‘Bring Our Children Home’: US Urged to Use All Legal Powers to Return Abductees

(L-R) Jeffery Morehouse, the father of a son abducted to Japan, speaks on a panel with Juan Garaicoa, the father of two children taken to Ecuador by their mother, and Michelle Littleton, a mother of three who were taken to Lebanon by their father, at a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on "Reviewing International Child Abduction" in Washington, on Dec. 10, 2018. NTD/York Du

WASHINGTON—Parents Jeffery Morehouse, Juan Garaicoa, and Michelle Littleton sat before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Dec. 10 to testify about the same terrible fate of their children—international abduction by a spouse.

“While most children were returning to school, my children were boarding a plane and being kidnapped to war-torn Lebanon,” Littleton, a mother of three, said.