Kids kidnap 1-year old

[jmb]

Sisters, ages 10 and 12, arrested for abducting neighbor’s toddler
(http://www.examiner-enterprise.com/articles/2007/07/06/news/state/news307.txt)
ENID (AP) — Detectives arrested a 12-year-old girl and her 10-year-old sister on a kidnapping complaint on Thursday after they allegedly abducted their neighbor’s 1-year-old son and held him for $200,000 ransom.

The criminals are getting younger and braver.

[dream member]

Ok- I'm going to need the stupid kid stories to stop now...WTF is going on? 11 y/o on a dui- 12 y/o and 10 y/o kidnapping- and some other punks forcing a child to rape his mother............I better keep my thoughts to myself now! :)

[jmb]

I'd like to know the same thing. I'd certainly know if my 13-year old daughter was getting drunk before driving to pick her sister up or if she was awake at 5:30 a.m. to kidnap the neighbor's baby. I just don't get it. These are kids, not pets. Why aren't the parents more aware of what's going on?

[Elle May]

I can't believe people are this out of touch with their young children.:poke:Time for some folks to wake up!!

[wilebill]

Curses! Foiled by mom!

[Astra]

This one sounds like the girls may have been imitating something they had seen elsewhere. Definitely a "where the heck were the parents?!?!" situation, but I'd say there's a good chance in this case they aren't dealing with hardened criminals, just kids who did something monumentally stupid.

[wilebill]

I know it's easy to ask, "where were the parents", but I can remember when I was a kid I snuck out of the house lots of times, although I didn't kidnap anyone. I snuck into girls' houses. They snuck out of theirs. I did all sorts of crazy things in the wee hours of the morning when everyone else was asleep.

Does every parent know for sure what their kids are doing at 5:30 in the morning, when the last time you saw them they were in the bed?

[Astra]

True, Wilebill. I guess I always think in terms of the houses my family has lived in where it would have been near-impossible to sneak out.

[jkspatty]

Excuse me for being simplistic here because I know how people like to over examine reasons, causes, etc.. for certain behaviors but lots of these kids need a good ole fashioned ass beating.