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SHOCK: Idaho man’s sentence reduced to probation despite kidnapping minor and coercing her to abort
Live Action News ^ | March 16, 2025 | Cassy Cooke

Posted on 03/17/2025 12:33:24 PM PDT by Morgana

Over one year after taking his 15-year-old girlfriend out of Idaho and into Oregon for an illegal abortion, Kaidyn Swainston — 18 at the time of the incident — had his sentence reduced to probation only, after originally being sentenced to five years in prison.

In November of 2023, Swainston and his mother, Rachael, took a 15-year-old girl known as K.B. to Oregon for an abortion. At the time, Swainston was 18, and he was charged with second-degree kidnapping, rape, and three counts of producing child sexually exploitative material. Rachael, meanwhile, was charged with trafficking methamphetamine, two counts of possession of a controlled substance (one for fentanyl and one for psychedelic mushrooms), and one count of harboring a wanted felon. Neither were charged under Idaho’s abortion trafficking law, despite claims from abortion advocates.

K.B.’s mother, Ashley Diamond, contacted police and reported that her daughter had been raped, and taken to Oregon without her permission. After K.B. and the Swainstons were located, K.B. told authorities that she became pregnant after Swainston turned 18, and that she was happy about the baby. Swainston, however, told her she needed to have an abortion or he would leave her, and also refused to pay child support. As K.B. was living with the Swainstons at the time, this insinuated that she could potentially face homelessness if she did not comply with his demands. K.B. wanted to tell her parents, but Rachael said if she did, she would be kicked out of the house.

Rachael scheduled a chemical abortion at a Planned Parenthood facility in Oregon, where she was also treated for several sexually transmitted diseases. Afterwards, K.B. said the relationship went sour, with both Swainstons beginning to “pick at everything she did and make her feel like everything she did was wrong.” They also kicked her out of their home, despite having had the abortion.

Both Swainstons originally faced time in prison, but in October, Sixth District Judge Rick Carroll suspended Swainston’s five year prison term, and gave him just six years of probation instead. The plea deal included dismissing the charges of felony second-degree kidnapping and producing child sexually exploitative material.

Swainston had to plead guilty to rape as part of the deal, though he will not be required to register as a sex offender.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: abortion; botchedabortion; botchedabortions; idaho; oregon; plannedparenthood; prolife

1 posted on 03/17/2025 12:33:24 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Twotone

Oregon ping


2 posted on 03/17/2025 12:35:09 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
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To: Morgana

Guessing judge and prosecuter must be on the epstein list.


3 posted on 03/17/2025 12:36:39 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Morgana

Wouldn’t want to be Kaidyn Swainston in Idaho or Oregon they may never find the body.


4 posted on 03/17/2025 12:39:02 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: If You Want It Fixed - Fix It

Funny how we are starting to figure those things out very quickly!


5 posted on 03/17/2025 12:39:21 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
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To: Morgana

15-year-old girl was living with her 18-year-old boyfriend and his mother. Yet the girl’s mother seems surprised at the pregnancy and abortion.


6 posted on 03/17/2025 12:42:21 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Morgana

Idaho Falls man charged with trafficking gets probation

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/4303185/posts


7 posted on 03/17/2025 12:44:07 PM PDT by algore
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To: Tell It Right

My thought exactly.

Why was this 15yo girl allowed to live with her boyfriend? Why was she afraid to be kicked out? Couldn’t she return to her mother?

It sounds like a bad situation all around. And pressuring this girl to have an abortion was horrible.

But, is it rape? The 18yo was 17 when his 15yo girlfriend moved in. He was facing a life sentence for ‘rape’ because he turned 18.

Some more information:

https://nypost.com/2023/11/02/news/idaho-teen-mom-charged-over-15-year-old-girls-abortion/

https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/crimes_court/police-young-man-his-mother-arrested-after-teenage-girl-raped-and-transported-across-state-lines/article_ddfc61dc-7775-11ee-82d5-1fc7cd944825.html


8 posted on 03/17/2025 1:20:35 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: conservative_cyclist; ten18; Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; ...
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
9 posted on 03/17/2025 1:43:17 PM PDT by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: Morgana; Twotone

“Swainston had to plead guilty to rape as part of the deal, though he will not be required to register as a sex offender.”

Why have any laws at ALL? Yeesh! And why wasn’t ‘Grand-Mommy Dearest’ charged with anything?!?!

Luckily this young girl got her STDs taken care of. Hoping she learned a VALUABLE LESSON about lying down with a DOG and his b*tch of a ‘mother.’

This is infuriating!


10 posted on 03/17/2025 1:50:44 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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