Submitted on Thursday 10th October 2019
Published on Monday 14th October 2019
Current status: Closed
Closed: Wednesday 6th November 2019
Signatures: 111
Amend Child Abduction Act to criminalise failure to return a child to UK.
A court's permission for a parent to take a child out of the UK facilitates child abduction. Case law states that failure to return a child to the UK is not a crime. This is not in the true spirit of the Child Abduction Act. Failure to return a child should be treated the same as taking them away.
Case law clearly states that a criminal offence has not taken place were a child is taken out of the UK with the Courts permission and not returned. This is clearly a loophole, which is having a devastating impact on parents in the UK who suffer parental child abduction. The loophole in the child abduction act needs closing.
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