I came home unexpectedly on New Year’s Eve and found my wife barely recovering from surgery, with almost no food in the house and our newborn twin sons left without enough warmth. But what I discovered after checking the security cameras exposed a shocking betrayal by my own family—and soon, I was filing a police report.

“Where are my wife and sons?” I asked as I unlocked the front door, but the only answer was the faint, weak cry of two newborns echoing from the kitchen. It was almost 11:30 PM on New…