Child abduction is the abduction or kidnapping of a child (or baby) by an older person. Several distinct forms of child abduction exist: A parent removes or retains a child from the other parent's care (often in the course of or after divorce proceedings). A stranger removes a child for criminal purposes: for child sexual abuse, torture, or murder, for extortion, to elicit a ransom from the child's caretakers, a stranger removes a child, with the intent to rear the child as their own. While cases have been reported from antiquity, this phenomenon has recently taken on greater awareness as a result of movies and television series (example: Without a Trace) depictions of the premise of people who remove children from strangers to bring up as their own often after the death of their own child.