BRIEFLY : ABDUCTION SUSPECT LOCATED VIA WEB TIP.VENTURA - A tip stemming from an Internet Web site displaying photos of missing children led FBI agents to arrest a Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. woman who they said abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point her toddler sons and fled to Utah. Dietricha Sweeney, 36, is accused of abducting ab·duct tr.v. ab·duct·ed, ab·duct·ing, ab·ducts 1. To carry off by force; kidnap. 2. Physiology To draw away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part or limb. her 4-year-old twin boys in October and is awaiting an extradition hearing after her arrest Thursday in Salt Lake City. Investigators with the Ventura County District Attorney's Office turned up leads that led them across the country, as well as to Canada and Mexico. In February, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private, non-profit organization established in the United States in 1984 under United States government mandate. called investigators with a lead that Sweeney was in Salt Lake City. Then last week, an individual spotted Sweeney's photo on the center's Web site and called the DA's Child Abduction Child abduction is the abduction or kidnapping of a child (or baby) by an older person. Several distinct forms of child abduction exist:
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Web site is at www.missingkids.org. - Daily News |
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