened to the excited chatter of the other children. It seemed everyone was so happy to be where they were. Maybe his abduction was really that bad. Maybe his parents knew about all this and that he was at summer camp or something because school was out for two weeks and it was early July. My friend enjoyed everyday of his life at this strange new home. It was more of a comfy mansion designed for children, it seemed. There were swings, slides, jungle gyms, and many ither recreational stuff you would see in parks. The ocean was calm and peaceful. The only thing that seemed to be of stark contrast to all this was that the entire property had a tall white wall surrounding it. The ocean area had two green fences on it's sides stretching a good distance into the ocean. It must've felt like an entire summer that he was there. Everyday involved nothing but fun activities, good food and snacks, and daily sleepovers with the other kids. More kids joined the ranks almost every day. There were abut 30 kids in total by the time he ended his story. Although newcomers came nearly daily, about half of that number of kids left the premise and never came back. Nobody knew where these kids took off to, but they just simply were gone when the kids gathered to have breakfast in the spacious kitchen area surrounded by ornate furnitures with strange frames of symbols on the walls. Other than the pictures on the walls, everything else in the mansion seemed like nothing out of the ordinary. The kids at night usually got together in a room under blankets with flashlights and told ghost stories. After his first night, my friend stayed in a huge room with 5 other kids in spacious bunk beds with frames shaped like the moon. Most of the stories were about the kids that were gone from the home. Everyone wondered where their new buddies went. Most of the kids thought they went back home, which further fueled their optimism that everything was fine and that this was a special treat from their parents. One night, my friend woke up in the middle of the night heard a child screaming from a distance. It wslas a blood curdling scream that ended in something slamming. Most likely the sound of a car door being shut. He thought for a moment, and decided yo shrug it off and go back to sleep. Maybe one of the kids had a nightmare. One night, someone turned on the lighrs in the middle of the night and gently told him to get dressed and come outside. My friend got dressed and followed a huge man dressed in a black suit downstairs and was led in front of what he remembered as a cadillac in front of the mansion. The mansion stood by itself on a cliff overlooking the ocean with no neighbors. When the door opened, there was a strange, creepy-looking old man in a dark brown suit and hat at the rear passenger seat. The man adoringly encouraged him to sit beside him. My friend got spooked at that point. In his mind, he wanted to know what's going on before he got in. The vibe was very disturbing. My friend reluctantly got un the car. The old man put his arm over my friends shoulder and kissed him on the right side of his head and kept caressing his head and shoulders. My friend said he was getting very nervous and anxious and wanted nothing more than to get away from this man. The only thing my friend remembers after this was that he awoke by himself naked in a forest somewhere in northern california. He didn't remember anything that happened after he got out of the vehicle. He had bruises and little bloody scars all over his body. Most notably his genitals. A group of surveyor happened to discover my friend early when it was still dark. One of the surveyors were frantically telling the police something while giving my friend a reassuring look every now and then while telling his story. My friend's devastated parents rushed up to hug him, crying. They lo a ded him in their car and they drove home. My friend says that his parents told him nothing other than the fact that he was abducted and missing for 3 months. They didn't tell him exactly what happened and who his abductors were. Whenever he asks, his parents would hush him up and angriliy tell him that it's over and he doesn't have to remember anything. It seems to me that my friend's parents, the surveyors that discovere him, were silenced from speaking out aganist what happened to him. Over 100,000 kids in the US alone go missing every year. Some, like my friend, are lucky enough to be found. Many are never seen again. My friend says he considers himself very lucky to be alive today and he's thankful that his parents never told him what happened. Maybe it was for the best that he didn't remember what happened to him to prevent any PTSD. I learned one thing from my friends story: Some people are completely exempt from the law no matter what they do.

I dont get why anyone is aloud to leave the country with a child unless the right documentation and if they do it illegally....they should be able to gef the children back!!!!!

