An American woman arrested in Ottawa for allegedly abducting her biological twin toddlers from their adoptive parents was returned to the U.S. Monday by police.

In an Ottawa court Monday, 49-year-old Allison Quets waived her right to an extradition hearing and her right to face only the single U.S. federal charge of international kidnapping that led to her arrest.

Alison Quets waived her right to an extradition hearing in Canada and was returned to the U.S. on Monday.
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Crown prosecutor Jamie Bocking said that with the exception of a very minor procedure, "the Canadian judicial system is finished its dealings with Ms. Quets."

As of noon, Ottawa police and RCMP officers were driving Quets to the border, Bocking said.

"She'll be transferred into the custody of American officials as soon as possible."

The 18-month-old twins have already been returned to their adoptive parents.

Quets's lawyer in Canada, Jeff Schroeder, said she will likely be taken to a Federal Court in Syracuse, N.Y., where a lawyer will help her return to North Carolina.

She could be tried on state charges in addition to the federal charge because of the rights she waived in court.

"I'd rather have fewer charges levelled against them than more," Schroeder said, "but I think it's a tribute to her that it means so much to her to go back and also to fight for her children through the civil courts in the United States that she was willing to return voluntarily and forgo that protection."

Quets, of Durham, N.C., and Orlando, Fla., was arrested on Dec. 28 after U.S. authorities issued an arrest warrant.

At the time, she was with her children. She was accused of abducting them from their adoptive parents.

Quets has been fighting to regain custody of the children since she gave them up for adoption, following a pregnancy with life-threatening complications.