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Earlier this week, troopers from the California Highway Patrol rescued a teenage girl whom they found bound and gagged in the back of a car. As it turns out, her father and sister were only acting in her best interest.
Troopers responded to a call about a possible kidnapping taking place, after someone dialed 911 to report having seen a girl in the back of a 2014 Toyota Corolla, bound and gagged. Officers located the car some distance from the original sighting and were able to take the girl into protective custody.
But this was no ordinary kidnapping, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. CHP spokesman Officer Kevin Smale has revealed the extraordinary twist in the story: the alleged kidnappers were the girl’s 67-year-old father and her 21-year-old sister. The girl herself is 17 but she is addicted to meth.
Apparently, the father and sister were taking her across the border, to check her in at a rehabilitation facility in Mexico. They thought tying her up and gagging her was the only way in which they could get her to seek help for the problem she’d been dealing with for more than a year. The teen admitted to the cops having used meth for the past year.
“It was the intent of the father and sister to transport the juvenile to Mexico to a drug treatment facility,” Smale says.
For the time being, an investigation into the incident is underway. The teen remains in protective custody and wasn’t injured in any way during the ride, and the father and sister may end up facing charges. A drug intervention is one thing but whisking away a teen, bound and gagged, in a car across the border, is another – even when it’s done with her best interest at heart.
“Criminal charges are pending against the adult family members,” Officer Smale adds.
But this was no ordinary kidnapping, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. CHP spokesman Officer Kevin Smale has revealed the extraordinary twist in the story: the alleged kidnappers were the girl’s 67-year-old father and her 21-year-old sister. The girl herself is 17 but she is addicted to meth.
Apparently, the father and sister were taking her across the border, to check her in at a rehabilitation facility in Mexico. They thought tying her up and gagging her was the only way in which they could get her to seek help for the problem she’d been dealing with for more than a year. The teen admitted to the cops having used meth for the past year.
“It was the intent of the father and sister to transport the juvenile to Mexico to a drug treatment facility,” Smale says.
For the time being, an investigation into the incident is underway. The teen remains in protective custody and wasn’t injured in any way during the ride, and the father and sister may end up facing charges. A drug intervention is one thing but whisking away a teen, bound and gagged, in a car across the border, is another – even when it’s done with her best interest at heart.
“Criminal charges are pending against the adult family members,” Officer Smale adds.
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