This is so sad. Adults are so cruel and never stop to think what's best for the kids. It seriously messed them up. They have to know both parents to know who they are or they are only half a person. I never kept my 1st child from her father OR his family-they were half of her-part of her. I couldn't deny her that no matter what I thought personally about her father. His parents-were wonderful and I still have a close bond with them to this day. He passed a couple years ago.

Snatching a child that doesn't know you at all, out of their known family's safe haven and everything they know, even if they are your child, and you have the court on your side, is absolutely monstrous. I feel terrible for Crystal, she will be traumatized for life.

This is heartbreaking. I would lose my mind if my child was abducted even by the other parent. I wouldn't stop until I got her back that's for sure. Prayers for you all.

As someone with children & their father does not want a relationship with them I cannot understand what someone gets out of shutting the other parent out. A child deserves the right to both parents if it’s safe to do so & you cannot just erase a parent for whatever reason

no one asked crystal if she wanted to go...omg how harrowing for that child to be grabbed in the dark away from the people she loves and knows..poor kid

NOBODY ever wins in the end... Once a home is broken the child/children suffer in the END!

Goshia is so heartbreaking

Holding back tears while watching. It breaks my heart that a spouse has to abduct their child for personal reasons that doesn’t even include the child. Culture or divorce aside, we should learn to accept each other or each situation’s fate. Let’s think of the rights of our child not ours. I do hope the polish mother will meet her baby soon. I am a mother myself and seeing her fighting back the tears during the interview makes my heart bleed.

We need a no fly list for kids🤔❤

Its so sad.... these babies could have had both parents in their lives if it wasn’t for one selfish parent taking them away!!!!

Jesus Christ, I don't think my heart has ever thumped as hard as it did when they were grabbing Crystal. This is so evil, and they sad it right at the start, it's using the child as an object to punish the other party. Sick, sick people.

Omg it broke my heart watching this. I am so glad Craig got his daughter back and I cried when he finally got her. If only all dad's we're like him. You have 2 very beautiful daughters ❤️

Wow just wow 😮 Humans are a pure mix of demons and angels but the problem is the angels are outnumbered 😞

If one parent abducts a child back again, then the child is still lacking a parent. Not only that, the child is snatched out if the environment they got used to. OMG, what a mess...

And why does marta only want custody of crystal and not her other daughter?

To see Goshia pain is extremely sad.

Awww, did Crystal remember him right after she calmed down? She looks so happy to be with her daddy

How hard is it to try to talk to the mother of the abductor in Lybia, no chance...HER SON IS EVERYTHING, that is the culture there! The mum have no chance! Sad and bad!!!!!

I realise I sound like a jaded person when saying this and my heart breaks for these parents, but this is why I did NOT end up continuing my relationship with a man from the Middle East. This has been a very real problem for decades and will continue to be.

One thing I don’t understand: when the abducting parents show up to the airport with these children, without their legal guardian, how is there not some alert not to allow them to board a plane? It seems like when there’s a divorce where one or more of the partners is a foreign national, it would be very simple and sensible to put some sort of alert system in place to not allow a parent to abscond with a child they don’t have custody of, especially in this age of national security mania and no-fly lists. I really wish someone would enlighten me about this.

So the Polish mother who kidnapped her child has received multiple court orders to asking her to return the kid to the father. She refused and nothing happened to her. Damn justice system in Poland must be really really bad.

This is so sad

I just pray that these children will one day be able to access social media and will know the truth about how hard their parents fought for them. It matters.

And Talia's bereft mother - simply heartbreaking.

My heart breaks for Gosia 😢 not sure if it’s a possibility for her but at this point I’d have gone to a “child recovery” ..3 years is just too long… a child needs her mother

The mother who wrote that letter need get the guy who had saved crystal to do same for her. Same with the father who still don’t have their daughter.

I hope somebody who sees this will be able to help Talias Mum! I feel deeply sorry for her. And I would let the ex husband rot in prison until she gets her daughter back ! Girls, better think twice if you wanna have a child with a man from certain cultural backgrounds!!!

If I was Mr Khan I would refuse to pay the 30 grand. He is the custodial parent and his daughter should have been returned to him forthwith.

