Posted on 09/19/2006 12:23:45 AM PDT by raccoonradio
A Maine couple was ordered held Monday on $100,000 bond each after police said they became so infuriated their 19-year-old daughter was pregnant, they tied her up, loaded her into their Lexus and headed to New York to force her to get an abortion.
Real estate developer Nicholas Kampf, 54, and his wife, Lola, 53, of North Yarmouth, Maine, were arrested at a shopping center in Salem on Friday after their daughter, Katelyn, escaped by persuading her parents she needed to use the restroom and called police. They were arraigned Monday on kidnapping charges.
The alleged abduction began with an argument earlier Friday at the parents' home, police said.
"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."
At some point, Katelyn Kampf managed to hide her father's cell phone in her pants, police said. When Nicholas Kampf couldn't find the phone, he stopped in Salem to buy a temporary phone, and that's when his daughter sought permission to use the restroom, according to police.
Authorities found her parents circling the shopping center parking lot in their car. When police stopped them, Lola Kampf opened the door, and an officer saw rope, duct tape and scissors, police said.
Salem Police Prosecutor Scott McFarland said that during the more than two-hour car trip from Maine through New Hampshire and Massachusetts, the parents repeatedly "threatened to kill the victim, the unborn child, the father and his family."
Defense attorney Mark Sisti said there was no evidence of any threats. In fact, he said during the arraignment Monday, Katelyn Kampf told police she was not hurt during the trip and that she and her parents "had been talking cordially," Sisti said, reading from a police affidavit.
"What we're dealing with here is a terrible family tragedy with some unfortunate misunderstandings and some overreaction, perhaps on all sides -- but not an attempt to terrorize anybody," he said.
Judge John Korbey set bail at $100,000 cash or bond for each of the Kampfs and ordered them to have no contact with their daughter. He also ordered them to turn in their passports and forbade them to leave New Hampshire or Maine. They must return to court for a probable cause hearing Sept. 26.
If convicted, the Kampfs face 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison. They also could face charges in Maine or federal charges, because they crossed state lines.
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 and several bullets in his pants pocket.
Katelyn Kampf's boyfriend, 22-year-old Reme Johnson, last week began serving a 6-month theft sentence at Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn, Maine.
Sisti said that based on the police affidavit, there was no evidence Katelyn was tied up while in New Hampshire.
"It's not a kidnapping. She freely went her own way ... without pursuit by either parent," he said.
Authorities in Maine were investigating what led up to the kidnapping, but said the parents apparently thought that, in light of their daughter's stage of pregnancy and differing state abortion laws, the abortion should be performed in New York.
Maine law prohibits the termination of pregnancy after the fetus is able to live outside the uterus unless the mother's life or health is at stake. While the law does not specify an age, it is generally between 20 and 27 weeks of pregnancy, said Dr. Dora Ann Mills, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. New York law prohibits abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy unless the mother's life is at stake.
Salem police declined to say how far along Katelyn Kampf's pregnancy was.
The Kampfs moved from New York to Maine in the mid-1980s, and bought several properties in Portland. They renovated and sold the State Theater several years ago.
video report on this page
http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_261134536.html
sorry, headline should say "Kampf"
>>Katelyn Kampf told police she was not hurt during the trip and that she and her parents "had been talking cordially," (Defense atty.) Sisti said, reading from a police affidavit.
kind of different from the prosecutor version eh?
So what were the Kampfs doing with that stuff, a science fair project?
As in Mein Kampf.
The baby won this round.
Surely a misunderstanding--hey, the parents' attorney said that they were "talking cordially" while in the car!! :)
another video report can be found here from WHDH/7. By the way they got footage of young Katelyn a few years ago...at an
anti-war rally...moonbats all, though she DID want to go through with the pregnancy!
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO28531/
This will probably, and ironically, become the poster case for those campaigning against parental notification laws.
Yeah, everyone keeps a clip of 22's in their pocket when going on a family outing to New York.
I'm inclined to believe the prosecutor's case, unless something comes along to change things.
Families have a way of getting back together over time. One day these grandparents will have to look at their grandchild and live with themselves.
What does this story say for New York, which has abortion laws so liberal you can pack up a woman more than 20 weeks pregnant and head on over there to get the baby killed.
Poor child has a thief for a father, a slut for a mother and grandparents with a few screws loose. Pity the kid.
"This will probably, and ironically, become the poster case for those campaigning against parental notification laws."
LOL! I never thought of that angle.
Isn't that going to be kind of hard to do?
by the way the Globe is reporting that the family is upset because the child's father is a black man.
That is what I figured would be the case. Scum + Scum = big problems.
Ohhh Ho No. Not a black man. Miscegenation. O Lawdeee me.
What a way to enter this world. Unwanted ,Confused, Unsupported . A father in jail who could care less that he left a package in a white girl, a white girl with no support from her parents and certainly not any from the fathers. I hope they can find a good adoption agency. thats about the only chance this poor kid has.
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