On the expediency of liability for parental child abduction
The article deals with the expediency of liability for parental child abduction. Scholars point out that the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation has become a "patchwork quilt" in connection with numerous changes made to this legal act. However, some fundamentally important relations are not regulated by the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Protection is necessary in relation to a child who becomes a subject about which the spouses have a dispute, ending in the fact that one of the spouses "abducts" the child from the other parent. The protection of emerging relations is important due to the need to protect the child from negative impacts on his/her physical and mental health. The article aims to deal with this problem. Its justification requires studying and analysing judicial practice, as well as taking into account its relevance in the modern society of the Russian Federation. The analysis of Article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Abduction") allows the author to conclude that child abduction has some specific features that do not allow the legislator to add a new item to Article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and require introducing a new article into the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.