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A friend of mine has an 8yr old daughter and has been looking after her since her mother left them both for a new partner.
The daughter has been living in the same house and going to the same school as she was before the break-up.
The mother lives many miles away, not within the same area.
The mother has been having visits from her daughter that have been arranged between the parents. But on this last visit the mother has phoned the father (my friend) telling him that his daughter is not coming back to him!
He does not know where his ex is currently living and his ex's mother (who took the child to her mother) seems to be in on the plan.
I am a single dad and have been in roughly the same situation, but it did not get to the point of 'kidnap'.
Any advice that I can pass onto him would be most appreciated as he is, understandably, in bits at the moment.
Thank you.
He could try calling the police, his daughter is in school and is resident at his property. If the police won't bring her back he can ask them to check she is ok and that she is not being held against her wishes. He would have to give them the grandmothers address but they should follow it up.
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