A militia of some one hundred armed men stormed into a girls boarding school in northwest Nigeria on Thursday night and abducted over 300 of the schoolgirls. It was the second such kidnapping in less than a week.
Police arrested an Arizona man after he faked his own kidnapping because he wanted to skip work, authorities said.
The Netherlands has halted on all international adoptions after a study revealed that many children brought to the country had been stolen from their parents.
Two Louisiana sanitation workers on their usual trash route helped to save a kidnapped ten-year-old girl.
Nigerian Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins has urged the Nigerian government to address the “burning” issue of insecurity in the land following the recent abduction of Bishop Moses Chikwe of Owerri.
Nigerian Bishop Moses Chikwe and his driver, who were abducted by gunmen on December 27, were released by their kidnappers late Friday, church officials report.
Pope Francis called for prayers Friday for the safe return of Nigerian Bishop Moses Chikwe, who was abducted last Sunday with his driver.
An off-duty Georgia police officer saved a kidnapped seven-month-old girl sleeping inside a car stolen from a parking lot, police said.
Three arrests have been made in connection with the cold case of 16-year-old Amber Woods, who was found dead 14 years ago along a Florida road.
Police arrested three Pakistani migrants in Thessaloniki, Greece, after they had allegedly held eight people hostage, ransoming their freedom.
The Islamic terror group Boko Haram claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the kidnapping of nearly 700 students from a secondary school in northern Nigeria on December 11.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has denounced Friday’s armed raid on a secondary school in Nigeria and called for the safe return of the hundreds of children who are still missing.
A former teacher was arrested Friday in Riverton, Utah, for allegedly kidnapping a girl and sneaking her into his classroom inside a bin.
Police arrested a 23-year-old Georgia man last week after he allegedly punched a woman in the face and kidnapped her and her baby from a Walmart in September.
A video has emerged of African migrant Ousseynou Sy describing his hatred towards Italians after he tried to set a bus full of Italian children on fire to protest migrants drowning in the Mediterranean.
A Cleveland, Ohio, man accused of kidnapping a nurse and murdering her mother was killed in a Louisiana shootout with authorities.
A New York City man was walking with his girlfriend Monday when he noticed a man allegedly attempting to kidnap a baby in a stroller.
The far-left Washington Post buried the news one of the alleged plotters in the scheme to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) is a Black Lives Matter supporter.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) claimed Thursday that President Donald Trump is “complicit” in stoking extremists like the ones who had planned an alleged plot to kidnap her and overthrow the state’s government.
A kidnapped Utah woman escaped captivity by writing 911 on her hand and showing it to a nearby locksmith, police said.
A mayoral candidate in Sumter, South Carolina, faces criminal charges for allegedly faking her own kidnapping and beating to garner publicity, sympathy, and votes.
At the Democrat National Convention (DNC) this week, a convicted murderer and kidnapper implicated in a gruesome 1985 torture and killing case was featured as a “criminal justice reform advocate.”
A registered sex offender was arrested this week in Boston for allegedly kidnapping and raping another victim.
British grime artist Solo 45 has been jailed for 24 years after imprisoning, torturing, and raping four women.
Two men, Shaan Khanyal and Achal Close, alongside a teenager, have been jailed for kidnapping and robbery after abducting and torturing a young couple, tasering the male victim’s genitals, and holding a knife to the female victim’s throat in Coventry, England.
Two Pakistani migrants have been sentenced to 14 and nine years in prison after they kidnapped a 17-year-old, blackmailed, and raped him.
Employees at a Louisiana Dollar General recognized a murder suspect and locked him inside the store until authorities arrived.
Dutch police have arrested six men after a torture chamber was discovered in a series of underground shipping containers, kitted out with implements of torture including a dentist chair, handcuffs, pliers, saws, and black hoods.
A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to just four years in prison for kidnapping a 14-year-old girl and forcing her to become a child prostitute in the French department of Loiret.
A previously deported illegal alien has been convicted on federal kidnapping charges for taking his ex-girlfriend against her will and allegedly threatening to murder her in May 2019.
Police rescued a Chinese billionaire on Monday after intruders broke into his luxury villa in southern China on Sunday and attempted to kidnap him, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
The FBI has joined three states — Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania — in a massive manhunt for a University of Connecticut student who police say is responsible for two homicides, a home invasion, and a kidnapping.
Six state police officers from the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas remain jailed after a judge formally charged them with aggravated kidnapping.
Two Ohio State football players were arrested on Tuesday, on charges of allegedly kidnapping and raping a woman in their Columbus, Ohio, apartment.
District Attorney Todd Spitzer dropped all charges against Grant Robicheaux and girlfriend Cerissa Riley after finding no “provable” evidence.
A Good Samaritan who saved a girl from an attempted kidnapping at a North Carolina restaurant will be dining on the house for the next year as an appreciation for his heroic efforts.
Police rescued a woman who was reportedly kidnapped at knifepoint by a suspect in Brookside, Alabama, on Sunday.
An Ohio State football fan in Phoenix for the Fiesta Bowl was caught on a doorbell camera pleading for help after being carjacked, and shot.
Islamist terror group Boko Haram, an affiliate of the Islamic State, attacked a largely Christian village new Chibok in northeastern Nigeria on Christmas Eve and killed seven people. A teenage girl was also reportedly abducted from the village.
An angry mob in Ondu state, Nigeria, set fire to a popular church on Wednesday over allegations that its pastor was responsible for the kidnapping and consequent murder of a one-year-old last month.
