"Police said a Tuscola County father used the popular MySpace.com Web site to help them find his missing 6-year-old daughter, allegedly kidnapped by her mother [Dulce Sebald] three years ago. Brian H. Sebald, 26, reunited with his daughter, Briana Sebald, last week...he last saw his child in 2004 in a parking lot at Clio High School in Genesee County. Brian Sebald...said his daughter was crying when Dulce Sebald left with the girl in the taxicab on April 23, 2004.

"Sebald said he asked Genesee County Sheriff's Department officers to stop Dulce Sebald from taking the girl after Dulce Sebald was allowed a supervised visit with the child on that day. Sebald said his daughter had lived with him for more than a year before Dulce Sebald's visit, but that police refused to give the girl back to him. 'The police officer let me say goodbye to Briana, and I just reassured her it would be all right and I would get her back,' Brian Sebald said."

Tuscola man finds his missing child by MySpace
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
By Tom Gilchrist

CARO - Police said a Tuscola County father used the popular MySpace.com Web site to help them find his missing 6-year-old daughter, allegedly kidnapped by her mother three years ago.Brian H. Sebald, 26, reunited with his daughter, Briana Sebald, last week at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Sebald brought his daughter home to the tiny town of Tuscola on Wednesday - more than three years after he said he last saw the girl leaving with her mother in a taxicab in Genesee County.

''It's been three years since I've talked to my daughter on the phone, so imagine not talking to one of your kids for three years, and missing her first day of school, and several birthdays, Christmases and other holidays,'' Brian Sebald told The Times.

''Briana and I have a lot of catching up to do.''

Brian Sebald said he never married Dulce M. ''Candy'' Sebald, 34, who remained held without bond Thursday in the Snohomish County Jail in Everett, Wash.

Brian Sebald said he also is the father of Dulce Sebald's 3-year-old son, Sarandon Sebald. He said Dulce Sebald began using ''Sebald'' as her legal last name after a divorce from another man.

A Snohomish County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said police consider Dulce Sebald a fugitive, and said the suspect isn't fighting extradition to Michigan.

Tuscola County Prosecutor Mark E. Reene said he isn't sure yet if he'll try to extradite Dulce Sebald to Michigan, where he could arraign her on a charge of custodial interference. The felony carries a maximum sentence of one year and one day in jail.

Reene said social services officials in the state of Washington ''couldn't and/or wouldn't'' disclose Dulce Sebald's address, even after he made phone calls to Washington state seeking the suspect's location.

A Tuscola County judge in 2005 granted Brian Sebald sole custody of Briana, but Dulce Sebald ''ignored that order and we were left with no option but to issue the warrant for her arrest,'' Reene said.

Dulce Sebald used a screen name of ''SexyNakedCandy'' on her MySpace.com page, said Sgt. Geoff Boyer of the Michigan State Police post at Caro.

Brian Sebald ''apparently knew of the daughter's whereabouts in the state of Washington by using MySpace.com, and somehow he came up with a possible location of the girl,'' Boyer said.

''He turned that tip over to us, and from there the Michigan State Police helped locate the mother and the daughter.''

The U.S. Marshals Service, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office and the Everett (Wash.) Police Department assisted Michigan State Police in apprehending Dulce Sebald.

Though Brian Sebald lived in Tuscola County at the time of his daughter's disappearance, he said he last saw his child in 2004 in a parking lot at Clio High School in Genesee County.

Brian Sebald, who works as a cashier at a Dollar General store in Clio, said his daughter was crying when Dulce Sebald left with the girl in the taxicab on April 23, 2004.

Sebald said he asked Genesee County Sheriff's Department officers to stop Dulce Sebald from taking the girl after Dulce Sebald was allowed a supervised visit with the child on that day.

Sebald said his daughter had lived with him for more than a year before Dulce Sebald's visit, but that police refused to give the girl back to him.

''The police officer let me say goodbye to Briana, and I just reassured her it would be all right and I would get her back,'' Brian Sebald said.

Read the full article here. To learn more about the parental kidnapping issue, see my co-authored column Family Abduction Prevention Act Fails to Address Causes of Parental Kidnapping (The Hill, 1/9/07).

Thanks to Lloyd Conway, a reader, for sending me the story.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 4th, 2007 at 12:12 pm and is filed under Family Law, Fathers' Rights/Noncustodial parents' rights, Crime/Criminal Justice System/Police, Sexism, Misandry, Parental Kidnapping, Single Fathers, Teen Fathers.