Posted on 09/18/2006 7:18:45 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
The attorney for the Maine couple accused of kidnapping their pregnant daughter called the incident a terrible family misunderstanding.
NewsCenter 5's Rhondella Richardson reported Monday that Nicholas and Lola Kampf of North Yarmouth, Maine, appeared by a video monitor in a New Hampshire courtroom.
They are accused of tying up their 19-year-old pregnant daughter, throwing her in the trunk of their car and heading to New York for an abortion on Friday. Officials said that the couple did not approve of the unborn baby's father.
"Both individuals continued to threaten to kill the victim, the father of the unborn child and his family," prosecutor Ryan McFarland said. "If you read in the affidavit, she was tied up. The officer writes in his affidavit that the ties were released when she got into Salem, (N.H.)." Katelyn Kampf was able to escape and call police when they stopped at a shopping plaza in Salem. She told officials in Maine that her parents assaulted her after she told them that she was pregnant.
Defense attorney Mark Sisti said that it was a misunderstanding.
"They did not attack or terrorize Katelyn. It was cordial conversation in the car," Sisti said. Nicholas and Lola Kampf were each held on $100,000 bail, and the couple has been ordered not to have contact with their daughter.
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That happens with age. You eat the same so weight is usually similar. You start to use the same facial expressions and actually sometimes think the same thoughts. Scary huh? :')
That's wonderful. We fought hard for my oldest little grandchild. He tested in kindergarten last year at 3rd grade level. Not quite as high as yours but still impressive, huh?
It sounds like you will have your hands full with your grandson :)
If this was a kidnapping, Going to a strip mall on rte 28 was a bad idea. It is a very very busy area on the Mass/NH line.
I also wonder what they thought they would do once they reached NY. Hold a gun to the doctors head?
Weird story.
I read this story earlier but it just occurred to me -- how do we know the parents really tied up the kid, put her in the trunk of a car, etc.? A priori, it sounds like the parents are good, well-off people, and the daughter a slut cavorting with criminals.
How do we know she didn't make the whole thing up?
"I also wonder what they thought they would do once they reached NY. Hold a gun to the doctors head?"
I want to hear him explain.
I just can't get over the gun.
I am in North Carolina and I don't know anyone that goes for a gun, especially with their children.
JMO but I think this was a family fight that was not going to end in abortion. No legal doctor could force her. More than likely if she had not called the police there would have been wailing and crying about what she was doing to them but in the end they would have returned home. I suspect the daughter is just as dramatic. I don't buy the trunk story.
He's a business man. He probably carries.
Yeah, I guess you got us northerns all figured out, huh?
Nice way to start your FR career.
This article was in the Portland news.
The Kampfs moved to Maine from New York in the mid-1980s, a
They renovated the State Theatre on Congress Street in the early 1990s, turning what had been used as an X-rated theater into a concert venue.
The Kampfs sold the venue in 1999, along with other properties they owned in Portland, including the Oak Leaf Inn at Oak and Free streets, the Perry Building at Oak and Congress streets and a parking lot on State Street.
The Kampfs live at 64 Country Lane in North Yarmouth, at the end of a private, gravel street where neighbors on Sunday said the two kept to themselves.
Their home is currently on the market for about $850,000, Dion said. He said police visited the property and spoke to neighbors this weekend, but did not enter the Kampfs' home.
Sounds like the story of a lot of teenaged girls who are forced into abortion by their parents. The parents don't want the shame of having an illegitimate grandchild. In this couple's case, that was compounded by the child being half-black.
I have a cousin who was kicked out of the house by her father because she got pregnant by a black man. They live in MS, where it is still not looked upon too kindly by a lot of folks. It took almost 10 years for my uncle to accept his grandchild, but now they are the best of friends. She's never married the father, though they have lived together ever since their son was born. She's not in any hurry to get married, but I've never asked her why. That's her business. As long as the child is content, and doing well, that's up to them
I PMed you.
"Why would they do this and then untie her and let her go into a shopping mall?"
They are stupid.
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