Harry Reid: “let's assume that you are a mother, you have a 6-year-old child, you have recently been divorced, and you go to pick the…”

“let's assume that you are a mother, you have a 6-year-old child, you have recently been divorced, and you go to pick the child up from school and he is not there. You wonder what happened to your child. You call the police; the police have no knowledge of his whereabouts. No one seems to know what happened to your child. But as things are pieced together, you learn that your husband, who you recently divorced, has taken the child from school and to Croatia. This happens during the time of the Balkans war. What as a mother are you to do? Your child is in Croatia. You were married to a Croatian. This is a situation that 1,000 parents face every year in our country. Over 1,000 children are taken from this country, normally as a result of the mother and father not getting along, or recently divorced, and they are taken many times to a country where one of the parents was born. Sometimes the parent just takes off to a country they are familiar with. They want to get away from the wife or husband, recognizing that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to get the baby back. The tragedy is of a thousand stories a year; there are many thousands of stories I could retell. The Las Vegas Review Journal reported about a woman by whose name is Lilly Waken. Her two daughters left home for a party. The children never came back. Frantically, she called the police. She called the hospitals.…”