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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Still are.
Democrats were killing their infants?
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
Well, except for cerebral anoxia, amputations and drinking bleach.
My father ensured my understanding of “embarrassing” during my teen years.
And Paul, I learned about ‘infanticide’ by being a Democrat in my 20s.
Paul C …vis a vis “custodial family”…was the deranged aunt and a stranger those custodial parents? Maybe I missed it. If the custodial family was involved, which I presume they were, due to their incarceration, then I can find not sympathy for them…may they rot in Hades, and get their butts beaten severely on the way.
That said, do we have a one off only right to just obliterate such people? If not, we should. (Of course we don’t, but at times is would seem justice.)
I hope when they sentence that Eighth Amendment violating family that they had scared that young man for the rest of his life. I hope the doctors help him without using drugs or a headshrinker. Most of them do more harm to the tender mind of a youth, I think most of them call themselves doctors just to get money from the government and people who want to trust someone.
The best possible help he can get is for someone that loves him truly to talk to him about how he is feeling.
Living with an abuse history is hard enough without the courts giving the victim child to a quack. Then he becomes another type of prisoner.
Didn’t have to abuse the kid to get the point across.
But I also like to do “controlled teaching”. I used to warm the motorcycle exhaust to show the kids what gets hot. The wife complained once, but I explained that I was not getting it hot enough to burn them, just enough that they know what to avoid touching…either that or wait till I get back from town & have them grab something REALLY hot & get a serious burn.
Then I told the wife to get some cheap glasses for the kids to learn with, but she was afraid they would drop & break them. I said ALL kids (and some adults) have dropped glasses before…that’s why I want a few cheap ones, we are going to control the situation.
They were always taught to not get upset about the mess, you just need to get it cleaned up…(and showed them how to not get glass splinters.)
Even when the daughter was learning to drive I took her out to the hi-way and she drove all over. Then she asked me which way to drive back home…I asked what she would do if I weren’t there, and then told her that’s what we’re gonna find out. Only hint I gave her was that they put road signs out for a reason. LoL
But ya these people went overboard, you just need to show the kids, not terrorize them.
Aridog – we don’t know just how ‘friendly’ the young man was to strangers. I had a brother who would talk to anybody. He would have been a perfect kidnap victim. Although, I do have to admit, this would not have scared him straight, so to speak. He would have thought of it as a great adventure.
I really think the authorities have over-reached on the kidnapping.
The world is not as scary as the MSM likes us to believe. You see, fear sells, and the MSM have ads to sell, and they do it by scaring people. Are there bad people out there. Absolutely. Are they lurking around every corner? Absolutely not.
I have a 6 year old son and I can understand the motivation to make him more aware of his environment. But I certainly don’t see the wisdom in inflicting upon him the very trauma the ‘lesson’ was meant to help him avoid.
The back story is three generations of inbreeding.
it would be interesting to know the backstory
“You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your family.”
That’s a brutal way to treat a child a lesson. It’s like teaching a kid to not jaywalk by running him over.
But it reminded me of my youth when my grandfather came to the house to visit and my mother was talking to a neighbor next door. Grandpa always showed up with Hershey bars for me and my brother and while handing those out he asked ‘Where’s your mother?’. My brother and I didn’t know, and didn’t care because we knew she was nearby, but grandpa said ‘Let’s go for a ride.’ and my brother and I were glad to go. My mom came back from the neighbor’s and became frantic when she couldn’t find us. She called around to friends and relatives to see if we had scampered off. When she called my grandmother, she told my mother that my grandfather had left to go to our house. Putting it all together they surmised that my grandfather had grabbed us. When we returned shortly thereafter, my grandfather told my mom that he had hoped my mother had learned a lesson about leaving the kids alone to go next door.
That story was recalled often at family gatherings. Grandpa may have been arrested for those same actions in these times though.
Kind of like trying to teach a child that firearms are dangerous by shooting the child. I’ve dealt with the problem of teaching a high functioning autistic child to behave “appropriately” with strangers. And I found a way to deal with that problem that did not involve kidnapping our child.
OMG how could anyone treat a child they claim to love like that. This poor child is now scared for life. What were his parents doing to him that they were afraid to let him talk to stranger. Thank God he told what they did. Hopefully his parents will never be allowed to have contact with him again!
My mom taught me the definition of ‘defenestration’ by tossing me out the bedroom window.
Learning the definitions of ‘wood chipper’ and ‘sepulcher’ were more trying.
Pogo – evidently ‘infanticide’ was not a word that came up?
Never leave imbeciles to pave the road of good intentions.
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Maybe the talks to strangers because he NEEDS to get away from his family.
I do not think you can kidnap your own child if you are the custodial parent(s). The abuse and neglect are on the table though.