HORRIBLE: 6-Year-Old’s Family Plans Fake Kidnapping to “Teach Him a Lesson”

by Sierra Marlee | February 6, 2015 4:12 pm

As a child, you’re taught the phrase “stranger-danger” to remind you not to talk to people you don’t know. Well, one family didn’t think their 6-year-old relative was getting the point and thus planned to stage a fake kidnapping to “scare him straight” so to speak.[1]

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From Fox 8[3]:

A 6-year-old boy in Missouri endured an emotional four-hour staged kidnapping because his family thought he was being too nice to people he didn’t know, police said Thursday.

The four people involved in the alleged plot — the boy’s mother, grandmother, aunt and a co-worker of the aunt — have been charged with kidnapping and other felonies, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said.

“Family members told investigators their primary intent was to educate the victim and felt they did nothing wrong,” the press release said.

During his reported ordeal the boy was lured into a pickup after getting off his school bus, tied up, threatened with a gun, taken to a basement where his pants were removed, and told he could be sold into sex slavery, police said.

The boy was told in the truck by Nathan Wynn Firoved, the aunt’s co-worker, that he would never “see his mommy again,” and he would be “nailed to the wall of a shed,” the sheriff’s statement said.

“The victim remained in the basement for some time before he was unbound and told to go upstairs, where the victim’s family lectured him about stranger danger,” the statement said.

KTVI reports[4] the boy was also bound at the hands and feet with plastic bags. The boy’s aunt reportedly chastised the child for not trying to resist during the ordeal.

The suspects kept each other updated throughout the incident on cell phones, police said.

The boy’s mother, Elizabeth Hupp of Troy, is charged with felony kidnapping and felony abuse and neglect of a child. The grandmother, Rose Brewer; the aunt, Denise Kroutil; and Firoved are also charged with felonious restraint.

The boy was placed into protective custody after he told school officials Wednesday what had happened to him.

I don’t even know where to begin with this. It’s understandable that one person might be screwed up enough to do this, but to find three other people who think “hm, fake kidnapping a kid? What could go wrong!” is completely unfathomable. That poor child deserved a much better family.

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