Has your child been abducted? Are you concerned that your child might be abducted? Did you and your child travel to Finland from abroad without the other parent or legal guardian’s knowledge?
Help
Call our helpline: +358 45 8553055! From Monday through Friday the phone is answered by our employees and during the weekend it is answered by the association’s volunteers.
Help can also be received via chat! Individual help is received via the chat at www.apuaeroon.fi or via the chat function on our website. Chat on Mondays from 11:00 until 14:00.
The following aspects constitute an international child abduction:
- A child is taken to or retained in a foreign country without the consent of the person who has custody of the child
- The failure to return a child from abroad at the end of a period of the exercise of the right of access to this child or at the end of any other temporary stay in a territory other than that where the custody is exercised
- The child has been a permanent resident in Finland
- The child is under the age of 16