[GCFL-discuss] Web-surfing teen learns of his own abduction

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Eagle

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>From the Associated Press.

Authorities arrested the mother of a 17-year-old boy after her son saw his
picture on a missing children's Web site and discovered that she was accused
of abducting him from his father 14 years ago.

Acting on a Canadian-issued warrant, U.S. marshals arrested Giselle-Marie
Goudreault, 45, at her home in the San Fernando Valley. She was being held
without bail until Canadian authorities can extradite her on child abduction
charges, authorities said.

Goudreault "was shocked and very emotional" during the Feb. 11 arrest, said
Jimell Griffin, a deputy U.S. marshal in Los Angeles. The boy's father had
custody of his son, and Griffin said Goudreault did not return him after a
court-ordered visit.

The teen, whose identity was not released, was immediately put in a foster
home.

The boy spotted his own photo, taken when he was 3, on a Canadian missing
children's Web site a few months ago and told a teacher about it,
authorities said. The teacher contacted police, who then confirmed the story
with Canadian authorities.

Griffin said although it was Goudreault's son who initiated contact with
authorities, the youth was upset at his mother's arrest and tried to comfort
her while she was being led away.

Goudreault initially took her son to live in Mexico, authorities said, and
she moved to the Los Angeles area in 1995. She has been remarried twice.

"They were taking her child away and she did what she had to do," Melissa
Goudreault, her sister-in-law, said in a telephone interview with The
Associated Press on Tuesday from her home in Red Deer, Alberta. "The family
is behind her and is trying to raise money for her legal defense."