EDMUND FLEET v. ERICKA FLEET.

This appeal presents us, for the first time, -with an opportunity to interpret the parental kidnapping statute, D.C.Code § 16-1022 (2012 Repl.), and to provide needed guidance on what the statute requires in terms of proof.1 The operative facts in this case are simple and undisputed: In contravention of a court instruction, Ms. Fleet went to Mr. Fleet’s workplace, with their fourteen-month-old daughter, with the intent to surreptitiously take the car that Mr. Fleet had been using. The car was parked in the parking lot in front of THEARC (Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus), a…