Two individuals placed under travel restrictions in Ulvila child abduction case

The Satakunta District Court has placed individuals suspected in the Ulvila child abduction case under enhanced travel restrictions. This measure involves monitoring the person and restricting their movement through technical means. A man born in 1986 and a woman born in 1988 are suspected of taking their three foster children from Ulvila on July 1. They are being investigated for child abduction and aggravated deprivation of liberty.

The suspects and the minors were found later abroad. The incident began at a recreational venue where the parents reportedly retrieved the children. According to Iltalehti, the alleged abductors claim they did not view their actions as kidnapping but rather as taking the children on a vacation. The child’s father stated in a phone interview with Iltalehti, “They were taken from a public place. I didn’t even consider it an abduction. There was no coercion. We’re just on vacation with our kids.”

According to Yle, the couple has three children together, and they reside in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Reports indicate that the children have long been placed outside the family home.

Furthermore, Yle previously reported that the woman suspected in the abduction is also alleged to have committed multiple counts of aggravated rape. These allegations emerged last year and are currently under prosecution consideration.

Additionally, official documents reveal that one of the couple’s children is a victim in a criminal case involving only one of the parents. This allegation also came to the authorities’ attention last year and has not yet progressed to prosecution consideration. The children’s mother previously managed a daycare in a small locality in Southern Finland. Yle reports that the woman is the plaintiff in an ongoing dispute case concerning the closure of her daycare operations at the Kanta-Häme District Court.