Missing girl found 6 years after disappearance l GMA
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Kayla Unbehaun, who had been missing since 2017, was featured in Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries” and was recognized by a viewer in North Carolina.
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This is why it's important to continue to air these missing persons shows. You just never know! Grateful Kayla has been found alive.
@@mistyriver1839 Why didn't she get shared custody then? And why would an illegal immigrant want to kidnap anybody? Thought that was a weird example...
@@mistyriver1839 you are so racist!!
@@mistyriver1839 you are reported for being a racist
@@mistyriver1839mother that did not have the legal rights to do that and probably for good reasons if she ended up kidnapping her child instead of fight for custody
@@mistyriver1839 if her mother wanted to “love and care for her🥺” then she would fight for custody instead of kidnapping her. How are you gonna say she was just trying to be a mother? Honestly concerning.
I wanna hear ALL sides of this story. Mom's version, Dad's version, and Kayla's version.
Kayla's version is whatever her mom has brainwashed her to think and believe these 6 years. Mom is a criminal who ruined her daughters life and had 6 years to explain herself and never did so she has no right now.
Moms a dirtbag kidnapper. The end
❤ 🙏
Do you always want to listen to the criminals side of story? Someone who is in FBI's wanted list for kidnap?
Cool, keep the same energy when a guy is wanted for child molestation. Let's hear "his side of story". Let's hear the sides of stories of all criminals shall we. Just .... Hear them out. Right?
@@basicLife7721obviously custody wasn't taken away from her completely. She was WITH her mother and the dad was scheduled to pick her up when they disappeared.
You men are terrible with your presumptions.🙄
Tough for this girl to navigate all these emotions. I hope she remembers her dad and her mom did not tell her bad things about her dad. I hope they can heal their relationship.
Also, how do we knew the dad wasn't doing bad things and that's why the mom took her away. It doesn't make it ok, but we don't know either person to make an assumption
@@sarahlee988 So her kidnapping her and losing custody prior is not valid enough evidence for you that the mother was wrong and had bad intentions?? You ignore all that and give her the benefit of the doubt while questioning the father based off of no evidence? WOW
@𝔼𝕝𝕚𝕫𝕒 Beth💕 it most certainly is not enough. I'm glad that you haven't been exposed to the hard truth of the justice system not always serving the correct justice. I have seen battered women have wealthy ex husband's with good lawyers able to get full custody, making the woman look like the bad one, especially as battered women often don't have much evidence as they always hid it. So no, court orders mean nothing for what the truth actually could be.
She was 9 years old, not a baby or toddler, I seriously doubt she has forgotten her father......let's not be unnecessarily dramatic Most people have childhood memories that go back further than when they were 9 years old......I hope that both parents can find a way to be in their daughter's life and be civil for the daughter's sake.....
@@Naturefan354 Surely you know that parents can make false accusations against one another in custody cases......especially if they are narcissists.......They let her out on bail so they don't think she will flee or kidnap her child again.....Sarah is actually right.....we don't know enough to pick sides here.....
👏💯🏆 To the store employee who recognized the girl and contacted authorities. Glad she was reunited with her father.
What if her mother took her from her father because she found out her father was behaving inappropriately around her? We don't know all the details. The guy who recognized her needs to stop watching Netflix and pick up a book. She was obviously content with her life, otherwise she would have reached out to authorities or her father beforehand.
@@RobbieStacks90 The father had custody of the girl. Usually when they seize and run they're looking to avoid a trial.
@@RobbieStacks90
You’re here defending the criminal activity and abduction of a child based strictly on your own imagination.
@@moonshoes11That's not abduction if it's your child.
@@Ryan-mf2rg
Actually, it is when you’ve lost custody.
There was a case similar to this with a French family. Father raped the daughter. Mother and daughter were not believed by authorities and mother fled to Italy for 20 years to keep her child safe. I am always questioning everything since I heard of this case, so do I here, especially because the girl is old enough now to call her dad/police/etc.….we do not know everything and sometimes a mother is in need of drastic actions.
Hey, I know you mean well but it's insane to say questionable things about the father with 0 evidence
Ese es el problema, generalizar. Todos los casos son diferentes y son estudiados, aunque sabemos que a veces las autoridades se equivocan. Sigue siendo una acusación grave, aunque sabemos que es una posibilidad, hay cientos de otras. También hay madres que se creen con el derecho de llevarse a su hijo lejos del padre por venganza.
