Texas Father and Mother have three year old Son.
Father and Mother divorce.
At trial, the divorce court awards Mother primary custody of Son.
So Father allegedly abducts Son … for seventeen years.
Mother and Son have apparently had no contact for all those years.
Now twenty years old, Son reads a newspaper article about his own kidnapping as a child.
Son tells Father to turn himself in.
Father is charged with interference with child custody.
Read more in this Associated Press article: Texas woman’s ex-spouse, son emerge after 17 years and this Houston Chronicle article: Taken as boy, solves case as a man.