Posted on 02/07/2015 6:59:13 AM PST by SamAdams76
If you ever become depressed about how your family doesn't get you, comfort yourself with this: At least you're not part of the Missouri family who staged a fake kidnapping of their own child to punish him for being "too nice."
St. Louis Today reports that a 6-year-old boy's mother, grandmother, and aunt enlisted the help of a local gas-station employee to convince the child he was being kidnapped. Nathan Firoved met the boy at his school bus stop and lured him into his truck, where he told him he would "never see his mommy again," threatened him with a real handgun, tied him up, and covered his face.
But it didn't stop there!
Later, Firoved took the boy — still blindfolded — to the basement of the boy’s home and left him there, authorities said. The boy’s aunt, Kroutil, removed his pants and told him he could be sold into “sex slavery.” She also chastised him because he did not try to resist her. He did not recognize her voice.
The child was kept confined in the basement for an undetermined time before he was untied and told to go upstairs. There his family lectured him about staying away from strangers, police said.
The four adults involved in the horrifying plan were arrested and charged with crimes ranging from felony kidnapping to abuse of a child, and the boy was placed in protective custody. Maybe Detective Benson can adopt him?
Drugs and alcohol involved.
Just goes to show you, just because you can have kids, doesn’t mean you should.
I don’t think their time in prison will be a happy time.
twisted
Obummers voter base.
Wondering why no family names in the article?
Sounds like strangers might be this kid's best hope.
38-year-old Denise Kroutil (aunt); Elizabeth Hupp, 25, mother; and grandmother, Rose Brewer, 58.
Journalism is so awful these days.
Many of the other headlines speak about "parents" of the boy doing this kidnapping, but we have mother, grandmother and aunt.
No father is ever mentioned.
In my opinion, that is the root problem right there.
Three of those pictures are of females? Yikes.
It wasn’t the best decision they could have made, but they didn’t hurt the child, except give him a bit of fright.
He’ll probably recover in a few days.
Other than that, women alone are just as capable of raising children, especially boys. Imagine all the things those women can teach boys without the interference of a man. (It’s all the things they’d wany men to know!)
/sarc
How about some maniacs do that to your kid? Doubt you be talking nonsense.
How is this any different than police staging an unannounced raid on an in-session school for practice?
Off with his third or fourth wife.
These people obviously have zero judgment. ZEEEEE - ROW.
But . . . I attended a presentation a few years ago by an expert in child safety preparedness. He told us something rather horrifying. He said that he and his colleagues did some similar experiments (with the permission of parents and with them watching) where they had “strangers” approach a kid at a playground and try to get them to go with them. They did this AFTER a “don’t mess with strangers” workshop, thinking the kids would be inoculated against putting themselves in danger. Instead what they found was that the kids ALL went with the stranger!! So what they found with this experiment was NOT that “stranger danger” courses do a bit of good. Instead they found that young children just don’t have a clue and you shouldn’t expect them to. I found this very useful info, in dealing with our two young’uns.
Back then, they used the "sleazy man offering candy from his car" stereotype to scare us. But of course that never happened and probably doesn't happen in actual child abduction situations - which is exceedingly rare, as most child abductions are carried out by adults that the child already knows. Such as a vengeful ex-wife who moves out of state to deny the father visitation. Or the ex-husband...or a busybody in-law.
You’re absolutely right that most “abductions” are in fact familial and a custody issue or something like that. But the other still exists. Here in Sonoma County, in the last couple of years we’ve had several instances of men trying to lure young girls into their cars. Luckily all of the girls were slightly older (11 or older) and had the sense to RUN!! But younger kids apparently can’t be expected to apply that lesson when needed.
How about never being able to trust anybody for the rest of your life, or being fearful of some friendly stranger in a social situation suddenly kidnapping you? That’s what he’ll be dealing with.
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