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Three children allegedly snatched in Sydney by their father and found in Canberra following a domestic dispute have been reunited with their mother.
The children's 29-year-old father has been extradited to NSW to be formally charged after allegedly taking the children following a heated altercation with their mother in a Sydney park on Wednesday.
It is alleged he then fled to Canberra before phoning police on Thursday morning and alerting them to his whereabouts.
The man and his three children, aged five, three, and 22 months, were found by police at the Carotel Motel in the northern Canberra suburb of Watson.
The father, who now cannot be named for legal reasons, made a brief appearance in ACT Magistrates Court charged on an extradition warrant.
Magistrate Beth Campbell ordered he face Queanbeyan Local Court on Saturday to be formally charged with malicious wounding, three counts of taking and detaining a person with intent to obtain advantage, and contravening an apprehended domestic violence order.
A NSW Police spokeswoman said the three children, who were taken into protective custody after the man was arrested, were reunited with their mother overnight.
The mother was released from a Sydney hospital on Thursday following treatment for a superficial knife wound to her arm.
Sydney police searching for the children initially took the unusual step of using RTA billboards to urge motorists to report any sign of the children.
SOURCE: Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper
August 4, 2006
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Snatched-kids-reunited-with-mother/2006/08/04/1154198305886.html
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