The Crime and Trauma of International Parental Child Abduction - Jeffery Morehouse

Every year nearly 1,000 U.S. children are kidnapped by a parent to a foreign country and cut off from the only life they know. Since 1994 more than 475 have been kidnapped to Japan. The last time I saw my only child, the last time I heard his voice, was Father’s Day 2010 when I dropped him off to visit his mother. Tune in to learn more about this ongoing crisis, prevention, and efforts to end international parental child abduction.
In addition to being an award-winning filmmaker, Jeffery Morehouse, volunteers much of his time as Executive Director of Bring Abducted Children Home (www.bachome.org). According to U.S. Government figures more than 475 American children have been kidnapped by a parent to Japan since 1994.
Bring Abducted Children Home is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the immediate return of internationally abducted children being wrongfully detained in Japan. It also strives to end Japan's human rights violation of denying children unfettered access to both parents. BAC Home works to increase public awareness through outreach on the crisis of international parental child abduction. He collaborates with an alliance of international partners working to end child abduction to and within in Japan.
He is also a founding partner in The Coalition to End International Parental Child Abduction (www.endchildabduction.org) uniting organizations to work passionately to end international parental kidnapping of children through advocacy and public policy reform. In July 2022, U.S. Senate Resolution 568, noted, “the Coalition to End International Parental Child Abduction, through dedicated advocacy and regular testimony, has highlighted the importance of this issue to Congress and called on successive administrations to take concerted action to stop international parental child abduction and repatriate kidnapped United States children.”
Between 2015-2021 he testified and briefed the U.S. Congress eight times. Most recently on September 29, 2021 in The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and December 10, 2018 in the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Japan’s systemic failure to return kidnapped children. In October 2022 he briefed the United Nations Human Rights Committee on parental child abduction and loss of access within and to Japan. This resulted in the UN reporting Japan should, introduce necessary measures.
Since 2011 he has led hundreds of policy meetings on Capitol Hill, The Department of Justice, The Department of State, foreign embassies and The White House. In 2022 he contributed to the updated, “When Your Child is Missing: A Family Survival Guide 5th Edition, 2022". The guide is provided by the AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He has testified as an expert witness in the California and Florida family courts on prevention cases. Information about his son’s 2010 kidnapping to Japan and efforts to locate him and reunite are at: www.bringmochihome.wordpress.com and www.bachome.org/mochi-morehouse/
Though his U.S. sole custody order was recognized as legal by courts in Japan in 2014 and 2017, his son “Mochi” Atomu Imoto Morehouse (井本 _歩⼟夢) remains kidnapped and cut off from him.
He believes it is important for parents of internationally kidnapped children to strategically engage in raising the level of awareness this human and family rights crisis.

[@luciabrazil1]

I was abducted by my father at age 5 along with my 3 older siblings. I met my mother when I was 18. She was a complete stranger to me.

[@bringbryanback]

Great video. Thank you for sharing this Mr. Jeffery Morehouse

[@FamiliesDividedTV]

You are very welcome

[@juns597]

Jefferey, this is just unexcusable. I can't belive you Jefferey still hasn't seen his son. I can't imagine not seeing my son. It's so fucked up!!!

[@FamiliesDividedTV]

Jeffery still has not seen his son and sadly it happens all the time.

[@GreatLew]

I need help please. My daughter was taken from me. Please help in any way you can.

[@GreatLew]

My daughter was removed from our state against an existing Custody Decree. It's been almost a year now and my 7 year old daughter has stopped talking to me.

[@FamiliesDividedTV]

So sorry for your situation. Do you have an attorney?

[@nichole_exposing_unseen_enemy]

@@GreatLewfile a criminal complaint of parental interference with police. Insist it is criminal, not civil and cite the state law with penalties of up to 5 years in prison!