Campaigners warn of risk of more child abductions

THERE could be an increase in the number of children being taken from Ireland to countries that have not signed up to the Hague Convention, the Irish Centre for Parentally Abducted Children (ICPAC) warned yesterday.

Former Fine Gael MEP Mary Banotti, who first established ICPAC, said she is receiving up to 10 calls a week from people seeking advice and expressing concern about the possible abduction of children.

She said that almost half the calls are from men and that a number are from Muslim women.