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Originally Posted by Kizzy
For me there would be no question of her staying with the new 'family', they wouldn't have obtained her under any legal method would they?
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You have to be careful, though, that's a kneejerk reaction. If you drag, say, a 13 year old away from the people who they consider to be their family and friends, tell them they can never see them again, potentially even take them to another country. Maybe with people speaking a completely different language? There is a (very) high chance that they will simply never forgive you, even outright hate you, for life. Taking it to an even greater extreme, with a depressed teenager you have a very real suicide risk.
Even if the people they are found with are their actual abductors, the safest thing to do would be for them to be taken into care (with the abductors kept far away from them, hopefully in jail) but still allow them access to their friends etc. and have the biological family come into the situation slowly and carefully - so that they are a 3rd party, and never the ones thought of as having "taken them away".
Edited to add: If their abductors have treated them well / raised them like their own child, you also have to accept that there's a very high likelihood that the child does - and always will - love them like parents and may well decide to have them in their life in adulthood.