0 present participle of abduct --
1 to force someone to go somewhere with you, often using threats or violence: --
The company director was abducted from his car by terrorists.
2 to move a part of the body away from the central part of the body or away from another body part: --
It is abducting children—a ghastly business.
Despite the desirability of criminal sanctions, it is certainly my hope that the abducting parent will still be first and foremost answerable to the court whose order has been flouted.
So they have taken to abducting schoolchildren.
Surely the purpose of the convention also is to prevent any party from gaining an advantage in an application for care and custody by abducting a child to another country.
It may be that such an offender did not get any further than abducting the child because the child was rescued before any more serious offence was committed.
Are there any other known cases of a burglar being disturbed and abducting a house owner in his or her own car?
In some cases, we know that the abducting parent has agreed to return the child voluntarily.
In the old days one of the favourite local hobbies of the lads of the village was abducting wealthy heiresses.
