It happened in Lincoln, Missouri on Monday and the Lincoln County sheriff’s office said it began as the boy got off his school bus on his way home. The boy’s mother, Elizabeth Hupp, 25, arranged for a 23-year-old Nathan Wynn Firoved, whom her son did not know, to lure the boy into his truck. Firoved works with Hupp’s Aunt, Denise Kroutil, who police say was involved in the plot.
Once in the truck, Firoved told the youngster he would never see his mommy again and that he was going to be “nailed to the wall of a shed.” Naturally the boy started crying and for doing Firoved threatened him more.
Firoved actually showed the boy a gun and he threatened him with it, before tying him up by his hands and feet and throwing a jacket over his head. Unable to see, the boy was driven around for awhile. Eventually Firoved took the boy, unbeknownst to him, to his own home where he was put in the basement. His pants were removed by his Aunt and grandmother, Rose Brewer, and his Aunt, without identifying herself, told the terrified child he was going to be sold into sex slavery.
They left him there, bound like that.
“The victim remained in the basement for some time before he was unbound and told to go upstairs where the victim’s family lectured him about Stranger Danger,” the sheriff’s department said in their statement. “Family members told investigators their primary intent was to educate the victim and felt they did nothing wrong. It is believed the entire event took place over a four-hour period.”
The boy told the story at his school and school officials told police and all four adults were arrested and charged with felony kidnapping. Firoved, Brewer and Kroutil have also been charged with felonious restrain while Hupp has also been charged with felony abuse and neglect of a child. Hupp, like the others, is in jail on a $250,000 bond and the Missouri Division of Family Services removed the boy from her care.
None of the charges have been proven in a court of law.
