Gardaí bid to trace boy in care abducted by parents

GARDAÍ are trying to locate a 12-year-old boy who was abducted by his biological parents just weeks after he had been entrusted to the care of a foster family.

It is believed the boy’s natural parents took him from the care of a social worker after a meeting near a Burgerland restaurant in Cork’s Blackpool Shopping Centre on Tuesday of last week. It is understood a court had recently ordered the boy should stay with his foster carers in Mallow, Co Cork, until he turned 18.

However, on the access visit on April 26 last, when the boy was accompanied by a sister who is in the care of another family, and a social worker, he was taken by his natural parents.