It could be seen as abduction, because that’s what it was. These people abducted an infant from Afghanistan.
When the Afghans arrived at a refugee resettlement camp in Virginia, the Justice Department wrote, Mast presented the adoption order to federal employees, who didn’t know that the U.S. government had already deemed his claim to the girl to be flawed. Unwittingly, those employees helped Mast take custody of the child, and she’s been with him ever since.
Waaaaay worse than just abduction. He tricked the relatives to come to America under false pretence before taking the baby away from them. Absolutely sickening how far he went to steal this baby from it’s relatives.
This is no different than Russians kidnapping Ukrainian kids
I would say the scale and industrialization that the Russians are doing it at makes some difference, but on an individual level, it’s the same. Hopefully with enough public pressure, the us military will fix it. I doubt the brass is happy with this.
The difference is that while the Russian government is encouraging and legitimizing this kind of behavior, it’s so abnormal in the US that a single instance of it happening becomes a big legal fight and national news.
“and found an uncle who reported that the girl’s father, a farmer, had been slain in the raid, along with his wife and five other children”
A raid by who…? The US, or?