@@Barrosgestioninmobiliariaexactly…the number one thing a parent will do in a custody battle over young children is to accuse the other spouse of s*xual abuse. Because it can be hard to disprove.And there are plenty of cases where the child can be made to believe it happened because the parent convinced them it did.
@@chillarypuff Yet I don't see you pointing out to the people who are trashing the mother that it's insane to say questionable things about her with 0 evidence.
@@thaismatsumoto you’re literally proving ops point about not being believed. Unfortunately familial incest isn’t as far fetched as some may think and SA cases have some of the lowest conviction rates even with substantial evidence.
If a teen didn't want to look for the parent who had custody- shouldn't we hear the least her side of story. I mean 9 yo is pretty coherent to let someone know they have been abducted let alone 10 -15 yo...
I can’t yet rejoice more details to the story have to come out. why did the mother feel like she had to take the child away? How does the child feel about going to live with their father now? etc
The mother had only selfish and self serving reasons to rob her daughter of everyone and everything around her she had ever known.
@@Naturefan354 Do you know her personally? and I don’t ask this to be snooty. I’m honestly curious.
The mother is a criminal.
Women have plenty of reasons to want to protect their daughters from their fathers, and most of them never do. Kudos to this woman for having the courage and strength of her maternal instinct.
@@EpiphanyWyrdWitch
She lost custody for a reason. She repeated violated the law.
She is a criminal who denied her daughter a relationship with her father.
Now, she will probably be going to jail. Yay mom.
I just wonder if the girl herself is glad. Was she happy in NC with her Mom ? Hopefully she will have a say in her future.
So nice this little girl was found! I hope the girl gets the mental health care she’ll probably need! 😢
Was she harmed by her mother ?
We'll hear about her demise by the hands of her dad next 🫤
Why does she need to labelled mentally ill and shrinked for growing up with her mother instead of her father?
@@naturalkinks8683 men hater inbound
@@EpiphanyWyrdWitchBecause women are hormonal and emotional quite often which is why mentally ill was brought up. Men/Fathers are 100% necessary in order for a child to grow up stable.
same thing happened to me. returned to my dad after 6 years when i was 11. dad never pressed charges against my mom.
Was that hard to go live with your dad after you hadn’t seen him for so long?! Or was that more ideal for you?
He probably didn’t look too hard for you tho🤔
@@esils really dude?
@@esils isn’t kindergarten still in session.
@@IMHip2 the video said it was uncommon for the parent to not be detected for so long…plus he said. The dad never pressed charges….where dey do dat at?👀 dad was probably relieved to not be paying child support during that time 🤔
Amazing. I am so glad that she was found safe. Awesome work from the employee who recognized her.
She was safe, I just hope she is safe now.
Real loser of this story is the daughter, who is forced to choose between her mum and dad. Heart breaking
True. It’s a shame what the child feels is often not considered. I hope eventually there’s a peaceful resolution with all involved parties and this child goes on to live a fulfilled life loving both.
15 years old is damn near grown now days im wondering if shes happy to be with her dad or is she angry that they took her from her mom
I can’t pick a side because I don’t know the situation in full. I don’t have any details other than the mother being deemed a kidnapper of her own child. No matter the circumstances I hope all ends well for all involved and I feel mostly for that innocent child who is torn between her parents. Whatever the truth maybe in this situation I hope it comes to light. Best of luck kiddo hope for you nothing but happiness.
The government stole the child from beautiful North Carolina and put her in nasty Illinois. I bet she misses her friends, Mother, and the beautiful beaches of North Carolina. Maybe the Father should grow a brain and move to gorgeous North Carolina asap or better yet maybe she should have stated with the Mother.
We both know what side you’d pick if it was the father who got deemed the kidnapper.
@@albertbarese4170 My parents divorced when I was a kid and my Father Won custody because they allowed the children to decide who they wanted to be with. When did the laws change? Why is the child no longer allowed to make that decision? When I was in court they asked us who we wanted to be with.
And there is a part of the issue in the US, you don't need to pick a side for everything!
@@joejoewilson5130 If a parent is deemed unfit, they won’t let the child choose to stay with them. You’re assuming the mom was fit to get custody.
Well,i'm afraid her father is by now a stranger after 6 years of absence .Kids grow attached to the parent they grew up with.
