He becomes party to the kidnapping of a child, Canny, who is the only person to whom he can really talk.

The following day's newspaper is headlined with the kidnapping of a child whose wealthy parents lived on Lake Shore Drive.

It depicts, among other abominations, the kidnapping of a child, the beating of a woman, an ax murder, a mad scene and strangulation by a long pigtail.

The German translator of Fabris is so incensed that he likens Giganti's offence to "the kidnapping of a child", and wishes for the immediate recall of the work.

A new Government report says a paid informer, Claude Thirault of Charleroi, told the authorities that Mr. Dutroux was offering roughly $5,200 for the kidnapping of a child.

En route to meet his fiancée, Katherine Grant (Sylvia Sidney), Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracy) is arrested on flimsy circumstantial evidence for the kidnapping of a child.

The earliest nationally publicised kidnapping of a child by a stranger for the purpose of extracting a ransom payment from the parents was the Pool case of 1819, which took place in Baltimore, Maryland.

Corsica is the setting for "Lost," a taut and atmospheric first novel by Lucy Wadham in which the kidnapping of a child gives a strange and transient meaning to the lives of several island inhabitants.

The kidnapping of a child by crows comes from Irish folktales of the Sluagh, and from Maurice Sendak's Outside Over There where a girl rescues her brother kidnapped by goblins.

The same publisher has reissued several early Wexford novels, including No More Dying Then ($11), which, characteristically, is part police procedural, part character study, this time involving the kidnapping of a child in a small town.

Similarly on 23 May, the BBC also announced that it was scrapping a storyline from rival soap EastEnders, that had already been filmed, which also was to feature the kidnapping of a child.

'The Terror of Blue John Gap' by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) recounts terrible events at the Blue John mines, and Sherlock Holmes investigates the kidnapping of a child in the region in 'The Adventure of the Priory School'.

"Somebody offered a $25,000 reward for information on kidnapping of a child, and at the same time there was a reward of nearly twice that amount to find the killer of a dog," said Ed Sayres, president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in San Francisco.

He later becomes a defense attorney, and was later charged for alleged complicity in the kidnapping of a child by one of his clients (he had agreed to take custody of the child, without alerting authorities, and wait twenty-four hours before returning her to her parents, as a condition of the kidnapper surrendering her to him).