Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Parents try to force an abortion

Story: "A Maine couple upset that their 19-year-old daughter was pregnant tied her up, loaded her in their car and began driving to New York to force her to get an abortion, police said.
The daughter, Katelyn Kampf, escaped Friday at a shopping center and called police, who arrested her parents, Nicholas Kampf, 54, and Lola, 53, of North Yarmouth, Maine. They were jailed on a kidnapping charge and were being held on $100,000 bail each.
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"Her parents chased her out into the yard, grabbed and tied her hands and feet together," Salem Police Officer Sean Marino wrote in a court affidavit. "Katelyn states that her father then carried her to their car and they headed toward New Hampshire."

Investigators said rope, duct tape, scissors and a .22-caliber rifle were found in the Kampfs' Lexus and Nicholas Kampf had a loaded .22- caliber magazine clip in his pants pocket.

The Kampfs were upset that their daughter was pregnant by a man who is now in jail, police said, and before leaving Maine on Friday they had an argument at the parents' home.

"Katelyn stated to me that upon her parents finding out that she was pregnant, they told her she had no choice but to get an abortion," Marino wrote in his court affidavit.

Katelyn Kampf escaped from her parents in Salem after persuading them to untie her so she could use a Kmart bathroom. After her father went into the men's room, she used a cell phone to call for help, then ran to a nearby Staples store, where police found "a hysterical female hiding in the back of the store,"
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I don't know what to make of this... The parents are trying to force an abortion, and the daughter refuses, so they kidnap her to kill the baby in another state? Why????
The only conclusion I can come to: The mother is a militant feminist, the father a wimp who does whatever his wife tells him, and the daughter stuck in the middle trying to save a life.
Still, kidnapping your daughter and threatening her with a rifle strikes me as very wrong.

8 comments:

Matthew Celestine said...

That is a sad story.

TheEarthCanBeMoved said...

That's just flat out appauling.
They should be charged with attempted murder too.

Anonymous said...

Yeah that is sad.
I'm glad she was trying to save an innocent life by not having an abortion.

Anonymous said...

Your very right man, did you get that article from world? That's where i saw it first. hehe

Carey said...

Sheeesh.

RobertDWood said...

Nope, the hat tip goes to Drudge.

Jason, Attempted murder would be a good charge.

Kingdom Advancer said...

Comment Number One: Ironic, isn't it, how someone will react to the fact that their granddaughter's father is in jail? (In other words, they could be going to jail now.)

Comment Number Two: theearthcanbemoved, true, they should be charged with attempted murder, and child abuse/assault/battery, and kidnapping (can you kidnap your own daughter?), and causing emotional stress to a pregnant woman (is that against the law? Somebody help me out.)

Comment Number Three: What to make of it? Go to kingdomadvancing.blogspot.com and read a sort of humorous (and very short) story (titled "Oncoming Train") on how the devil's temptations aren't always logical or clever; sometimes they're just powerful.

www.kingdomadvancing.blogspot.com

TheEarthCanBeMoved said...

Yes it is legally possible t okidnap ones own daughter.