A Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, father is facing kidnapping charges after he took his six kids to avoid Child & Youth Services, authorities said.

Robert Christensen Jr. was charged with kidnapping, interfering with child custody, concealing the whereabouts of a child and obstructing justice after he allegedly kidnapped his children on Wednesday night after learning CYS was going to take "emergency custody" of them, CBS affiliate WHP reported .

The 36-year-old Lancaster County man abused his kids, who are ages 4 to 11 years old, authorities told the news outlet. When he allegedly learned CYS was coming, Christensen told the mother of the children in a phone call, "That isn't happening," and drove away with the kids from their West High Street home in Elizabethtown Borough, WHP repo

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