Mom, grandmother, aunt and friend kidnap and abuse six-year-old boy to teach stranger danger

MAKING a child understand stranger danger is unfortunately a lesson all parents need to instil in their young.

But kidnapping your six-year-old son at gunpoint, holding him captive in his family’s basement and telling him he would be sold into sex slavery is not how to care for a child.

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office allege that sometime before February 2, 38-year-old Denise Kroutil approached a co-worker, Nathan Firoved, 23, and asked him to kidnap her nephew to “scare” him, Fox2Now reported.

The boy’s mother, 25-year-old Elizabeth Hupp of Troy, Missouri, and grandmother, Rose Brewer, 58, agreed that the young child needed to be taught of a lesson and backed his aunt’s plan.

On Monday (February 2), Firoved allegedly parked his pick-up truck by the boy’s bus stop and waited for him to be dropped off after school in Troy. Firoved lured the six-year-old into his truck and drove off.

In the truck, Firoved told the boy he would never “see his mommy again,” and he would be “nailed to the wall of a shed,” police told St Louis Post-Dispatch.

When the boy burst into tears, Firoved pulled out a handgun and told the boy to stop crying or he would hurt him, the Sheriff’s office allege.

Firoved drove the boy around the city and because he would not stop crying, the accused allegedly bound the boy’s hands and feet with plastic bags and covered his face with an adult-sized jacket so he couldn’t see..

Firoved drove the boy to his own home, carried him into the basement, and left him there.

Kroutil, the boy’s aunt, walked down into the basement, pulled the victim’s pants down, and began shouting that he could be sold into sex slavery. She also allegedly chastised the child for not trying to resist her or Firoved.

The boy was kept in the basement for some time longer before he was finally unbound and allowed to go upstairs, at which time his family lectured him about stranger danger.

Family members and Firoved kept in contact via cell phone during the whole four-hour ordeal.

Kidnapping and abuse charges ... The six-year-old boy’s mother Elizabeth Hupp and the boy’s grandmother Rose Brewer. Picture: Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office Source: News Corp Australia

Wanted to toughen up six year-old boy ... The boy’s aunt Denise Kroutil and family friend Nathan Firoved. Picture: Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office Source: News Corp Australia

The six-year-old boy told school authorities what happened on Wednesday, who then contacted the Missouri Division of Family Services. The sheriff’s office was called to the home and the child placed into protective custody.

The family members told investigators their intent was to educate the child and felt they had done nothing wrong.

Firoved, Brewer, and Kroutil were charged with kidnapping, felonious restraint, and abuse/neglect of a child. They remain in custody at Lincoln County Jail on a $250,000 bond. The boy’s mother, Hupp, was charged with kidnapping and abuse/neglect of a child. She remains jailed on a $250,000 cash-only bond