Mo. Family Stages Kidnapping To Teach Boy “Stranger Danger” Lesson
A Missouri family has been charged with numerous crimes, including felony kidnapping, after they allegedly tried to teach a six-year-old relative about “stranger danger”.
The family told authorities the only way they could teach the six-year-old that he was way too nice was to “stage” a frightening fake kidnapping. The plot involved covering the child’s face, tying his hands and threatening him with a gun.
Authorities said the boy told the school, who called police.
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office were called, and said the boy’s aunt 38-year-old Denise Kroutil talked with a gas station attendant to help the family with the scheme. Police said the aunt told them the boy was too nice and needed to be scared. 25-year-old Elizabeth Hupp is the boy’s mother, and she along with the grandmother Rose Brewer, 58, decided to partake in the incident.
The recruited attendant – Nathan Wynn Firoved, 23 – put the family’s plan into action. No one, except for the aunt, knew the man’s last name. Police said Firoved allegedly waited for the boy to get off the bus and lured him into his truck on Feb. 2. Once inside, the little boy was threatened.
Police said Firoved told the boy he’d never see his mom again and would be nailed on a shed wall. When the boy began to cry, the 23-year-old showed the boy his handgun. He used plastic bags to tie the boy’s hands and feet and used a jacket to cover his face. Firoved drove the boy around and returned him, unknowingly, to his house where the aunt was at.
For four straight hours, the family took turns terrorizing him. The family – mother and grandmother – used a cellphone to keep in touch with Firoved.
Kroutil, the boy’s aunt, pull the little boy’s pants down and said he’d be sold into slavery. When there was no resistance from the boy, Kroutil got extremely upset. After a sometime, they left the 6-year-old alone – unable to see anything and tied up. During that time, they called it all off.
When they untied him, he was told to go upstairs and heard a lecture about “stranger danger”. Police said the family doesn’t think they did something wrong because they’re trying to teach him the dangers.
The boy is in protective custody. Firoved as well as Kroutil and Brewer were charged with child neglect, felonious restraint and felony abuse, and felony kidnapping. Hupp was charged with child neglect, felony abuse and felony kidnapping. Each one is being held on a $250,000 cash bail.
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