In July Kevin Moore a 44-year-old man from Saltburn, Cleveland took a teenager to apologize to a group of children, including his two sons, for acting in a violate and aggressive way.
He followed the 13-year-old boy and put him in his car before driving him for a short distance to a church hall where the younger children were attending a dance class.
Both groups of children apologized after the row, which had started because of an incident about name-calling and throwing berries in the church. The teenager, who had not hit anyone, returned to his friends.
An adult called the police because he had seen Kevin Moore with the 13-year-old boy and he suspected the child was being abducted. The boy, who seemed upset when being forced to get into the car, was not related to the defendant. The police arrested Kevin Moore and he was charged with kidnapping as there was evidence that he took a 13-year-old boy into his car against the will of the boy. Kidnap carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
A judge questioned why a father who grabbed an abusive teenager and made him apologize to younger children because of a conflict was charged with kidnapping the youth.
Judge Bowers didn’t believe it because this was not what anyone would really call a kidnapping and she asked the CPS to review the case. Two hearings later, Moore's plea to the less serious charge was esteemed acceptable.
It seems to me that the judge handled in a correct way because I also find it a bit over the top that they called it kidnapping. I think that the man had good intentions en he just wanted to teach the children something about apologizing to each other.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/judge-questions-fathers-kidnap-charge-2124384.html
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