Ulf Andersson, a 38 year old from Småland hasn`t seen his daughter for six year`s
after his former partner moved hundreds of kilometres away and refused
to allow him into his daughter`s life. He founded the father`s rights group
papparättsgruppen to fight for father`s custody and visitation right”

In Sweden there are around 100 recorded cases of international child parent abduction every year, equally divided between kidnaps TO Sweden, usually by the mother, and kidnaps FROM Sweden, usually by the foreign born father. The true annual abduction figure though is said to be higher with many cases not actually reaching the authorities. One such case involved George Pesor, who lived in Sweden for 12 years. An australian, he now resides back home in Melbourne with his two sons, whom he`d won sole custody of in a Family court in Sweden in 2004, following a bitter legal battle with his Swedish ex-wife whom he says accused him at the time of sexually abusing and trying to murder their children. Under twice yearly visitation rights agreed by the family court in Australia,under the hague convention, the boys flew to Sweden to visit their mother for a third time in October 2008 but confirming the 42 year old father`s worst fears that they would be kidnapped by his ex wife, Frank and”