Manitoba mom arrested for parental abduction

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A Manitoba mother has been arrested after she allegedly tried to take her two daughters to Turkey.

The children’s father, who lives in the Rural Municipality of La Broquerie, called Steinbach RCMP at about 7 p.m. Thursday after the girls were picked up at school by someone else. The father, 47, was supposed to pick up his daughters, ages 12 and 8, earlier that day.

He told RCMP his wife, 45, had the children and that he believed they were trying to leave the country.

RCMP said in a news release Friday that officers determined the mother and her daughters had been at the Winnipeg airport early that afternoon and had boarded a flight for Toronto.

Members of the Peel Regional Police Service found the mother and her two children at Toronto Pearson International Airport trying to board a flight destined to Turkey, the release said.

The woman was arrested on charges of parental abduction, and arrangements will be made for her to be transported to Manitoba, RCMP said.

The two children were placed into care and will be returned to Manitoba, the release said.

Police did not release the woman’s name.