morning. he's been charged with parental abduction. does this sound like a typical case? >> john, the it's really not. parental abduction is certainly not unusual. there are more than 200,000 of them a year in this country. but it's very rare that the abductor actually harms the child. less than 1% of these cases involve physical harm to the children. so if that is, in fact, what's happened, this is not a typical case. >> what do we know about this situation? my understanding is he was estranged from his wife. >> well, they are going through a divorce process. obviously there was conflict. he had taken two of the boys previously, which certainly was a signal. but what we know in these situations is that in 80% of the cases, the motive for taking of the child is not love of the child, it's anger or revenge directed at the ex-spouse. so these are very volatile situations that many people don't take very seriously. >> it's a very bizarre story here that the kids were taken by
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