Posted on 02/06/2015 6:44:05 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Authorities say they enlisted help from the aunt's co-worker, who lured the child into his pickup after he got off a school bus Monday.
Authorities said the man told the boy he wouldn't "see his mommy again," and that he'd be "nailed to the wall of a shed," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. He showed the boy a handgun in an effort to make him stop crying, authorities said.
The man tied the child's hands and feet with plastic bags and blindfolded him with a jacket, the sheriff's office said, before he drove the boy to his Troy home. Authorities said the boy was kept in the basement for a while, before untied and told to go upstairs, where he was lectured about staying away from strangers.
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holy cr&p
To say that this was a little extreme would be a gross understatement.
What are they putting in the water over there in Missouri?
scorched earth parenting does seem appropriate to me....
Because whenever a child becomes hysterical after you've threatened his life, nothing serves to calm said child better or faster, than brandishing a weapon.
Waaay overboard. Particularly the part about nailing him to a wall. Sure, this might teach the kid to be careful around strangers. But it might also teach him never again to have much faith in his own parents or in their good judgement.
Every single adult who participated in this “faux-kidnapping” should actually be charged with kidnapping.
Oh good, they WERE charged. Now they need to actually be convicted.
I looked at the mugshots.
They look like some of the white-trashiest white trash to ever earn the moniker white-trash.
Wonder how they plan to teach him about the birds and the bees...
Personally, I think this is the lesson he SHOULD learn. And he'd be wise to learn it soon, because he shouldn't have faith in his parents and he shouldn't trust their judgement - they are cruel and moronic asshats.
Okay, that’s funny. Sick. But funny.
Next week’s lesson is even more fun, Kids! To teach about the dangers of drunk driving, we will force a pint of vodka down your throat. Then we will sit you in the front passenger seat, accelerate to 60 m.p.h., slam on the brakes and eject your body out of the windshield. But wait... there’s more. The following week’s lesson will be even more fun. The topic will be handgun safety. No safety goggles are needed. /s
He will probably be traumatized for life!
Normally I am against the Gestapo-like tactics of the State and Child Protective Services.
But this obviously is not a normal scenario. CPS should swoop in hard.
If I were that kid, I’d never talk to anyone ever again, including my parents.
I’m inclined to withhold judgment without more information.
Fact is the ‘rush’ here is supporting gubmint intrusion into families (kids telling on parents, teachers calling cops, parents arrested as a result) and I can’t judge the harm of the lesson. Again, without more information. In hindsight, I was totally oblivious at 6 y/o and, frankly, I was harmed by a stranger because I did not know better. that was DECADES ago; I cannot imagine the climate in some US cities today other than what I experience vicariously in news accounts or blogs.
As reported (by the liberal MSM, by the way), the moral of their actions may be questionable, but their motivations are that of a caring family. I’m not seeing the criminality...yet (and not that there isn’t...just insufficient info).
but their motivations are that of a caring family
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Please don’t ever care for anyone in my family.
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