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Aug 30, 2013
Dec 19, 2023
Kianna
Berg
23
8
54 inches
60 lbs
Other
Female
In the late summer of 2009, a heart-wrenching story began to unfold in Fairfax, Virginia, involving an 8-year-old girl named Kianna Joanna Berg. On August 22, Kianna, a biracial girl of White and Asian descent with brown hair and brown eyes, vanished alongside her older brother, Gunnar. Kianna, who speaks both English and Japanese, was a young child who was taken from her home and familiar surroundings under the guise of a temporary trip. The children's disappearance was not a random act, but a calculated one orchestrated by their non-custodial mother, Naoko Numakami. The children's father, Douglass Berg, was told that his children were merely going on a vacation to Japan with their mother. However, once Naoko Numakami was in her native Japan with Kianna and Gunnar, she refused to bring them back, effectively severing their connection with their father. Since that deceptive departure in 2009, Douglass Berg has reportedly had no contact with his beloved children. The hope of a family vacation turned into the prolonged pain of a parental abduction, leaving a father in the United States to wonder about the well-being of his children in a distant country. As the reality of the situation became clear, the case transitioned from a family matter to a federal crime. On October 15, 2010, a federal warrant for kidnapping was issued for Naoko Numakami, who may also use the last name Berg. This legal step officially recognized the disappearance as an abduction. Despite the warrant and the passage of many years, Kianna and her brother are believed to remain in Japan with their mother. The case is a painful example of international parental kidnapping, where legal jurisdictions and international relations can complicate the path to resolution. The disappearance of Kianna Berg is a story of a childhood interrupted and a family torn apart by the unilateral actions of one parent, leaving a father to hope for the day he might be reunited with his children.
Aug 22, 2009
Fairfax
Virginia
Fairfax County
29000
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Virginia
,
Fairfax County Police
Brown
Brown
Brown
06/15/2026
