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SALEM, N.H. -- A Maine couple are accused of abducting their daughter and attempting to force her to get an abortion in New York after learning the father is black, their hometown sheriff said yesterday. Sheriff Mark Dion of Cumberland County, Maine, where the alleged kidnapping occurred, said 19-year-old Katelyn Kampf, who is white, told him yesterday that her parents were upset about the interracial relationship. ``She clearly is still traumatized by the event," Dion said. ``It is difficult for her to appreciate that her parents did what they did, although it's not a surprise to her, based on other...

A Maine couple was ordered held Monday on $100,000 bond each after police said they became so infuriated their 19-year-old daughter was pregnant, they tied her up, loaded her into their Lexus and headed to New York to force her to get an abortion. Real estate developer Nicholas Kampf, 54, and his wife, Lola, 53, of North Yarmouth, Maine, were arrested at a shopping center in Salem on Friday after their daughter, Katelyn, escaped by persuading her parents she needed to use the restroom and called police. They were arraigned Monday on kidnapping charges. The alleged abduction began with an...