FOSTER IMPOSTER: FBI Tracks Down Woman And Mother Who Kidnapped Five-Year-Old Boy And Fled To Vietnam

A 5-year-old American child kidnapped last month by a foster parent when he was due to be returned to his real mum has been found in Vietnam.

Picture shows the missing boy with the initials ‘ND’, 5, undated. He was rescued in Thai Binh, Vietnam, after being kidnaped by foster mother Amanda Dinges and has been reunited with his biological mother in Seattle, Washington, USA. (Mount Vernon Police Department/Newsflash)

It is unclear how Amanda Dinges, 35, and her mother Amber Dinges, 60, managed to take the boy out of the country without a passport.

The boy, aged five, had been placed with a foster mum who apparently did not approve of the biological mother once again meeting up with the boy in advance of the two eventually being reunited.

When the foster parent failed to turn up for a scheduled visit, the mum called police and detectives, together with the FBI, discovered that the boy had travelled with the two women to Vietnam and was living in Thai Binh Province.

After the boy was recovered in the country, he was flown to Tokyo in Japan and then back to Washington the following day.

Picture shows the missing boy with the initials ‘ND’, 5, undated. He was rescued in Thai Binh, Vietnam, after being kidnaped by foster mother Amanda Dinges and has been reunited with his biological mother in Seattle, Washington, USA. (Mount Vernon Police Department/Newsflash)

He has now been reunited with his biological mother in Washington State, according to a spokesman for the Mount Vernon Police Department (MVPD).

The exact details of why and have decided to escape the child, not named by police, have not been revealed. But he is now back with his mother in Seattle.

MVPD said the rescue operation had been organised together with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Homeland Security Investigations unit (HSI) and the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).

Amanda Dinges, 35, poses in undated photo. She was charged with second-degree kidnapping, after taking foster son ‘ND’, 5, to Thai Binh, Vietnam, from Seattle, Washington, USA. (Mount Vernon Police Department/Newsflash)

It is unclear why the Child Protection Services (CPS) and the Department of Youth and Family Services placed the boy with foster mother Amanda Dinges.

She has been charged with kidnapping together with her mother, Amber Dinges.

Mount Vernon Police Department said in a statement obtained by Newsflash: “With the primary task, the recovery of “ND” [the victim] complete, the next focus will be the arrest and extradition of Amanda Dinges and Amber Dinges. They are currently not in custody and known to be in Vietnam.

Amber Dinges, 60, poses in undated photo. She and her daughter Amanda Dinges, 35, took her daughter’s foster son ‘ND’, 5, to Thai Binh, Vietnam and were charged with kidnapping. (Mount Vernon Police Department/Newsflash)

“International recognition of warrants and extradition is a complicated process. Investigators will
continue their efforts until such time that Amanda Dinges and Amber Dinges appear in court on the
Kidnapping charges in Skagit County, Washington.”

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