The boy’s aunt, Denise Kroutil, 38, asked her coworker, 23-year-old Nathan Wynn Firoved, to stage the kidnapping, telling him, “our [child] is too nice, he’s too open, he’s too polite,” Lt. Andy Binder of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office told NBC News.

The boy’s mother, Elizabeth Hupp, 25, and grandmother, Rose Brewer, 58, went along with the plan.
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After getting off the school bus Monday, the boy was allegedly kidnapped by Firoved, who showed the sobbing boy a gun and told him he would never “see his mommy again” and that he would be “nailed to the wall of a shed,” police said in a statement.

Firoved drove the boy around with his hands and feet bound with plastic bags and his vision obscured with a jacket.
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The child was blindfolded and taken to his home, where he was brought to the basement. His aunt allegedly removed his pants and told him he could be sold into “sex slavery,” authorities said.

The boy’s mother, Elizabeth Hupp, 25,

6 year old

Missouri