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Mom who reported own abduction is charged
cnn ^ | 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

Posted on 05/27/2009 9:09:59 PM PDT by JoeProBono

A Pennsylvania woman who called 911 to report that she and her daughter had been abducted was charged with making a false report and identity theft after police found the pair at a Disney resort in Florida, authorities said Wednesday. Bonnie Sweeten, 38, told authorities Tuesday afternoon that she and 9-year-old Julia Rakoczy were kidnapped after two men in a Cadillac rear-ended her sport-utility vehicle in Upper Southampton, north of Philadelphia. They were being held in the trunk of the Cadillac, she claimed. Sweeten was arrested late Wednesday at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort in Orlando, Florida, said Michelle Henry, district attorney for Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Sweeten awaits extradition proceedings. Asked what tipped off investigators, Henry said, "It was a combination of different facts that just didn't add up." Sweeten's daughter is in state custody until her biological father picks her up, Henry said.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: abduction; boycriedwolf; boycryingwolf; falsehatecrime; hoax; pa
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1 posted on 05/27/2009 9:09:59 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

This photo released by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, shows Julia Rakoczy. Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for Rakoczy, Wednesday May 27, 2009. Police were searching Rakoczy and her mother Bonnie Sweeten, of Feasterville, Pa., after the mother called 911 Tuesday to report that they had been abducted in by men who rear-ended their car

2 posted on 05/27/2009 9:12:02 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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What do you do with people like this? Maybe she needs some alone time for a while...& some striped pajamas!


3 posted on 05/27/2009 9:12:46 PM PDT by Atom Smasher
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To: JoeProBono

Your mommy is a bad bad mamajama


4 posted on 05/27/2009 9:13:16 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now, NOW)
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To: JoeProBono

Or if you can’t stand giving the CNN website hits, you can read the same article here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522399,00.html
;)


5 posted on 05/27/2009 9:13:29 PM PDT by two23
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To: JoeProBono

“It was a combination of different facts that just didn’t add up.”

1) Found them at Disney?

Good work, Kojak.


6 posted on 05/27/2009 9:13:37 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (doubleplusungood)
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To: Winstons Julia

Hahaha! LOL! Good one, “Kojak!”


7 posted on 05/27/2009 9:14:59 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Winstons Julia

I figured it was fake when she was able to get a cell phone signal while locked in a trunk.

I want a cellphone that will work inside a metal box!


8 posted on 05/27/2009 9:15:38 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 128 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: null and void

I wonder if mine does? I think I’ll go see!

WAIT....that was a TRICK, wasn’t it?


9 posted on 05/27/2009 9:18:14 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (doubleplusungood)
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To: null and void

I’ve used a cellphone inside a metal elevator and only lost the connection every other trip.


10 posted on 05/27/2009 9:19:05 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: JoeProBono

This is a shame. This mom has royally screwed up. But I sympathize with her.

The divorce system pits parents against each other, instead of giving equal time to both.


11 posted on 05/27/2009 9:20:43 PM PDT by DannyTN
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WAIT....that was a TRICK, wasn’t it?

Darn. you're on to me.

12 posted on 05/27/2009 9:20:48 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 128 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: DannyTN
Good point.

*nevermind*

13 posted on 05/27/2009 9:21:41 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 128 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: JoeProBono

Most FReepers thought this story sounded fishy.

FReepers got good sniffers!

:-)


14 posted on 05/27/2009 9:23:01 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (The box is broken. You don't have any choice now but to think outside of it.)
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To: JoeProBono

What an embarrassment to the children.


15 posted on 05/27/2009 9:26:51 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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obtained a driver's license from a co-worker to buy airline tickets to Florida. The mother and daughter traveled under false names. . . .

Artificial Sweeten Air.

16 posted on 05/27/2009 9:28:55 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Sweeten: The Deal.)
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To: JoeProBono

When I heard this story on the radio I threw the BS flag. It was too goofy to be real.


17 posted on 05/27/2009 9:31:37 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Charles Henrickson

I send The Puns Of Death to pummel your head.


18 posted on 05/27/2009 9:39:21 PM PDT by Nick Danger (I am Obama of Borg. Allegiance is futile. You will be capitulated.)
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To: null and void
There was a recent Florida case where a woman did call 911 from inside the trunk of a car after being shoved in there by her abusive ex boyfriend, but there wasn't a whole lot of info she could give the 9/11 operator about where the car was when she called or where it was headed.

That story has been on the air a lot locally so when this new woman resurrects the same story the cops probably knew right away to look for her in Florida.

19 posted on 05/27/2009 9:41:40 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Well, at least the child is safe. But I wonder why the mom had to go through the fakery to take her kid to Disney? Did the Step-Dad not want her to go? Did the real Dad say no? If so, why?

So many questions. Hope we find out soon. I never like the mis-named "Friend-of-the-Court". Talk about a real den of crooks, liars and thieves.

20 posted on 05/27/2009 9:45:33 PM PDT by jeffc (They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, hey-hey, ho-ho!)
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