That depends on parenting style and the attachment style the kid develops as a result. If a parent is an abusive authoritarian parent a kid might become detached from said parent even in their presence.
She was 9. Hopefully, she remembers him well.
A lot of people meet parents for the first time later in life and form a bond. It may never be the same but it doesnt mean they can't form a loving attachment.
Six years really isn't that long, and it's not like she was a baby when she was taken.
@@Leelz247 I couldn't,my biological father is like a stranger for me,while the one who raised me was the real parent.
These missing children cases are so different then if the child was abducted by a stranger the child probably doesn't even know she was kidnapped I'm sure it's all very complicated poor kid she's going to have to deal with all of this it's not fair for her
Agree, when a father o mother active the amber alert ,I dont pay to much attention.
The world is a terrible place. If the girl was returned safely and in good condition, then I assume she was being taken care of. My question is why the mother felt the need to take her and run and keep it going for six years.
The real question is why is this woman on bond for KIDNAPPING her daughter. It's a blessing that she was taken care of.
It could be a multitude of reasons and not every one of them paints her as a decent person or mother. She could be narcissistic, she could have mental issues, she may not believe the father should have custody. It still doesn’t justify kidnapping
@@honestreflections5541 or....it could be the father is narcissistic and all the other things you accuse the mother of. Who knows.
@@pigeonlove Exactly so i’m not going to assume the woman who kidnapped her child has a justified reason because we just don’t know
Given the mother LOST custody of her daughter, and took her anyway IS KIDNAPPING.
Well, the good thing is she's alive and healthy all these years. That police dept. is not good at tracing missing children. 🤭
Idk seems weird that a 15 year old wouldnt have sought contact with the father if she wanted to be with him, weird that there isn't a statement from her but the prevailing attitude in the US is that children aren't people, merely extensions of their parents or legal guardians, so that's probably why they thought having her opinion before airing a story about specifically her was clearly, to them, just totally unimportant.
I would like to know, to be told here, why did the mother didapeared with her? Cause it's not clear that being just with her mother was worse than being just with her father
If the mother had a reason for keeping her daughter away and safe, there should be a full investigation..
glad to hear she’s ok and reunited with her dad ❤️
She was found… with her mom… (I know she lost costudy and all but..)
There’s just so much question about it.. I want to know the kid’s side.. 💔
Mom has to give birth to her kid, and then give it to the dad? That's tragic. Mom's are usually the most sacrificial.
The child was returned safely and in good condition? Sounds like the mom took great care of her.
She took care of everything except her right to know her dad who loves her I guess. That's a big flop.
@@leilaniz5909 I agree with that 100% Just questioning why she wasn't given full custody considering she seems to have taken the child's care seriously. Maybe she was a mental case. Who knows. Curious to find out
@@GameChanger597 taken child care seriously, except for being wanted by the police and denying the fathers right to see his daughter.
@@GameChanger597she seems to be fine not she is. The girls been missing for 6 years. in 6 years you can become used to abuse so you wouldn’t show any signs. Genuinely one of the worst takes I’ve seen in this comment section. Takes like this are why children who are abused pass through the net in schools and such because idiot people like you think you can look at a child an know what’s going on
It makes you wonder why she didn’t get custody if she took care of her. Anyway, just glad she’s safe. It’s great that her dad gets to reconnect as well. Could have turned out differently.
there's more to this story and i don't believe the dad is innocent.
Until I hear otherwise, I'm with the mother. Imagine having to run away and hide with your own daughter. So sad.
I understand that we have to follow the law, but I really want to see an interview withthe mother
Omg, so happy to hear she’s been reunited with her father! ❤
I hate how they call it "kidnapping" when she was literally with her own biological mother. It's not like the mother actually harmed the child in any way. Messed up wording.
Her mother didn't have custody.
@@jeffw1267 I'm aware. My point still stands. It's the woman that birthed her. The kid is literally a part of that woman. I never underestimate the amount of care a mother has for her kid. This is why I want the full story, each parent's side as well as the kid's.
@Mark Guerrero Firstly, I hate that they use the term "kidnap". It's the parents that literally birthed that child. And yes I'd say the same if the father "took away" his kid. The dad would have done it for a reason, and if the dad took proper care of the kid for the 6 whole years, I'd have no problem with it. It's the same for this situation. If the mom didn't harm the kid, I'd still like to hear her side of the story and her reasons for what she did. Does she have a mental illness? Is she a druggie? Is she afraid of the father's capabilities in taking care of their kid? etc. It's still sad that the kid lost 6 years with her dad, but again, i wanna know the whole story.
