Kayla Unbehaun was 9-years-old when she was allegedly abducted by her mother in 2017. NBC’s Maggie Vespa reports.
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Of course she is alive..shes with her MOTHER.
well try to make the marriages work and then you won’t have to get divorced and do awful things like split time with your ex spouse over the children.
Hopefully the mom gets out of prison soon and can move somewhere near her.
HECK YES!!!! Super happy for her daddy!!!
If she’s with her mom, how does that count as missing? Missing means nobody (even those who are related to her) knows where the little girl is.
A child belongs with the mother. Who gave birth? The mom or the dad. Maybe the mother did not trust the father…..
She definitely had help from family and/or friends. It will be interesting what comes out if she goes to trial.
I wonder why the mom took her….. I hope it wasn’t in attempt to keep her safe from the father.
That’s insane!!!
Hopefully she was taken because he was abusive.
It’s her mom. 🤷🏾♀️
The only person affected by this is probably her dad.
Oh come on! She was with her MOTHER! She wasn’t missing or abducted by some stranger. And obviously her chances of being live with her MOTHER after six years are pretty good, right?
❤blessings
Psycho Mother… Just keeps hurting her own daughter with nothing but her own interests. Glad she’s in Jail!!👍👍
Why do I feel a sense of foreboding?
That is a blessing the girl is alive and hopefully was not harmed. When people say social media is harmful to the world, I think the podcasts and documentaries that help bring awareness to stories like Kayla’s.
I was so happy when I clicked on this and then heard that she was “abducted” by her MOTHER💀
And she’s been raised by her for at least 6 years (as she should be) and y’all just got her taken away. THATS the tragedy.
Awesome, 15 y/o now!! Now, go and live your life to the fullest young lady 🙂
Title is purposely misleading. Of course everyone thinks this is a kidnapping by a malicious stranger when you write “Missing For Six Years” and “Found Alive!” This girl was recovered after her own mother violated the custody ruling. Very sad and heartbreaking for her and all the family, but the title is a sleezy trick. NBC is exploiting this girl for clicks. I probably won’t “click” on NBC anymore.
Why shouldn’t parental kidnapping be addressed the same way kidnapping is? Just because she was with her mother doesn’t mean that the girl wasn’t enduring trauma. Being taken away from a parent is traumatic enough and who knows what lies the mother told the daughter while they were gone. It isn’t uncommon for mothers to take their own children away from the father and murder them as well.. It is crazy how much men suffer in the court of law when it comes to their rights as a parent but we are so willing to be lenient on a mother who made a decision to inflict trauma into her own daughter by taking the course of action she did. The mothers intent was malice against the father and daughter on a mental level and I think that the title is appropriately titled considering parental kidnap is a very serious thing and should not be downplayed just because she was with her mom….
Ppl need to stop making assumptions, and start looking at this in face value…considering us viewers don’t have full details. So face value is all we should see it for. That being said…the mother lost custody, the mother took her daughter illegally, the mother is now a criminal. Assuming doesn’t do much, especially when u got the facts right in front of u. The fact is, she kidnapped.
What? that’s not a kidnap she was with her mother. She wasn’t truly kidnapped.
I always wonder in child ab.duction custody cases why the parent lost custody to begin with. I feel like these are completely different than a stranger ab.duction.
Masha’Allah
She was with her mother so that means she was missing? Strange.
By the court of law, yes. It is parental kidnapping.
She wasn’t missing … She was with her mother. The courts don’t always get it right nor does the judge know what the father was like behind closed doors. Maybe the mother had good reasons for what she did….. I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt because she sounds like she was doing just fine with her daughter on her own. This is not a story.
The amount of sexist idiots that assume the father is bad and the mother must of been the victim of abuse is quite nauseating. The fact the father won custody should be quite telling as the courts very rarely give fathers sole custody even when the mother is proven to be bad.
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Can’t be abducted by mother. The mother just took her child.
Clarification is required.
A mother should never be accused of “kidnap” when it is her own child. Surely a different description is required.
If the girl was traumatised in any way she would have made herself known to the authorities well before this.
How they were living and their relationship is critical to know before rushing to judgement.
99% of comments are basically , if my child is ever abducted by a stranger for more than a week just let them keep it 🤣
I think it needs to be up to the little girl. How does she feel about this entire situation?
How do most children feel when their mother takes them away from a father that wants to be in their life?
What people are not realizing is the trauma her being found has caused her. She is in the custody of social services, let that sink in a bit.
Missing? With her mother no you guys knew where she was
They must think about how to handle this in the best way for the child. Mom really wanted the child with her, which is understandable, but went about it in the wrong way. If the child seems well-adjusted, I don’t think it would be good to jail mom since that could cause the child to be distraught. Find a punishment that is best for all.
Can your biological mom kidnap you? I mean are you missing when your mom is raising you? Was your mom missing?
Yes, it is called custodial interference, parent- child kidnapping, or parental kidnapping.
How disruptive for this young lady. I. Guessing it’s going to be very hard for her and her father after 6 years apart. I wish people would put their children before any of their own wants and needs. Too many people weaponise their children against the other parent.
