By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor
In another example of bizarre and horrific treatments of children by relatives the Lincoln County Missouri Sheriff’s Office accuses a family of staging a frightening kidnapping of their six year old son because they believed he was being too friendly with strangers and needed to be taught a lesson.
Several felony charges later, the family is now being taught that lesson in the county jail.
Deputies say that the child’s aunt, Denise Kroutil, made arrangements for a colleague, Nathan Firoved, to scare the boy by agreeing to stage a mock kidnapping.
Firoved is accused by the sheriff’s office of luring the boy into a car just after he left a school bus. He then took the boy to his residence’s basement where he then told the boy he would “never see his mommy again,” and that he would be “nailed to the wall of a shed.”
The threats continued with allegedly showing the boy a firearm, covering the boy’s head with a jacket, binding his hands and feet, and threatening him as he was crying in distress. And to further add to the horror in the child he pulled down the boy’s pants and proclaimed the boy would be sold into sex slavery.
After this terrible experience the child was eventually released from his restraints and lectured about the dangers of talking to strangers. One can only imagine how horrible strangers must be to this family if this is the sort of loving treatment they believe their son deserves.
The event came to light when the boy reported the incident to school officials who then contacted authorities.
“Family members told investigators their primary intent was to educate the victim and felt they did nothing wrong,” a statement from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said.
News reports state that Firoved, his grandmother, Rose Brewer, and Ms. Kroutil have been charged with kidnapping, restraint, as well as abuse and neglect of a child.
The boy’s mother, Elizabeth Hupp, has been charged with kidnapping and abuse and neglect.
By Darren Smith
Source: BBC News
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Anarchist,
“A degree doesn’t make anyone smart, and it doesn’t make someone’s opinions any more valid outside of whichever specialization they earned the degree in.”
Well said.
happypappy-
“You guys all have these Pedigree degrees and I have 72 credit hours.”
A degree doesn’t make anyone smart, and it doesn’t make someone’s opinions any more valid outside of whichever specialization they earned the degree in.
My son had a hamster named Hambone. The cat knocked apart the hamster trail tubing and bit it’s hind leg and broke it. My son was devastated, but the hamster survived.
Inga,
I felt bad, but I did laugh about that poor hamster. That’s terrible!
Southern Man calls Recruiter beats Day at the Races with Nick and the Hispanics and Women with Good Hearts by far. One was funny. The other set off hathos alarms.
“in the interests of engaging with trollers and keeping the numbers high on this site, I will dismiss the ad hominem attacks as standard trolling tactics.”
Mr Schulte:
If this site is so great, people will figure it out, or alternatively it shouldn’t matter. And indeed sites like twitter and other blog forms are the perfect forum to inquire (troll in your language) minimally (most people have to work for a basic life) about what people in power are doing. Don’t condemn people for testing the waters of free speech in the digital age, but invite them to not troll.
But anytime people question the authors on this site or others, the same authoritarian tendencies y’all claim to condemn rears its ugly self. Almost any comment I’ve made questioning JT or Darren Smith has resulted in a weird personal defense with some sort of intellectual jab at my own knowledge.
“Be not astonished at new ideas (Turley’s needed influence through this blog in your opinion); for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.”
TJustice
Never Heard back from you regarding opine on Occupy Hong Kong.?? 😉 I felt the author was only describing that the movement was having an adverse effect and you felt he was being authoritarian which I felt was far from the truth??????