The pain that dad felt.. I'm terrified of this happening with my youngest. So glad she was returned home safely!
She wasn't missing... She was with her mom.
There are always 2 sides to every story
There are always 3 sides to every story. His version, her version and the truth.
Okay so the store owner also personally had a connection with Kayla, that makes sense. I was over here trying to wrap my head around how someone could have recognized her from the 2 second photo that was displayed in the credits of the show!
What was the backstory?. Was the mother being unfairly treated in a custody battle?!
@@MarkTheMovieMan100 depends on whether the kid was abducted or not. There is no backstory so it's implied she was wrong end of story. Was the kid better off because she was with her mother. Was the mother the abusive one or the father or both?!. Maybe the kid would be better off without either parent.
Dude the mother is NEVER EVER treated unfairly in custody battles. It’s the fathers who continuously get the short end of the stick (even when they try). its insane that you actually said that. The mother IS ALWAYS FAVORED!
@@sarahko1014 no back story.
Something fishy here, she was with her mother not a stranger and she was found ok after 6 years . We need to know both sides of the story! feel bad for the little girl to start a new life so young .
why are people defending the mother? clearly she didn’t have custody for a reason
Ask them....
Because they don't want to hold a woman accountable and they're mostly trolling.
Because the courts don’t care for woman…. More men get custody even when they have all the proof of the father not being so nice..
She gave birth to the child .
It could be simple because the father could afford better lawyers , why he had custody.
No offense, but how do we know the mom and daughter didn’t run away from a bad situation where the system failed them? It’s not an uncommon story. If she wasn’t trying to run away from her mom to get back to her father or let police know she’d been kidnapped, for all we know the mother isn’t the bad guy here. Now, I’m not saying she’s not either. But since idk the details, I’ll wait til the story unfolds before I assume anything, personally. Regardless, this could be a very difficult transition for her. Or maybe she feels saved. Idk. I’m sure she’s gonna be confused.
How do we know the mother wasn't abusive?
It is very common for family members to kidnap. When a stranger kidnaps a child, I don't see you saying the same.
@@adamoneil5317OP says he/she doesnot know so will wait to get more details, not assupmtion first.
@@isarainie4ever OP was assuming the mother and daughter ran away from the father. Don't pretend it was me assuming anything. The people who handle this case knows more than any of us so let's hope they made the right decision.
if it was the father who kidnapped his daughter, you wouldnt be asking this question
But does she want to be reunited with her dad?
This is something A.I. could help with. Showing what someone could/would look like after aging a few years.
I will reserve judgment until I hear ALL sides of the story. Reminds me of the Netflix series 'Maid' about abused women. There are people out there that have a sort of underground railroad to help women escape and that could very well be the system she used.
Im so impressed on how she was able to remain undetected for so long…she needs to write a book 🤔
she must have had help
There are kidnapped children everywhere, authorities aren't looking for them day to day they only find out when a citizen brings it to their attention or something happens. Imagine how many people they passed, cops and nobody recognized them. Someone was paying attention, thankfully.
@@EW-uw7dg but if you kidnap….that probably means other family that you like will never be able to reach you…..does the child ever go to school? What if the child says something to the new teacher. A lot of things have to go right for an older child to not be detected in public for so long.
@@esils She may have got a phone in a different name, idk I hope if someone did help her that they know the father can sue them and they can face charges as well. She may have homeschooled the girl, she may have threatened her not to tell or else. School's don't really pay attention either, even when kids are crying out for help. These kid's are sometimes threatened, definitely controlled and guarded. I'm glad it's over, she can get back to a normal life, get counseling and live her life. That's a lot of pressure on a little kid.
I love to read it
Um… I wanna hear the moms and Kayla’s version. Kayla is a teenager. Nothing stated she was harmed or abused by the mom. Maybe she wanted or still wants her mom. That being said I wanna hear all sides of this story before I make a definite judgement. No one knows the situation. I’ve ACTUALLY seen cases where a father had “kidnap” their kid because of a mother that constantly beat their kid but the father had a past with the law when he was much younger, so the justice system by default paint him as the bad guy.
