In Nigeria, more than 80 school girls who were kidnapped from the town of Chibok three years ago have been reunited with their families.
Friday, October 11: Sterling Free, the man who kidnapped a seven-year-old girl from Kmart last December and molested her in bushland, has today been jailed for eight years.
One of the more bizarre and troubling global events of 2014 was the kidnap of nearly 300 teenage girls in Nigeria.
US President Barack Obama has told Nigeria that the United States will do everything it can to help find more than 200 kidnapped school girls but just as the US assistance was being announced, the Islamist group Boko Haram took another eight children in the country’s north.
Daniel: Remembered: The tragic case of young kidnap and murder victim Daniel Morcombe is to be made into a feature film.