http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_83691380-bf3c-58de-8792-ebbb210ee0ea.htmlLincoln County. A 6-year-old boys mother, grandmother and aunt are accused of staging a kidnapping, then holding the child for four hours to teach him about stranger danger. They hatched the plot to scare the boy because they said he was too nice to people, police said. The boys mother, Elizabeth Hupp, grandmother, Rose Brewer, and aunt, Denise Kroutil, engaged the help of Nathan Firoved, who worked with Kroutil at a gas station.
Firoved, Brewer, 58, and Kroutil, 38, were charged Thursday with felony kidnapping, felonious restraint, and abuse or neglect of a child. Hupp, 25, was charged with felony kidnapping and abuse or neglect of a child... Police were alerted Wednesday, after the boy told school officials... The school contacted the Division of Family Services.
All those charges are an over-reaction on the part of law enforcement--although there should be some negative consequences. Reactions anyone?