Posted on 09/17/2006 11:22:50 PM PDT by raccoonradio
A Maine couple is expected to be arraigned today after they allegedly bound their pregnant, 19-year-old daughter with rope at her wrists and ankles and started to drive her to New York for an emergency abortion, police said.
“Kidnapping your adult child for the purpose of her submitting to what should be a voluntary medical procedure . . . is unusual and it’s what distinguishes this case,” said Sheriff Mark Dion of Cumberland County, Maine.
The Herald yesterday incorrectly reported that the teen’s parents, Nicholas Kampf, 54, and his wife, Lola, 53, were trying to prevent their daughter, Katelyn, from going through with a planned abortion.
The young woman, who had been living with the father of her unborn child in Portland, was at her parents’ home in North Yarmouth when a dispute erupted over her pregnancy on Friday, Dion said.
“There was a fracas. The parents tied up her ankles and wrists with rope and loaded her into the vehicle and proceeded south,” said Dion, who noted police believe the Kampfs used something to keep their daughter’s mouth shut during the harrowing ride.
The woman, a former honor roll student at Maine’s Waynflete School, managed to escape when she conned her parents into making a bathroom stop at a shopping plaza on Route 28 in Salem, N.H. The ropes around Katelyn’s wrists and ankles were removed, and she ran to a Staples store where she dialed 911.
Investigators said rope, duct tape, scissors and a .22-caliber rifle were found in the Kampfs’ vehicle and Nicholas Kampf had a loaded .22-caliber magazine clip in his pants pocket.
The couple was being held on $100,000 bail each in the Rockingham County Jail in New Hampshire and may face federal charges because they crossed state lines.
The Kampfs were scheduled to be arraigned today in Salem, N.H., District Court.
“Her parents ... are acting irrational and barbaric at the very least,” said Marie Sturgis, executive director of Massachusetts Citizens for Life. “I think a more reasonable approach would be to calmly sit down and discuss the matter and offer advice.”
Ted Miller, a spokesman for NARAL Pro-Choice America, described the situation as “tragic.”
“We oppose coercion,” he said.
What nutcase parents that poor girl has! No wonder she was looking outside her family for love.
I just wonder how they expected to get the clinic to go along with this. What were they going to do, hold a gun on the doctor?
How unfortunate for the Herald, to have completely reversed the truth.
I believe everything the police say.
yah, right,
nobody is THat stupid
with such a milk-toast remark, I suspicion they don't oppose it.
I said yesterday that I hope someone does an investigation into just WHERE these creeps were taking their daughter that they assumed would perform an abortion under such circumstances.
I would also like to see more investigation into the selling of fetus body parts to medical labs for research...gruesome, yes - but has been reported on. (See the Chris Wallace report at this link - cut and paste:
http://www.nrlc.org/news/2000/NRL05/randy.html
and look at this link that purports Nebraska even has a bill up to ban it - after it was reported to be taking place there:
http://www.nrlc.org/Baby_Parts/NE_bill.html
This link will be even more disturbing:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/abortion/ab0011.html
Time for people to take off the blinders. "As ye have done unto the least of these , my children..."
How long can a country stand that allows this to go on? We cannot claim "I didn't know."
I think this issue is at least as important as the border issue - but do you hear anyone - ANYone - demanding it stop?
As it says in the last link I posted, "Congress and the Clinton administration's lifting of the fetal-tissue research ban has turned human-remains trafficking into big business..." - Does anyone remember a hue and cry over that?
Yet, When Bush comes out against using human fetuses for research - there is a hue and cry against him...
Looks like the left has a couple of new heroes.
A fine set of grandparents this child will have.
/sarcasm
Isn't the misquote the newspapers? Not the Police.
Let us see how much play in the media this story gets. So many women face intimidation and pressure to abort from selfish boyfriends, parents, and peers.
"So many women face intimidation and pressure to abort from selfish boyfriends, parents, and peers."
You are right, it's esp. horrible from parents. And I've even known of husbands coercing their wives into having abortions. However, I've never known of anyone going as far as these folks did. It would be almost unbelievable, except for the ropes, duct tape and guns the cops found.
Yeah it is unbelievable but sometimes people don't have to use ropes and duct tape. They use words and threats of isolation and exclusion to get their way. I have thought for sometime that the whole paranoia that has developed around having children is unfortunate given that in todays modern world it is absolutely unecessary especially in the United States. We waste billions of dollars on trivial bureacratic excess and exclaim with hands thrown up in the air about how we are going to deal with all those unwanted pregnacies as if they are some kind of disease. The horrible part is the clarity of knowing that some with teeth dripping with saliva thirst politically for the death of innocents to feed their personal agenda of transforming the relationships between men and woman into an ongoing war building up selfish individualism that leaves people at the end of their lives even more dependant on the government.
"Katelyn stated to me that upon her parents finding out that she was pregnant, they told her she had no choice but to get an abortion," Marino wrote in his court affidavit.
Katelyn Kampf escaped from her parents in Salem after persuading them to untie her so she could use a Kmart bathroom. After her father went into the men's room, she used a cell phone to call for help, then ran to a nearby Staples store, where police found "a hysterical female hiding in the back of the store," according to the affidavit.
She got into Marino's cruiser while Sgt. Kristin Fili pulled over her parents.
(the story goes on to say that her parents wanted to go to a clinic in NY because there's some kind of Maine law prohibiting abortions to be performed at a certain stage, I believe)
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