It was recently reported that a six-year-old boy living in Missouri was kindnapped by members of his own family to teach him a lesson about "being too nice to strangers." The four people involved in the alleged plot -- the boy's mother, grandmother, aunt and a co-worker of the aunt -- have been charged with kidnapping and other felonies. The people behind the plot lured the boy into a van, blind folded him, took his clothes off, threatened him with a gun, and more. While the family members say it was just a fun simulation to educate their victim, the police thought differently. The boy was placed into protective custody after telling his school officials what had happened.
This article relates directly to a kidnapping that occured in the time period that we are studying as a class in APUSH now: The Lindbergh kidnapping. In 1932, the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, had his son kidnapped. While kidnapping is an extremely serious issue, the family in the article above took it way out of context. It's wise to educate people about the dangers of the world, but to take it to the level that they did is sick and demented.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/05/us/missouri-fake-kidnapping/index.html
This is really odd. I understand the parents wanting to teach their child a lesson, but I really think they could have gone about this differently (maybe in a way that is not illegal)
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