I hope summer wells is safe somewhere
Abducted is hardly the right word. And to state that she was found alive makes it seem like she was kidnapped by a stranger. This was a parental fight. I was in the same situation. My mom ran to another state with me and my 3 siblings in the same way. My dad knew where she went however, and showed up with police.
Is Parental Kidnapping a better term for you? It is still kidnapping nonetheless and the mother still made a choice to insert trauma into her daughter’s life.
This is disgusting. Id happily adopt that little girl and give her proper home
Did you even watch the video? SMH
How do you go missing for 6 years and still be found alive?
Stop sponsoring Netflix shows.
I feel so bad for her. Normalcy just flew out the window and her mom stripped away from her. Children need BOTH PARENTS.
Youtube is a dem tool to assist in keeping us blinded
Well she’s been safe and taken care of for 6 years. Maybe her mom saved her life the last 6 years we never know what these two parts can do
Straight to jail for the mother.
she was with her mother, not really missing
And the mother is a kidnapper.
We dont know whether this is a positive outcomevfor this child. And I loathe how the network’s show was promoted ad oart of the story.
Shout out to Peacock!
I loved stories with happy endings. 😄 Let’s hope as this case head to court Kayla will not be caught in the middle of this dispute. Do your duty, Child Services. It is up to you to protect children from these conflicts.
Hmmmm… but can a mother really “kidnap” her own child? So stoopid
this is not a “case” … nor a girl gone “missing” or “kidnapped”. this is a family dispute. it’s HIGHLY unlikely that the child is killed in these cases. So this isnt even news worthy at all.
She’s with her mother. Her mother is her family too. We cannot judge family matters here. (Period )
Her mother made a willing choice to destroy her family and cause her daughter trauma. She needs to be held accountable.
Thank you, God, for protecting this little girl!
Poor girl.
This isn’t a kidnapping. It’s just another custody dispute.
I knew she was alive! Usually i get bad feelings with cases like this and I’m always right and now i wanna jump up and down in joy because my gut feeling was right.
This is technically still kidnapping but it’s different than kidnapping by a stranger.
This article made it sound like she was abducted by a total stranger. Thats kinda clickbait and dumb
I’m so glad she is found alive!!!!
I grew up only remember my parents after the were divorced, so did not have to remember a time when they were together as a family. But both my mom and my dad would tell terrible stories about each other. They would both say the I would need to ask to call them because the other would make excused why I could new come to the phone when they called.
The would even use me as leverage to hurt the other. Time that was agreed to changed he visitation time for a family party would never be honored and I would be the one missing out.
Worse was my grand parents 50th they had a big party on the beach and rented a big boat for the day. But my dad would not release me saying it was his time even though my mom allowed me to go 3 week early to have it end 2 week early for the party. Worse was my grand dad died that year an I never got to see him. Still hurt this day.
This is why I tell all my friends that I know that get divorce to try to make sure to never user the kids as weapons you only scar them.
Wasn’t a missing person. The mom lived her so much to take her away.
really? or did mommy just want to stick it to daddy because she hates him? this was never about what is right for the kid its about what mommy wants and her entitlement because “i pushed the kid out of me”
The mother was 100% wrong to kidnap her own daughter. She should have taken the legal route first and foremost. What she did was not taking the kid’s mental health and well being into consideration.
Government has no business meddling in this family matter.
That doesn’t even make any sense.
Why no black girls get the same attention I’m a black male asking this glade she was found safe tho but still
Wow
Well, it’s her mother who took her.
Custody battle.
she wasn’t missing if it was kidnapped by her mother, a friend of mine had this problem, wife took his kid out of the country and took him basically the same time to get her back
WP problems
your saying that every race of crazybitch doesn’t use their kids custody as a weapon? grow up.
Abducted by her mother… that’s not an abduction
Not missing she was with her Mom
I mean being 15yrs old is hard enough. You discovering who you are. Imagine discovering who you are is not who you are. Finding out your face and story was all over the news, unsolved mysteries, and a paramount+ documentary. That has to be extremely upsetting.
Why did the mother kidnap her daughter to begin with? I’d like to know both sides of the story.
You can always count on your fellow Americans to rat you out.
No better than the Germans calling out their neighbors to the Gestapo
Being put in social services was not the right choice
mommy using her kids custody as a weapon isnt the right choice either. alot of parents dont even deserve to be parents. this was never about whats right for kayla. its about mommy sticking it to daddy cus mommy doesnt like him anymore and the court said they had to share custody
why do woman think talking out the side of there face is cool? have u not ever heard the saying talking out the side of your neck??????????? u look and sound like a clown.
Its still her mom its not that crazy was she ever missing? And missing from what.
Did they save a child from her mother?
Or did they deliver them both to an abusive husband and father?
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mommy and daddy can’t agree Kayla, so me and you are going to run away because mommy doesn’t like daddy and you are my weapon against him.
mom of the year
Everyone talking about “sides” and I’m here wondering _how_ they went 6 years without checking in with the mom in the first place. It sounds like the mom was something of a missing person herself
North Carolina! Perfectly fit
This will never end well . Parents must fix it for the little girl .
two parents who divorced and the kids custody used as a weapon. happens all the time and both of them barely deserve to even be parents.
