In late summer 2004 a 10-month-old girl, Emily Juan, vanished from her family’s Flushing, Queens, apartment. Emily was last seen on September 5, 2004; she is biracial (Asian and Caucasian) with brown hair and brown eyes, dimples, and a small red birthmark on her right wrist. Reports say her mother, Nadia Juan (who may also use the names Mei-Fen or Julia), took Emily to Taiwan on September 6, 2004, and did not return for a scheduled visit from Emily’s father, Cary Sartin, on September 10.

New York Family Court summoned Nadia and Emily for September 14; the mother did not appear and custody was awarded to the father. A federal warrant for Nadia’s arrest on international parental kidnapping charges was issued on February 17, 2005. Taiwanese authorities reportedly prevented Nadia from leaving Taiwan with Emily, and custody disputes continued in Taiwan while the father was reportedly able to visit Emily there but was barred from bringing her to the United States.

The situation remains an unresolved international custody dispute. Did anyone in Flushing or Taiwan know the family or see them around September 2004?