[citation needed] In 2010, the US Department of Justice reported 200,000 cases of parental kidnapping; these comprised both domestic and international abductions.
[4] Fewer than 350 people under the age of 21 have been abducted by strangers in the United States per year, on average, between 2010–2017.
[2] However, over half a million missing child cases remain unclassified each year,[6] and it is unknown how many of these represent abduction by strangers.
1201), whoever illegally confines, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, seizes or takes away a person and holds for ransom or prize can be considered as a criminal.
The United States is a party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.