Posted on 09/18/2006 10:01:59 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A Maine couple upset that their 19-year-old daughter was pregnant tied her up, loaded her in their car and began driving to New York to force her to get an abortion, police said.
The daughter, Katelyn Kampf, escaped Friday at a shopping center and called police, who arrested her parents, Nicholas Kampf, 54, and Lola, 53, of North Yarmouth, Maine. They were jailed on a kidnapping charge and were being held on $100,000 bail each.
The parents were scheduled to be arraigned in Salem District Court. A call to attorney Mark Sisti was not immediately returned.
"Her parents chased her out into the yard, grabbed and tied her hands and feet together," Salem Police Officer Sean Marino wrote in a court affidavit. "Katelyn states that her father then carried her to their car and they headed toward New Hampshire."
Investigators said rope, duct tape, scissors and a .22-caliber rifle were found in the Kampfs' Lexus and Nicholas Kampf had a loaded .22- caliber magazine clip in his pants pocket.
The Kampfs were upset that their daughter was pregnant by a man who is now in jail, police said, and before leaving Maine on Friday they had an argument at the parents' home.
"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.
"They told us initially they did take her here against her will, but they denied tying her up initially," Fili said. "Obviously what happened was a crime. She was taken against her will."
Authorities in Maine said the parents apparently thought that, in light of their daughter's stage of pregnancy and the different abortion laws in each state, the abortion should be performed in New York. Fili said she did not know how many weeks pregnant she was.
Lol ok I am sure THAT is the reason.
"The Kampfs were upset that their daughter was pregnant by a man who is now in jail, police said, and before leaving Maine on Friday they had an argument at the parents' home. "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."
And what a fine example these parents are...
I hope the daughter doesn't favor either on of them in the looks department.
Good grief! They look like brother/sister twins!
They look like Democrats.
Just noticed this on Drudge. I'm beyond horrified.
What was the gun for? If they couldn't tie her up and get her to the infanticide shop they were going to shoot their daughter?
Just like "Islam is a religion of peace" - "abortion is an issue of CHOICE".
no coercion here, move along...
I'm a tad cynical, but I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe, if Nick and Lola had spent more time teaching their daughter values than they did deciding how to misspell Caitlin, they wouldn't have had to worry about her getting knocked up by a thug.
Those people look deranged.
Deranged doesn't begin to describe it.
A few months, she gives birth, the baby is placed for adoption. End of story.
If she chooses to continue sleeping with a felon, that's her lookout, but it has nothing to do with the innocent child.
They had a Lexus. (Funny how I notice things like that - my reflexive class-warfare tendency :-).
One might expect nutcases to be more low-rent.
Given the terminal stupidity/immorality of such sluts that would not have happened. A ticket to welfare would not have been adopted out. More almost certainly would follow with criminality almost inevitable in train. 80% of federal prisoners imprisoned for serious crimes like murder, armed robbery, rape etc. are committed by the children of OOW births.
That's true, but it's still not the baby's fault, and he/she shouldn't die for it.
But haven't you heard it was all just a "misunderstanding."
LOL!
Of course, they are not the least bit responsible for this situation. They were perfect parents and taught their daughter all about morality.
::::sarcasm off::::
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