There was also a famous case that made national news years ago of the grandparents that “kidnapped” their grandson from a druggy abusive parents that made their child do something type of drug. But they were gonna give the kid up to the system instead of the grandparents. So they had no choice but to take their grandkid. And the kid turned well, graduated high school, had a nice girlfriend and everything.
So you NEVER know what’s truly is behind closed doors to everyone quickly painting the mother as the bad guy.
"I'm so glad she's home." What??? She WAS home before.
Who lobotomized you?
So glad they found the child, this Mom lost custody for a good reason. It’s hard for a Mom to lose custody, this has to be in the best interest of the child.
People are gonna disagree with me but for the love of God she wasn't abducted, she was with her mother.
Flip the gender roles and you wouldn't be saying that.
@@WeedShaggy I feel like if she was with either of her biological parents mother or father it's not being abducted, but either way I'm just glad the little girl was found unharmed.
This makes me terrified to have a child with anyone.
Dad looks like a creep. If the girl was in danger show the proof. 🤷🏿
The emmanence from his face is a red flag.
She had 6 years to produce evidence and never did. And the mother looks like she crawled from a dumpster 😂
bruh you’re judging waaaay too much off of a couple photos, not everyone’s photogenic. also if i were to judge a book by its cover like you, the mom looked absolutely crazy in the recent photo of her they showed.
@@hauweii The words bruh and bro are so overrated. Gtfoh 🥴
What a shame! Stealing a child from her mother is a “Right” thing ?
Yeah and now that the girl is found you arrested the mother and let her out on bond....GREAT JOB!!!!
Its like the judge who released the kidnapper was reading the insane misandrist comments here, supporting the criminal over the innocent custodial dad. American woke children UA-cam manhating keyboard warriors are literally comical. Though insane, they’re funny.
Can we just let the little girl to decide who she wants to be with?
I feel for the mother. I am African and my mother also "abducted" me but it was the best crime she ever committed. The girl is healthy and well. I am grateful for it. American Law sucks, you need to hear from both sides before stepping in. I stand with the mother.
i’m sure you’d feel very different if you were the other parent in the situation. Worried sick every night for years that your child may be dead or in danger..
Its not the American law that is the problem. Its the people , like this mom who think they are ABOVE the law. You must bear the consequences of your selfish actions (as a result, so does the child unfortunately) but Like I said, if you were on the other end of the spectrum you would be devastated if your spouse did this.
I want to hear the daughters side in the story. Because obviously the child is OK. So was this just a Court issue or was her mother truly dangerous? Because maybe she was trying to protect her child from the father. But who knows. Family drama. 🤦🏽♀️
Her mother is selfish
This case is not black and white and not just NEWS FODDER!!!! I hope they treat both the child and the mother with compassion and support.
What does that do to Kayla to rip her away from her mother after 6 years.
Divorce is terrible. Children will live in confusion and fear only.
That would be so sad if Ryan the dad was an abuser. Sometimes parents are truly protecting.
I feel sorry for this poor girl it’s probably very confusing for her. Many kids who are abducted by a parent have no idea they’re a missing person. So first she doesn’t get to see Dad anymore and doesn’t know why, now she’ll probably not get to see Mom anymore and won’t know why. And one day when she’s older will have to hear the whole story.
She is too old for your scenario, she knew what was happening and was a participant OR SHE WOULD HAVE ALLERTED SOMEONE FOR HELP.
how can a mom abduct her own child? Child was returned "in good condition" what condition did they expect? This world is crazy.
And now the father has to deprogram Kayla from all the lies she doubtless heard about daddy
Sometimes the courts don't give custody to the right parent and really bad things happen. Hopefully this isn't one of those times...
There's missing persons who have gone well over six years without ever having been seen infact some persons were reunited with their loved ones after being missing for forty years.This is most certainly not uncommon 😃
The girl obviously wasn't in danger. She will soon be of age to choose which one to live with.
If she’s healthy and in good condition - it’s obvious Mom took care of her child. Pity! She Lilly felt like she had no choice.
At 15, who would she like to live with mom are dad. She probably missed her dad, but now she’s missing her mom after all these years together. It’s all about the child. Make sure she is happy and Safe.🙏🙏
This sounds good and all but this happened to my best friend and it was the worst time of her and her sisters life. Their mom who they lived with their whole life was put in jail and they were sent to live with a dad they didn’t like. Her sister moved out of his house as soon as she turned 18 and my best friend ended up running away at 16. They both moved back in with their mom once she was released from jail. To this day they still hate their dad. I get it’s wrong to take the kids away from the dad like that but you don’t know the situation On why she left in the first place and to send this girl back to live with a dad she barely knows is sad.
