The phrase "abducted for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the reasons or motives behind an abduction, typically in a narrative or descriptive manner.
Example: "The authorities launched an investigation after reports surfaced that the child had been abducted for ransom."
Alternatives: "taken for" or "kidnapped for".
The prevalence of symptoms of depression was also high in our sample, with nearly one third of the respondents and 40% of those who experienced abduction meeting the criteria for symptoms of depression (nearly half of those abducted for six months or more).
But their baby son is then abducted for Himmler's 'Lebensborn' programme aimed at producing Aryan 'Uebermenschen'.
Most of those who were abducted for extortion were later freed by Algerian security forces.
According to the 2016 National Crime Records Bureau, 33,855 people were kidnapped or abducted for the purpose of marriage.
Goraya was one of five bloggers abducted for four weeks in January for being critical of the military establishment.
They ought to know [the location of] the Chibok girls, who have been abducted for more than 10 months now".
Last September Umar Cheema, another investigative reporter, was abducted from Islamabad for six hours and tortured before being released.
Black oral history for years featured "night doctors" who abducted children for gruesome experiments, and the folk-beliefs were not entirely irrational.
Last April the decapitated body of Khalil Dale, a British Red Cross doctor, was found near Quetta, three months after suspected militants abducted him for ransom.
He now lives in an undisclosed location after Pakistani intelligence abducted him for three weeks in 2014, an action which he believes the US was behind.
In Somalia, al-Shabaab has abducted girls for domestic and frontline service, as well as to be wives to its fighters, according to Human Rights Watch.
