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DA Child Abduction Unit Reunites Mother with Child Taken to Afghanistan

August 11, 2026

When most people think of child abduction, they picture a stranger. But the reality is that 98% of child abductions nationwide—and 99% in California over the past decade—are committed by a parent.

Watch how the San Diego County District Attorney’s Child Abduction Unit overcame extraordinary international challenges to reunite a young boy with his mother after he was taken to Afghanistan for nearly two years. Watch the video below.

 

 

 

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