STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Police say father's car was found near where the boat was stolen
- Mother believes the suspect is sailing to Thailand or Mexico
- "Anybody who has a boat. Please look for my children," mother says
"I want the Coast Guard.
The Navy. Anybody who has a boat. Please look for my children and bring
them back to me. I am afraid my children's lives," Jennifer Nipon , the
children's mother told CNN affiliate KPIX.
The father, Christopher
Maffei, 43, abducted his three-year-old daughter and two-year-old son
from Hipon's south San Francisco home on Tuesday, according to the San
Francisco Police Department.
On Wednesday, Maffei's
rental car was found in the parking lot of the same Alameda marnia where
a 44-foot sailboat had been stolen, police say.
Officers also learned
that two weeks earlier Maffei and the children had visited the owner of
the stolen sailboat and inspected the vessel to inquire about buying it.
"An extensive air and ground search was conducted ... but the vessel was not located," the San Francisco police said.
Nipon said she believes
Maffei is headed to Thailand or Mexico because he lived in Thailand
before and also said in the past he wanted to take the children to
Mexico.
"He got a sailboat and he's somewhere out there in the ocean. I am not sure where he is right now," the distraught mother said.
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