While children are expected to learn the fact that the world is tough out there at school and home, there's one Missouri household that took things to the extreme recently, and now there's a family fake kidnapping case going in the state where three women are accused of staging the kidnapping of a little boy because he was "too nice."
These women, the mother, grandmother and aunt of the 6 year-old boy, staged an extreme situation to teach the boy a lesson about the world, but the family fake kidnapping obviously went too far, and they're now facing charges for having emotionally tortured the little boy.
According to NBC News, the horrific family fake kidnapping occurred last Monday, after three women in the boy's family enlisted a coworker for help in teaching the kid a lesson about distrusting strangers and not being so nice to them - traumatizing the poor child on the way.
Fox News reports that the family fake kidnapping came to fruition when 38 year-old Denise Kroutil, the boy's aunt, asked her 23 year-old coworker Nathan Wynn Firoved to help her kidnap the 6 year-old to give him a lesson about talking to strangers. Kroutil stated that the boy's mother and grandmother, respectively 25 year-old Elizabeth Hupp and 58 year-old Rose Brewer, were in on the scheme.
The Washington Post reports that Firoved waited until the boy got out of school and lured him into his truck last Monday, and then began threatening him, telling the kid that he'd "nail" him and he'd never see his mom again, even pulling a handgun at the poor child when he started to cry.
He then took the kid to the basement of the boy's house, where his aunt continued the threats, pulling off his pants and telling him he'd be sold to "sex slavery," then leaving him alone until the family thought it was convenient to stop.
The next day, the family fake kidnapping came out when the boy told his school's authorities about what had happened, which prompted the arrest of all involved parties, as he was placed into protective custody.
The four responsible parties of the family fake kidnapping are being charged with felony kidnapping, felonious restraint and felony abuse and neglect of a child.
