Family Fake Kidnapping - A Missouri family have been arrested for kidnapping their 6-year-old for hours and threatening to nail him to a shed and sell him into sex slavery because he was too nice to strangers.
According to the Lincoln County, Mo. Sheriff's Office, the cruel kidnapping plot on Feb. 2. The boy's family sought to teach him an important life lesson because he was being too nice to people.
Reports indicate that the child's aunty Denise Kroutil, 38, concocted a plan and contacted a stranger, working at a gas station to kidnap her nephew. The 23-year-old gas station worker Nathan Wynn Firoved accepted the role he was given.
The boy's mother, Elizabeth Hupp, 25, and grandmother Rose Brewer, 58, also consented to the plan to kidnap the child as a way to 'scare' him because he was 'too nice.'
The family provided Firoved with the necessary information and on Feb.2. he waited for the child to get off the school bus. Then he lured the boy to his truck were things turned ugly.
Firoved reportedly threatened the child that he will never "see his mommy again" and that he would be "nailed to the wall of a shed." When the boy started to cry, Firoved reportedly pulled a handgun on the child.
Afterwards he tied the child's hands and feet with plastic bags and covered his face with a jacket, ensuring that the boy could not see. Firoved then drove around for a while with the scared child in his truck. He eventually drove to the boy's house and took him to the basement where his aunt was.
Kroutil continued to scare the child, she pulled his pants down and told him he would be sold into "sex slavery."
The child was terrorized and frightened for about four hours, his family left him tied up and unable to see before calling off the cruel 'lesson.'
When he was finally freed, they ordered him to go upstairs, where he received a long lecture about "stranger danger."
The incident only came to the attention of authorities after the victim told his teacher what had happened the next day after at school.
On Wednesday, school authorities contacted the Missouri Division of Family Services, who alerted authorities.
Firoved, Kroutil and Brewer have been charged with felony kidnapping, felonious restraint and felony abuse as well as neglect of a child. While Hupp, the boy's mother, is being charged with felony kidnapping and felony abuse and neglect of a child.
They are all still in custody after failing to post a $250,000 cash bail. The child is being placed in protective custody.
The family still think they did nothing wrong , they insist that they were teaching the boy a lesson.