If my husband and I were to separate, I could never not allow him to see our daughter. She's his daughter too. She loves him very much and he feels the same for her. The only way I could keep a child from their father is if it was for the child's safety...like if he was abusive or something like that.

It’s super traumatic for the child so I’m split between him having a relationship with his child and his child being traumatized because all she’s ever known in life is now gonna change. But now seeing the end of the video she’s super happy realizing she’s with her daddy.

So sad, children are not possessions they deserve both parents. I can't imagine what they go through.

My child have been abducted on 29/08/2017 in Russia. I never had any private time again with my son.i never played with him alone, I never had any moment with him private, I am always victim of violence. I wish him health. He will understand...

This issue caused by not sharing custody and using the child for revenge

I am so tense waiting for Crystal and the grandparents to come back and I have looked at the comments and I know how it turns out. I cannot imagine how the dad is handling it.

There's a fine line between giving up and letting go. Sometimes one is forced to let go.

Children should never be a pawn this is horrible

so sad when this happens, my partner he never even got to see his baby the lady ran away just b4 the child was born, all because the nan {girls mum} never liked him. Its caused a never ending pain for my loving kind hubby. A truly NEVER ending source of heartbreak.

Anyone ever see the movie with Sally Field, “Not Without My Daughter”? It’s old but based on a true story.

These documentaries are amazing

Who’s cutting the onions?

My heart goes out to these families and the one's trying to help them

Her children are her life? Yeh ok.......sisters are so happy to be 2gether! All that matters

i feel gutted for those parents missing their babies.. its so sad.. Gotchia is so pittiful.. id like to know what happened with her and the other dad (omina's father)

This is heartbreaking, I am divorced and have children, I have never ever prevented their father contact, sadly by his choice he chose to chase other women rather than spend some quality time, let alone contribute one cent toward them.

I really hope the court will give the full custody of two girls two the girls father in my opinion. Not all mothers is angels .

That ittle girl must of been very unhappy with her mother ? 6hours and she is kissing her Daddy who she hasnt seen for 2years.....She looks so happy with her sister and Daddy....One story with a happy ending.....Very sad for any Mother/Father who have their child taken.....

Look at these heart-broken devastated parents, who can barely hold their tears in front of the camera. And then look at Madeline Mccains parents...

Having children with immigrants is a huge risk. When you split or if the other parent wants to go back home, nobody knows what can happen. I live in a 3rd word country and I would never have a child with an immigrant who has not saddled in my country. By saddle I mean having a good job or business things like that. People who don't have nothing to lose are capable of anything. Ps:In my country you can't take a child out of the country without the other parent's consent. I don't understand how those parents are pulling it off.

I would die if someone took my son he is 10 I would travel to the ends of the earth till I found him

they need to get an international private investigators

So touching

I’m so glad the father got Crystal back.

I was assaulted and kidnapped stabbed and jumped from a car going over 55mph to get away in 2016 by my ex boyfriend which left me permanently disabled. And I almost killed my self after this happened but then I met someone just 3 days before I planned on taking my own life and he was a great friend to me actually my only friend and still is my only friend . Now he’s my husband. ❤ He saved me

It's safer to date within your culture, same religion and raised in same country. With divorce over 50% it is too high a risk to have kids.

2:50 omg clean up your desktop ahhhh

What !!!!!! This is heartbreaking why would anyone do this 💔

Who abducts their own child to a country in war/civil war?! That person just sees their kids as property and not their children!

Omg how evil 💔 I would go to their house and bring all of my family and not leave that country until my baby was in my arms. Absolutely disgusting . That poor women writing a letter to her mother in law that she should not have too, she is the mother not the gran. Horrific !

Awful parent being selfish and stupid to another parent😞, only the children suffer, from not knowing the other parent.👎👎👎

Just heartbreaking. This is so very sad.

