Kidnapping Round 2

[Masherbrum]

Here you go.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/23/philadelphia.girl/index.html

What the f&*k is wrong with people?!

Masher

[Ripsnort]

Well, now that the press is covering *every* abduction (slow news day obviously) of every child (no, not every child, probably a dozen more were also abducted by fathers who kidnapped their own child in a divorce case, just look at the milk cartons), I'm sure this will be a new fade.

[AKDejaVu]

Kidnapped for a ransom?  That's not an every-day occurance.

Read the article.  I had one immediate observation from it that I found somewhat disturbing.  I'm curious if someone else will pick it up too.

AKDejaVu

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by AKDejaVu
Kidnapped for a ransom?  That's not an every-day occurance.

Read the article.  I had one immediate observation from it that I found somewhat disturbing.  I'm curious if someone else will pick it up too.

AKDejaVu

Was it the fact that a 7 Year old was playing with a 5 year old with no parental supervision, on a monday night?

-Sikboy

[AKDejaVu]

Nah... that's become typical these days.

Describe the kidnappers.

AKDejaVu

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by AKDejaVu
Nah... that's become typical these days.

Describe the kidnappers.

AKDejaVu

Yeah, crossed my mind too, no description of if they were black or white...

[midnight Target]

Weird. The lack of description makes me wonder if they already know who did it.

[Ripsnort]

Erica's kidnappers had actually demanded $150,000. But though on the surface the kidnapping
was about money, the root of the crime was almost certainly drugs, law enforcement sources say.

More specifically, a war between two vicious drug gangs in West Philadelphia.

It was no coincidence, law enforcement sources say, that one of those gangs happens to be run                      by Erica's father and uncle.

Or that the two suspects in the kidnapping happen to be affiliated with the other side.

In the past, drug dealers would pump bullets into each other.

Now, apparently, they kidnap each other's children.

"I don't care if these knuckleheads kill each other," said one investigator. "But not the kids. The kids are innocent hearts."

[Eagler]

drug related ...

be funny if they arrest the parents after looking into why the kid was snatched in the first place...