Allison Quets is accused of kidnapping her biological twins and fleeing to Canada. Lawyers from similar cases say her defense won't be easy.

Allison Quets' friends say the illness she endured through most of her pregnancy left her isolated and weak. In that condition, they say, she felt pressured by the former boyfriend to choose what he thought was the best future for her babies.

Allison Quets is in Oklahoma en route to Raleigh for a detention hearing on the charge of international parental kidnapping, her attorney said Friday. She is accused of taking the twins she gave up for adoption to Canada.

Allison Quets' flight to Canada with the twins she gave up for adoption landed her in a federal courthouse Monday in Syracuse, N.Y., and may hurt her chances of ever seeing those children again.

Allison Quets has a lot on her mind. There's the battle for custody of the Apex twins she gave up for adoption. And there's the international kidnapping charge she faces for whisking them to Canada.

An FBI agent says Allison Quets, accused of kidnapping the twins she gave up for adoption, fell out with an Apex couple over money before later allowing them to take her children. An affidavit provides details of the deal-making.

Durham officers gathered records.

Allison Quets, who fled to Canada last month with the fraternal twins she had given up for adoption, walked into a Ottawa courtroom Tuesday only to have her bail hearing delayed until Thursday, according to the Ottawa Sun newspaper.

Their biological mother is being held by Canadian authorities; she faces kidnapping charges in the U.S.

A woman arrested in Canada in connection with the kidnapping of 17-month-old adopted Apex twins will have a court hearing Tuesday in Canada.

The twins' birth mother, Allison Quets, 49, was arrested this morning on a federal charge of international parental kidnapping and North Carolina charges of second-degree kidnapping, the FBI says.

Allison Quets, 49, is wanted by federal authorities on criminal charges of international parental kidnapping. The FBI released a statement that said Quets had crossed the Canadian border Saturday with two children.

Six days after they left for a court-sanctioned weekend visit with their birth mother, 17-month-old Apex twins have yet to be reunited with their adoptive parents.

Police were searching Tuesday for 17-month-old twins they think were taken from their adoptive parents by their biological mother.