This is Where Our Culture of Fear Leads

This is a display of a seriously fucked up worldview ....

(CNN)A 6-year-old boy in Missouri endured an emotional four-hour staged kidnapping because his family thought he was being too nice to people he didn't know, police said Thursday.

The four people involved in the alleged plot -- the boy's mother, grandmother, aunt and a co-worker of the aunt -- have been charged with kidnapping and other felonies, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said.

"Family members told investigators their primary intent was to educate the victim and felt they did nothing wrong," the press release said.

During his reported ordeal the boy was lured Monday into a pickup after getting off his school bus, tied up, threatened with a gun, taken to a basement where his pants were removed, and told he could be sold into sex slavery, police said.

The boy was told in the truck by Nathan Wynn Firoved, the aunt's co-worker, that he would never "see his mommy again," and he would be "nailed to the wall of a shed," the sheriff's statement said.

The boy started to cry, police said, and Firoved, 23, showed the child a gun and said he would be harmed if he didn't stop bawling. Firoved used plastic bags to tie the child's hands and feet, police said. He took his jacket and covered the boy's head so he couldn't see.

He guided the boy, still unable to see, into the basement of the mother's home, where his 38-year-old aunt took off the boy's pants, according to the sheriff's statement.

"The victim remained in the basement for some time before he was unbound and told to go upstairs, where the victim's family lectured him about stranger danger," the statement said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/05/us/missouri-fake-kidnapping/index.html

No...this is where stupid leads. Yep, sure taught the kid a lesson, didn't they? Look, son, this is how your mother gets arrested for kidnapping.

However, the threat of someone stealing your child is real. I know this because over a year ago, a 61-year-old man tried to walk away from the flea market with my granddaughter, who was 5 at the time. I kept silent about it because, at first, my daughter didn't even tell me, and then it became a matter for the courts. This is basically what transpired: 1) the sheriff's office went to the guy's house and took his word for what happened. Translation: they did nothing.
2) my daughter was pregnant and had a new baby.
3) they finally went to the state attorney, who issued a warrant, but the man was not picked up until he was spotted at the same flea market.
4) so, over a year later his attorney, who had asked for a jury trial, decided to ask the judge to hear the case instead...wrong move...there was an independent eye witness.
5) the man was found guilty of battery and sentenced to 1 year probation.

Thank God he didn't get any further.

Sal wrote:This is a display of a seriously fucked up worldview ....

(CNN)A 6-year-old boy in Missouri endured an emotional four-hour staged kidnapping because his family thought he was being too nice to people he didn't know, police said Thursday.

The four people involved in the alleged plot -- the boy's mother, grandmother, aunt and a co-worker of the aunt -- have been charged with kidnapping and other felonies, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said.

"Family members told investigators their primary intent was to educate the victim and felt they did nothing wrong," the press release said.

During his reported ordeal the boy was lured Monday into a pickup after getting off his school bus, tied up, threatened with a gun, taken to a basement where his pants were removed, and told he could be sold into sex slavery, police said.

The boy was told in the truck by Nathan Wynn Firoved, the aunt's co-worker, that he would never "see his mommy again," and he would be "nailed to the wall of a shed," the sheriff's statement said.

The boy started to cry, police said, and Firoved, 23, showed the child a gun and said he would be harmed if he didn't stop bawling. Firoved used plastic bags to tie the child's hands and feet, police said. He took his jacket and covered the boy's head so he couldn't see.

He guided the boy, still unable to see, into the basement of the mother's home, where his 38-year-old aunt took off the boy's pants, according to the sheriff's statement.

"The victim remained in the basement for some time before he was unbound and told to go upstairs, where the victim's family lectured him about stranger danger," the statement said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/05/us/missouri-fake-kidnapping/index.html

This story is incredibly nauseating! I hope the child was removed from these pathetic family members who sought to traumatize this child to prove a point. Who knows whatever else they do to the child w/ their sick parenting.

Floridatexan wrote:
No...this is where stupid leads.  Yep, sure taught the kid a lesson, didn't they?  Look, son, this is how your mother gets arrested for kidnapping.  

However, the threat of someone stealing your child is real.  I know this because over a year ago, a 61-year-old man tried to walk away from the flea market with my granddaughter, who was 5 at the time.  I kept silent about it because, at first, my daughter didn't even tell me, and then it became a matter for the courts.  This is basically what transpired:  1) the sheriff's office went to the guy's house and took his word for what happened.  Translation:  they did nothing.
2) my daughter was pregnant and had a new baby.
3) they finally went to the state attorney, who issued a warrant, but the man was not picked up until he was spotted at the same flea market.
4) so, over a year later his attorney, who had asked for a jury trial, decided to ask the judge to hear the case instead...wrong move...there was an independent eye witness.
5) the man was found guilty of battery and sentenced to 1 year probation.

Thank God he didn't get any further.  

Why was the guy just charged w/ battery and not attempted kidnapping?

That's a very good question for which I have no real answer...no priors...young inexperienced prosecutor...well known local attorney...but no real answer.