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 WASHINGTON (AP) - A woman accused of fleeing with her daughter to Delaware 14 years ago in one of the nation's longest-running missing child cases was acquitted Wednesday of parental kidnapping.
Mary Jane Byrd left Washington in 1993 with her then 4-year-old child during a bitter custody dispute. She claimed she fled the girl's father, Carl Dodd, after years of abuse.
Dodd, who denies the abuse claim, said he searched for his daughter for years. Mother and daughter, now 18, were found by federal marshals in April 2006 at the home of Byrd's mother in Wilmington, Del.
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