Fed: Man accused of snatching children in court today

AAP General News (Australia)
08-07-2006
Fed: Man accused of snatching children in court today

A father accused of snatching his three children in Sydney .. and fleeing to Canberra
after a domestic dispute .. appears in Sydney's Central Local Court today.

The man can't be named for legal reasons .. and has been remanded until he appears in court.

The man and his three children .. aged five .. three and 22 months .. were found by
police at a motel in the northern Canberra suburb of Watson on Thursday morning.

The man faces charges of malicious wounding .. three counts of taking and detaining
a person with intent to obtain advantage .. and contravening an apprehended domestic violence
order.

The three children .. who were taken into protective custody after the man was arrested
.. have been reunited with their mother.

AAP RTV dep/rt/cp/wz/psm/

KEYWORD: CHILDREN (CANBERRA)

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