WELLINGTON (AFP) - New Zealand police said Tuesday they were worried about the mother of a three-year-old girl who was apparently dumped by her father at an Australian railway station before he flew to the US.
Police confirmed Qian Xun Xue was abducted by her father in Auckland and said there had been a history of violence in the family.
New Zealand police have been looking for 27-year-old Anan Liu since her daughter Qian Xun Xue was found alone, crying on the platform of Melbourne's Southern Cross Railway Station on Saturday.
Security camera footage at the station showed her father, Nai Zin Xue, 54, walking hand in hand with her through the station. After bending down to say something to her, he walked away, wheeling a suitcase behind him.
The father and daughter had flown from Auckland, where they live, on Thursday and Xue is believed to have flown on his own to Los Angeles on Saturday, police said.
Police in Auckland have stepped up their attempts to find Liu.
They said they were worried that neither the girl or her mother had been reported missing.
"Based on the information we have collated, we're concerned that Anan has not been able to contact us in relation to her daughter," said the officer in charge of the case, Detective Senior Sergeant Simon Scott.
"Police have had contact with Mr Xue and Anan Liu over the past 12 months over family violence incidents."
A house was sealed off by police in the Auckland suburb of Mt Roskill, where Liu had been living, and her car was found at Auckland airport.
The girl's father, a magazine publisher and martial arts expert, arrived in New Zealand from China about 10 years ago.
He reportedly met compatriot Anan Liu about five years ago when she was studying in New Zealand.
The couple separated three months ago but had later got back together, newspapers quoted unnamed friends as saying.
The girl, who before being identified was nicknamed Pumpkin after the brand of clothing she was wearing when found by police, is being looked after by a foster family in Melbourne.
Melbourne police said she was doing "very well," but had been asking for her mother.
New Zealand police have been looking for 27-year-old Anan Liu since her daughter Qian Xun Xue was found alone, crying on the platform of Melbourne's Southern Cross Railway Station on Saturday.
Security camera footage at the station showed her father, Nai Zin Xue, 54, walking hand in hand with her through the station. After bending down to say something to her, he walked away, wheeling a suitcase behind him.
The father and daughter had flown from Auckland, where they live, on Thursday and Xue is believed to have flown on his own to Los Angeles on Saturday, police said.
Police in Auckland have stepped up their attempts to find Liu.
They said they were worried that neither the girl or her mother had been reported missing.
"Based on the information we have collated, we're concerned that Anan has not been able to contact us in relation to her daughter," said the officer in charge of the case, Detective Senior Sergeant Simon Scott.
"Police have had contact with Mr Xue and Anan Liu over the past 12 months over family violence incidents."
A house was sealed off by police in the Auckland suburb of Mt Roskill, where Liu had been living, and her car was found at Auckland airport.
The girl's father, a magazine publisher and martial arts expert, arrived in New Zealand from China about 10 years ago.
He reportedly met compatriot Anan Liu about five years ago when she was studying in New Zealand.
The couple separated three months ago but had later got back together, newspapers quoted unnamed friends as saying.
The girl, who before being identified was nicknamed Pumpkin after the brand of clothing she was wearing when found by police, is being looked after by a foster family in Melbourne.
Melbourne police said she was doing "very well," but had been asking for her mother.
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