Family taught boy about ‘stranger danger’ by kidnapping him at gunpoint, police say

[shrike]

Source: Washington Post

Apparently, the only way to teach a 6-year-old that he’s “too nice” is to stage a terrifyingly cruel fake kidnapping, according to one, now-incarcerated Missouri family.

According to authorities, the elaborate plot involved tying the child’s hands, covering his face and threatening him with a handgun. They say they learned about it on Wednesday through the boy’s school.

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For some four hours, the family terrorized him. Throughout the incident, the boy’s mother and grandmother remained in contact with Firoved by cellphone.

Kroutil, his aunt, pulled down his pants and told the boy he would be sold into “sex slavery.” When he didn’t try to resist her, Kroutil got more upset, according to police.


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[Arkana]

1. Well, I'm sure that in 20 years, the heroin will help with the PTSD.

Hope those parents are proud.

[olddad56]

13. my first thought was that thanks to his parents, he will also learn about PTSD.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

2. Do 6 year olds even know what sex slavery is? Most don't even know what sex is!

And when he didn't try to resist his aunt, (resisting what?) she got more upset? Fucking cruel ass idiot teabaggers!

And don't tell me there's no proof they are teabaggers, the proof is in the pudding!!

[TwilightGardener]

3. A six year old would know what "sex slavery" is?

These people are sick. I hope the child receives the therapy/counseling he most surely will need.

[yurbud]

4. this crowd will do well in prison...

[Ken Burch]

8. Especially when they have to explain the "pulling down the kid's pants" thing.

Inmates are VERY understanding about things like that.

[RKP5637]

9. Starts to make me wonder how much of it was a supposed learning experience versus

using that as an excuse for all this.

[uhnope]

5. not sure whether to laugh or cry at human stupidity

[Ken Burch]

6. Great-they've turned the kid into a future school shooter.

"Traditional Family Values" at their best.

[KamaAina]

10. O. M. F. G.

[Hulk]

11. How sad we live among such complete idiots....

This blows my mind, but it doesn't surprise me. I keep thinking how "we're #1" is such a joke. We have some of the lamest, most asinine jerk-offs living among us; it's a small wonder we even function as a society. When you consider that 30-40% or less vote for elected officials t represent them and do the government's business; and then we have empty headed neanderthals that think like this; God help us. We are so far from #1, it's damned scary!

[msanthrope]

12. That'll learn him!!!! nt

[Marthe48]

14. Did you mean 'larn' him?

<jk>

[msanthrope]

15. I don't have the right accent for that!! nt

[Marthe48]

25. :)

[Jefferson23]

16. I think I have seen it all now. I was hoping this was from The Onion.

A flaw of nature is that children do not get to choose who their parents will be.

Best wishes for the boy, he will need a great deal of help and love.

[winter is coming]

17. Statistically speaking, the child's more likely to be abducted/mistreated by someone he knows.

Which sadly is what happened here.

[secondwind]

18. unbelievable... some folks really should not reproduce.... n/t

[Teutonic Samuel]

19. Jesus H. Christ!

How fucking DUMB do you have to be?

[Android3.14]

20. For some, a "parenting style"

is just another way to say "fucking stupid idea".

[Sunlei]

21. This is major child abuse.

[SunSeeker]

22. Wow. Just wow.

I feel so bad for that little boy.

[Hekate]

23. No doubt taught him to swim by tossing him off a pier, too. What complete sadistic idiots.

I hope all of them get jail time.

[shenmue]

26. A lot of it!