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Father Admits Killing 'Sold' Mexican Kids

Dad tells cops he couldn't afford them

(Newser) - A father who first claimed his children had been kidnapped and then said he'd given them away to settle a gambling debt has confessed to murdering them both. Police found the bodies of the Mexico City man's year-old daughter and 2-year-old son wrapped in plastic bags in a park, the...

After 15 Years, Mom Finds Kidnapped Kids on Facebook

Dad charged with kidnapping; daughter breaks off contact

(Newser) - Fifteen years after her husband ran off with their two children, a California woman has located her daughter—on Facebook. The father, who the woman says vowed she'd never see the kids again, has been arrested in Florida, but the story doesn't have a happy ending, reports the San Bernardino ...

Captors Free Americans Abducted in Yemen

Crackdown on kidnappers' relatives leads to quick release

(Newser) - The two Americans kidnapped yesterday near Sanaa, Yemen, have been freed, the Yemeni government tells Reuters . The captors were demanding the release of a jailed relative, but the government arrested numerous other family members to pressure the kidnappers to free the tourists, who are husband and wife. The government did...

American Couple Kidnapped in Yemen

Husband and wife taken along with driver, translator

(Newser) - An American couple was kidnapped today in Yemen by armed tribesmen who are angling for the release of a jailed relative, say security officials there. The group ambushed their car, also snatching the tourists' driver and translator, reports Reuters , which notes that kidnappings are not a rare occurrence in the...

Elizabeth Smart Kidnapper Gets 15 Years

Barzee has already served nearly half her sentence

(Newser) - Wanda Barzee was sentenced to 15 years in prison today for her role in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. Barzee, who pleaded guilty in November, has spent 7 years in jail or a mental hospital during a dispute over whether she was mentally fit to stand trial, the Salt ...

Teen Charged With Kidnapping Teacher

Victim carjacked, forced to withdraw money from ATM

(Newser) - A 15-year-old has been charged in Washington, DC, with kidnapping one of his teachers and forcing her to withdraw money from an ATM. Police say the teen and an adult accomplice ambushed her as she left her part-time job on Saturday morning, forced her into her vehicle, and drove her...

Kidnapped Murder Suspect Will Stand Trial

Victim's father delivered him 'bound and gagged' to France for 27-year-old murder

(Newser) - A French court ruled last week that murder suspect Dieter Krombach, 74, must stand trial, despite the fact he was abducted from Germany, bound and gagged, and driven to France against his will. The kidnapping was arranged by the victim's father, André Bamberski, 72, who says he was driven to...

Facebook Murderer Gets Life
 Facebook Murderer Gets Life 
Mar 8, 2010 4:45 PM CST

Facebook Murderer Gets Life

Rapist used fake profile, posed as 'dad' to lure teen

(Newser) - A repeat sex offender was sentenced to life in prison today for killing a teenage girl he'd lured into a meeting using Facebook. Peter Chapman created a fake profile, complete with a photo of an attractive, bare-chested boy, to gain the attention of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall. The homeless 33-year-old tricked...

ABC Airs Jaycee Dugard Home Video

Dugard speaks, laughs in first TV appearance

(Newser) - A grown-up Jaycee Dugard was seen and heard on TV for the first time today on Good Morning America . Dugard’s mother, Terry Probyn, pleads for privacy and explains that the family released home videos “so that you can see that we're happy and well and when we have...

Haiti Judge Frees 8 of 10 Americans

Two will remain behind for further questioning

(Newser) - A Haitian judge says he decided to free 8 of 10 Americans charged with child kidnapping after their parents testified they voluntarily handed their children over to the missionaries. Judge Bernard Saint-Vil says the 8 are free to leave today without bail or other conditions. He says he still wants...

Jaycee Dugard Diary: 'I Want to Be Free'
 Jaycee Dugard Diary: 
 'I Want to Be Free' 
PLUS, SHE'S BACK NEAR HORROR SITE
Feb 11, 2010 6:41 PM CST

Jaycee Dugard Diary: 'I Want to Be Free'

In excerpts, she yearned for her own life

(Newser) - California prosecutors today made public excerpts of a journal kept by Jaycee Dugard during her 18 years of captivity. The entries show a yearning for freedom but also demonstrate the amount of control Phillip Garrido wielded over her, reports MSNBC . "How can I ever tell him I want to...

Man Charged With Holding, Raping Teen for 6 Months

Buffalo suspect blamed son's burn on runaway

(Newser) - A Buffalo man is charged with holding a 13-year-old runaway in his home for six months, and raping her more than 100 times. Michael J. Abdallah, 26, is jailed on charges of second-degree rape, unlawful imprisonment, and custodial interference. The case came to light after police questioned Abdallah about a...

Cop: Baptists Tried to Grab Haiti Kids Earlier

Group caught with a busload of 40 kids last month

(Newser) - The Baptist missionaries jailed on kidnapping charges in Haiti tried not once, but twice, to take kids out of the country, according to a Haitian police officer. The officer stopped the group last month and ordered some 40 children off their bus as they headed from Haiti to the Dominican...

Baptists Charged With Kidnapping Haitian Orphans

US missionaries detained in Port-Au-Prince

(Newser) - Ten Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake have been charged with child kidnapping and criminal association, their Haitian lawyer said. The Baptist missionaries, most of them members of an Idaho-based church group, were whisked away from the...

Mexico Mulls Twitter Clampdown

'Twitteros' avoid drunk-driving checkpoints, feared to aid drug gangs

(Newser) - There's a new public enemy in Mexico: los Twitteros. Twitter users who warn one another about roadside drunk-driving checkpoints have so angered authorities that the Mexican government is considering restricting and monitoring social networking sites. But in a country in the grips of a violent battle against drug cartels, the...

Parents Reunite With Haitian 'Orphans' Taken by US Group

Haitian prosecutor says Baptists could face conspiracy charges

(Newser) - As 10 Americans wait in a Haitian jail for a court hearing, which a prosecutor says could include criminal conspiracy charges, the children they are accused of trying to spirit out of the country illegally are being reunited with parents. “Many are saying that we have parents,” the...

Phoenix Girl Rescued From Abductor

Natalie Flores found 'alive and well' as cops chase down truck

(Newser) - Phoenix police celebrated what they called a "Christmas miracle" when a 5-year-old girl abducted by a man as she played outside her home yesterday was rescued hours later, after police chased down the suspect's pickup. Natalie Flores was located around 9 pm after a patrol officer spotted the truck...

Colombian Rebels Kill Governor

Kidnap victim Cuellar found with throat cut

(Newser) - A Colombian provincial governor snatched from his home Monday has been found dumped dead on a country road. Police believe leftist guerrillas cut Luis Francisco Cuellar's throat as they fled from security forces. Rebels dressed in military uniforms killed one policeman and wounded two others when they seized Cuellar from...

Afghan Kidnappers Release Guardian Journo

British paper kept abduction secret for Abdul-Ahad's safety

(Newser) - A Guardian reporter and two Afghan journalists are free after being captured six days ago by unknown Afghans while attempting to interview militia in a remote region, the paper reports. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and his unnamed associates were taken hostage near Pakistan’s North-West Frontier province and spent most of their...

Bandits Kidnap 75 From Philippine School

Dozens of children held hostage in southern Philippines

(Newser) - Gunmen seized 75 people, mostly children, during a raid on a remote elementary school in the southern Philippines this morning. The hostages were taken to a forested area, and officials are attempting to negotiate with the armed tribesmen for their release, the BBC reports. The incident is believed to be...

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