Blame these mothers for ruining their children's lives. BTW why does your friend hate her dad??
Parental alienation perpetrated by the mother would be my guess. Heavy negativity against the father by the mother
@@1515cando Yes I already knew the answer but I was waiting to see if her friend hated him for something other than what her mom planted in her head.
@@Naturefan354 because he’s abusive…which is why their mom took them and left. And he was abusive to them when they got sent back to live with him. Which is why they left as soon as they could.
@@1515cando wrong…there’s many reasons why women take their kids and leave. The male being abusive is one reason.
Look at the case with Grant Solomon! Horrific! They let the mother out on bond for kidnapping her child for 6 years. She can't be too bad of a person if she is out right now. Maybe she was trying to protect her.
F*** everything about any parent that does this unless the spouse is abusing the child in objective terms
I don’t think I’ll ever understand these “parent abducting their own child” shenanigans. In the end, that child is with one of the parents. Who are we, the outsiders, to judge if the child should stay with which parent. Maybe the one trying to find the child is insane and the one who ran away with the child is trying to protect the kid from that parent…
I've been trying to find any evidence that her mom was a bad person. There is none. All I can see is that her dad spent the last 6 years getting on these true crime shows smack talking his daughter's mom.
If you are trying to protect your child you go to the police, you don't hide from the police and kidnap your own child. Legally if my husband travels alone with our kids, he could be asked if I know where they are going, same if i travelled alone with my kids. One parent cannot decide to take the child away and go off grid. if one parent thinks the other is dangerous, they cannot just take justice into their own hands. There are laws for a reason. It's heartbreaking how many parents haven't seen their child in years because one parent just rashly decides to abduct their own child. And yes it is abduction because you have them with you but you still take them from the other parent. It is still a crime.
yeah im wondering about the details too...hopefully she was well taken care of?
@@surlespasdondine I see these cases as a “family business” because all the parties involved are part of the same family. No one outside of the family is “hurt” so they just gotta learn to deal with this on their own.
@@MarkTheMovieMan100 It’s not an excuse, it’s my point of view which applies to both the father and the mother.
This happen to me when I was 8 years old my mom took me and my brother but my dad never called police. And after a few years she couldn’t take care of us so she called him and he came and picked us up 3 states away
The mother loves her daughter despite what the courts says
What a crazy world we live in . Imagine birthing a child and the mother of the child is deemed a kidnapper. I understand the reasons behind it , but it’s just crazy to think about it.
Sometimes words don't really cover the story. When you hear kidnapping and children you think about pedofiles and other horrible things. Concidering the girl was in good condition and it was her mother I have the idea that that is not the case here but what do we know from these three minutes.
There are hundreds of thousands of kids who are kidnapped and taken care until found, it doesn’t make it right. If the employee never recognized her, NOBODY would know if she’s alive or not, let alone is good condition. It’s selfish and suspicious that you take off with the child-- with the intention of hiding her from loved ones for the rest of their lives.
@@sarahko1014 That is a hard judgement against the mother. Out of this post we don't know the story behind this. I do know one thing though, nothing worse for a mother then to get restrictions in the love for or the ability to see your child.
The mother took the child and went on the run for six years!...."she's out on bond..."
What crime did she commit besides raising the daughter she birthed?
I wonder about the different degrees of impact this has on the girls mental well being. Now she is suddenly being pulled from her mom and placed in care of her father. She may want to continue living with her mother. Either way I know it's the girl that loses out here unless the mother was an awful mother.
This basically happened to me - except my mom found out where me and my siblings were much earlier on. Due to both parents technically not having custody it took years in the legal system to get us back to my mom’s state. We were well taken care of and going to school and had assistance. At the time I hated both of my parents for even getting to the point where something like that could happen. But it shaped me into the person I am today and I just try to see the positives in it. All my siblings are ok and maybe surprisingly, we all have good relationships with our parents today. I hope this young girl can also keep a positive outlook too
Kidnap your own children. . . What happened to parental rights? If she was unharmed, not abused and safe what's the problem?
I am assuming that both parents would have rights and shouldnt take the choice away from the other etc.
Maybe the mother had a good reason for escaping the father?
No way she had good intentions.