@Violently Peaceful I agree
If the father had kidnapped the girl, it’d have been a nationwide manhunt and they’d have caught him in less than 6 weeks. Not 6 years. Tell me I’m wrong.
Im wondering if anyone is really thinking of what is good for the child. 6 years is a long time and the girl is 15 years old and probably well established whereever her mother was.
nobody did. her custody was used a weapon for two parents divorced going to war about it.
Are you saying that the girl was with her mother? Crazy
i’m pretty sure what you’re supposed to take away from this is that the child’s custody is being used as a weapon. the mom is just the one who broke the court’s order. so dense.
@Violently Peaceful I understand 👍
So this was just an ad for a show on Peacock.
That is fantastic, and one can only hope that is she able to adjust. Although, she may need some type of counseling to assist with the transition.
So she looses her mom gers placed with a man she doesn’t know aged 15…daughter looses again…
mommys fault for using her own childs custody as a weapon and then throwing a tantrum by disobeying the court. whole family is trash as far as im concerned.
Nothing new here, yall would be very surprised to know the real number of women kidnappers and their M O. when stealing children from the fathers of their children.
How wonderful that a girl who has been with her mother for the last nine years, suddenly finds out that her mother is a “kidnapper”. She will now go back to a family who she may not even remember and in a state which is new to her. She will leave all her friends at age fifteen and will have to start all over again. She will only have to wait until she is 18 to be free and then maybe will not even be with her mom since her mother may be in prison. What a great situation to be in when you are a teenager who suddenly has her old life torn away.
when you use the custody of your child as a weapon against your ex, this is what happens. the whole family is trash as far as im concerned.
Hos ffamily plnned this to make a movie and make a budget out of it
everyones all “oh what about if the dad was the one who did this” or “how can you kidnap your own kid”. when you have two parents who disagree like normal people and divorce, this doesn’t happen. when you have two parents who make all this stuff about themselves and ignore custody laws and court orders, this happens.
it’s because the child is in the middle of it with their custody being used as a weapon against the other one. The two “parents” are so childish that they allow themselves to be in a position WHERE A COURT AND JUDGE DECIDE WHAT IS BEST FOR THEIR KID BASED UPON THEIR OWN CHILDISH DECISION-MAKING. grow up morons and see stuff for what it is.
Woah, how does a mother kidnap her child. Crazy!
So selfish😢
A mother can’t abduct their own child 🙄
She’s at the age now I’m sure she is confused and devastated. She is used to the life she had and now ripped out of her normal. Hopefully it’s the best choice ..
This is a very sad situation. Chances are good that her mom Will get YEARS for this, and now she has to go live with her Dad who she barely knows anymore. Has he considered he may be getting his daughter back, but this will be a whole new experience, because she is not the same little girl she once was; it won’t be snuggles and hugs because she thinks he’s superman, like the last time he saw her. I see trouble ahead, as this 15 year old may resent him for taking her away from her friends, her home, school and uprooting her life. She could despise him…Parents PLEASE please dont be selfish with your child. She/ he is NOT your property you own and can use as a pawn to get what you want, or to harm family or the other parent to get back at them. You WILL hurt the child in the process, wether you realize it or not. If you do these things, you are a horrible person who should NOT be raising another person. Your child should come FIRST. Do what is best for THEM! Imagine a childhood filled with people that love them, as.many as possible. If you can put your revenge aside, and YOUR preferences to have your child all to yourself, and be willing to SHARE this little person, to allow them love from not just you, but from both parents, all grandparents from both sides…and NEVER EVER put that child in the middle of choosing favorites by talking bad about the others-even if you yourself do not get along with them, because you know how good it makes your baby (no matter the age) to feel JOY, to be loved…if you do THAT for your child- you are a wonderful and loving parent! YOU have to make sacrifices for your child. You HAVE TO put the animosity, revenge, dislike or heaven forbid, hatred aside, (its over, move on!) Do it for your child- they will grow up happy, and mentally stabil and well rounded. They will learn how to get along with others… please don’t show them how to fight. Yell, scream…IT HURTS THEM to see the people they love the most, fighting. They will, in time, think it’s their fault- and that is a terrible thing to put them through. Please pray for this family, because these mistakes are going to cause even more pain. Not wise of mom to do that, unless there was a true fear of abuse, but then prove THAT. Dont handle it like this…😢
How can a mother be a kidnapper 🙄 its her child. What even is wrong with the western world 🙄 mother but didnt have custody, the girl is fine! She looks like sje was well taken care of 🙄 who is this government trying to tell if the baby can live with me or not, its ny baby!
It’s obvious that she have to kidnap and hide only because she was not being given the custody! You invented the crime!
OMG
OMG. Maybe she will want to stay with her mom. If her mom is a good mom. Know crime in my heart has been committed.
Poor kid. She’s the one who will suffer. 💔
Praise the Lord 😅
Found after six years… with the mother. They didnt look too hard did they?