{"id":281723,"date":"2025-11-14T03:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281723\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T03:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:20:13","slug":"man-accused-of-bringing-son-to-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281723\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of bringing son to Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police are searching for a man who is accused of abducting his son and bringing him to Ethiopia without the permission of the child\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a release, police allege that Modupe Owaseye, 34, of Toronto, travelled with his two-year-old son, Emmanuel, to Ethiopia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They say Owaseye left Canada without the consent of Emmanuel\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Owaseye is described by police as five-foot-seven and 150 pounds, with short brown hair and a clean-shaven face. He was last seen wearing a grey sweater and black pants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Emmanuel is described as two feet tall and was wearing a black hat, green sweater with white teddy bears, beige pants, and black running shoes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BQZFHEMWWVCU3L2YNN75JMN3WA.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Modupe Owaseye and son emmanuel Toronto police are searching for a man who is accused of abducting his two-year-old son and bringing him to Ethiopia without the permission of the child\u2019s mother. (Police handout) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Owaseye is wanted for abduction of a person under 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe are actively taking all the necessary investigative steps to locate both the victim and suspect,\u201d Toronto police said in an email to CTV News Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-2300, or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are searching for a man who is accused of abducting his son and bringing him to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-281723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}