@@Naturefan354 Yes if he was abusing her. My mom took us into hiding due to the abuse that went on back at home.
Agreed with no good intentions. If you’re escaping someone for a reason like that you would be looking for help from other people. She didn’t have custody, that says a lot. And if you these things happen every day everywhere and it’s very very rare that someone is doing this with good intentions. It’s almost always bad and doesn’t usually turn out nicely like this
@@SugarMollyHazel Great so her solution was to kidnap their child from everyone and everything she has ever known instead of just fighting to protect her? Because as far as I've read the mother never once accused him or anyone he knows of SA their daughter and has never produced one shred of evidence. The fact that she didn't even have custody when she was taken speaks volumes.
Poor kid. Imagine this must be confusing for her. Dad has missed so much. Hope the child was always safe.
I hope she didn't run away for a reason away from the father... that poor girl either way- first being taken away, and then probably not being aware/remembering her life beforehand and thrown back in it with a man she probably doesn't feel like she knows or maybe even thought was dead. I hope she's okay.
That gives me hope
was your child taken too?
@@rachealfaucher4520 no. Nothing like that it gives me hope for the families who are still looking for their loved ones.
People are amazing when they recognize kids off of those shows. Great job America. 😊
y’all saying glad she’s home but what if she loved being with her mom? now she has added trauma of thinking that her mom is in jail because of her.
and what if she hated those 6 years?
think about all the possibilities, darling. ALL of them.
That is going to be very hard for the 15 year-old to lose her mother.
In Japan, this is totally legal to take one’s blood child from the other parent in divorce. Custody is granted to the person who the child is living with at the time, but if the other parent decides to take the kids and go live with them after just getting a bite of ice cream, it’s legal. I have to wonder why the daughter didn’t reach out. It leads me to believe that she wanted to be with her mother over her father, regardless of what the courts said. Why does nobody consider what the girl wants? She’s actually old enough to now. I don’t think the mother should be penalized because I think there’s more to the situation than is being told probably because the father is a very rich narcissist. Who could potentially be abusive behind closed doors. She could have said something, but she didn’t. She was keeping it a secret with her mother.
I mean, why does nobody else see that now she absolutely has no other parental figure, because HE took that away from her because he LOVES her so much. Because he’s the biggest fxxking victim on this planet. Narcissists. Rich narcissists. Praying for that girl. She needs it.
Lol you are insane. Seek help😅
Can't really say it was an abduction since it is just a family legal situation. Divorce or marriage is what I blame.
She was 15 years old. If she wanted to see her dad , she would have said something herself. Just because he found her doesnt mean she is safe and sound. I feel bad for her and her mother. Their is a big reason she didnt want to be with her dad.
So great Kayla had been found...
All I can think about is the story of the man who claimed the mom was unfit, violently mentally ill and won custody. The woman wasn't. The daughter attested to the fact after being found in Australia? I wouldn't assume that the mother is unfit or that the dad should have custody. I'd have to hear form the daughter not either of the parents. Blessing to the child that is uprooted once again.
She was with her mother like she was supposed to be! You humans really have issues! So sick of this country
At least justice for the girl and the father! A truly God's blessing!
To lose six years of your child’s life, unthinkable. I hope they can pick up where they left off.
You can NOT kidnap your own child, the charge should be contempt of court. Nothing else.
The most important thing is that she feels safe and secure where she is now.
If the child lived openly, went to school, received the medical check-up that all children receive, it is strange if you can stay hidden.
Then you can really strongly question the authorities.
Was the child hidden and without contact with the outside world or school. Yes, then you can understand that it took time to solve the case.
How can you kidnap your own child
So happy for this father.
Sometime its hard for the kids when their parents divorced or separated... they didn't know its hurting their children.
Love seeing the walsh kids carrying on their dads legacy with the great work
6 years of hell for the Dad not knowing where she was or if she was even ok.
My parents were divorced, and my mom got custody of us 4-boys. Once in a while, my Dad would visit and bring food or whatnot and just catch up.
One night He invited us to go to a theme park, and at the end of the night my Dad wanted to take my little brother (6yr old) to his place because he missed him so much but I was instructed by our mom to never leave my little brother to him.
It was heartbreaking for me to tell my own dad that he can't take his own son home, his own flesh and blood.
What was the reason your mother got sole custody?
The fact that your dad was only focused on one kid is a huge red flag....