This is just heartbreaking. The children, the parents, the families, nobody really “wins” in the end. Especially the children. I can understand a parent wanting to protect their child if the other parent is abusive, but with no proof, the last thing you should be doing is abducting your own child and hiding them in another country, away from everything familiar to them and away from everyone they know and love. That’s abuse in and of itself, and is no better than what you claim to be protecting them from. Nothing good comes from child abduction. A child doesn’t deserve to live a hidden life of fear and lies, forced to be separated from one of their parents. That is no life for a child. The only thing this comes down to is selfishness on the abductor’s part. If you decide to have a child with someone, you have to accept the fact that you will be closely connected to that person for as long as you or or child is alive, even if you decide to end your romantic relationship with them. In the case of abuse, there are protocols that need to be followed to ensure you obtain the proper evidence needed to keep your child safe and secure. *Never* take the law into your own hands. If you’re truly trying to protect your child from abuse, you need to think about the fact that you can’t protect your child when you yourself end up in a prison cell. Your child deserves so much better than that. Every child deserves to have their mother and father in their lives, as long as both parents are capable and willing to love and care for that child. As a parent, it doesn’t matter what your feelings are about your ex. They may not have been a good romantic partner to you, but that doesn’t automatically make them an unfit parent. So many of the worlds biggest problems would be solved if adults just started acting like adults. A child is not an object you possess. They should never be tossed around and used as leverage between feuding parents in a tug of war, like a piece of meat in a dog fight. It is absolutely infuriating that parents, *grown adults,* behave this way. Children always come first. *Always.* There are no excuses for child abduction. God bless those precious babies, as well as the parents they were taken from. I also pray for the other family members caught up in the cross hairs. There’s nothing easy about a situation as complex as this. Ultimately, the full blame should be placed on the abductor. While I don’t necessarily agree with the other family members assisting in the abduction and hiding of the child, we also have no idea what they have been told by the abductor. They may not even realize the gravity of the situation at hand, and probably feel that they are doing what is best, based on the information/lies they are being fed. The screams of the grandmother when Crystal was rescued said it all. That was chilling. And again, I reiterate that *nothing* good could ever come of this. Nothing but pain and heartache for everyone involved. I’m glad that there are people like the man in this video who are fighting on the front lines to physically be the one to bring these kids back home. The fact that he pled guilty and spent 10 weeks in prison, just to immediately return back to the same line of work just tells you how genuinely passionate he is about it. God bless him, as well as the other organizations fighting to reunite these children and bring them back home. They are the real heroes.💕

The sadest thing i ever saw

Don’t have a child with some if you plan to leave the country. If you have a child, you owe it to that child to stay close even if you are not with the other parent. Each parent should stay close together while apart because the child deserves that. Don’t take the relationship between either parent away from a child. If you are not someone strong enough to do that, don’t have any children at all. In the end, that poor baby is the one that will be most hurt and that hurt will come back to bite when they’re older. Somehow, someway. If you love your child, find enough love in your heart to make sure they are able to know both parents.

Such a sad situation either way! Heart wrenching!

Are there any updates on these stories?

My heart is crying

thank you for showing the fathers side. fathers are scrutinized by media and the general consensus is that moms can take better care. thats not true. i have so much respect for these people, and especially the fathers in this situation that dont get the help they deserve just because they're men.

What gets me is why the mother of crystal and her sister. Why is the mother only fighting for crystal and not the other daughter?

desktop organization -10/10

It's sad that these parental abductors aren't thinking how their actions can traumatize their child. If they truly cared, they wouldn't put their child through such stress. Even though I understand why he did it, it still breaks my heart.

This is why I’m weary of dating foreigners

How did the mom of3month old get picture of her standing and sitting up? So confused

another heartbreak. how traumatic for the kids

I am a family lawyer who sees a lot of this every single day. It's sad that when a couple disagree or separate, the greatest victims are the children. 😥 I have one where when the father was given custody, he sexually assaulted the child. #Horrible

I totally understand!🙏🏼 it take alot of courage

My baby daddy is Brit, he dint ever wanna see our girl being born....so i hope he doesn't one day come and kidnap my little one here in the US.