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Kidnapping: United States
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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara tells of the desperate attempts of the Mortaras to get their child back. The case drew in emperors and ambassadors, and Italian patriots seized on it as well, eager as they were to discredit the Papal States and to bring about the unification of Italy. Before the story ended, the Mortara family, the Papacy, and Italy would be changed forever.
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On the federal level, Congress passed the Lindbergh Act in 1932 to prohibit interstate kidnapping (48 Stat. 781 [codified at 18 U.S.C.A. § 1201 et seq.]). The Lindbergh Act was named for Charles A. Lindbergh, a celebrated aviator and Air Force colonel whose baby was kidnapped and killed in 1932. The act provides that if a victim is not released within twenty-four hours after being abducted, a court may presume that the victim was transported across state lines. This presumption may be rebutted with evidence to the contrary.
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"Sister Ortiz simulated the kidnapping, violated the Eighth Commandment against false witness, said the U.S. ambassador. A sadomasochistic lesbian nun, said a State Department official. A case of delicate nerves, said the Guatemalan Minister of Defense." -- from Espada's book "A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen" (W.W. Norton, $21.)
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The law of kidnapping is difficult to define with precision because it varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Most state and federal kidnapping statutes define the term kidnapping vaguely, and courts fill in the details. The federal kidnapping statute, for example, defines kidnapping in part as an offense wherein a person kidnaps another person (18 U.S.C.A. § 1201).
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Brick, who was convicted of kidnapping her husband's children when he took the kids out of state during the Christmas 2000 holidays. Less than a month later Froland-Kindt and her husband, John Kindt, were found in a disabled boat off the coast of North Carolina by the Coast Guard.
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During that year children became prominent targets for the kidnapping rage that ripped through the twin-island state of Trinidad and Tobago. Here’s a list of children’s abductions that occurred between January-April 2003 that were recorded in the Trinidad Guardian:
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