...This has been all over Twitter and Facebook but just in case you haven’t heard about it yet… Chin Xin-Ci was abducted at the Curve last Sunday evening and she managed to escape, thanks to her wits. I can only pray that other girls (that includes myself) can be as swift in action and thought. I don’t usually share stories like this (or the ones that go around on emails a lot) but this was just too close to home. Please read her full account below, and SHARE it on FB. ///////////////////////// As I sit here writing this, I am just so grateful to be alive. To think that 30 hours ago I had a knife to my throat, face to face with the threat of being kidnapped and raped. It was a Sunday, at 5.22PM. I was alone, walking towards my boyfriend’s car in level B2 of The Curve, Mutiara Damansara. He was not in town, and I was running errands with his car. Just as I was putting my shopping bags in the rear seat, the rear car door was slammed against my back, and a meat cleaver was pressed against my throat. A man covered my mouth with his hand, and whispered not to scream. He then shoved me onto the floor of the backseat of the car and waved the cleaver at me, reminding me not to scream. He was skinny, wearing a baggy turqoise blue t-shirt, had a thick moustache and short curly hair, approx 5’8″, mid-30s, and of Indian descent. At this moment, second man appeared. He was also in his mid-30s. He was wearing a red t-shirt, had a crewcut, and was of Malay descent. He grabbed my car keys...
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...The Lindbergh case, the kidnapping of Charles, Jr, of 20-months-old. the son of the famous aviator and his wife, Anne Lindbergh. the baby was kidnapped from the nursery on the second floor. from the lindbergh home at 9:00 pm, on march 1, 1932. the baby's parents were notified an hour later, while they were with the child's nurse, Betty they immediately made search of the house. they found a ransom note demanding $50,000. then after the hopewell police were notified, they reported through telephone to the New Jersey police. during the search they found evidence. there were blood stains in or about the nursery, and no fingerprints were found. the evidence they found during the search were footprints , two sections of a ladder, and a ransom...
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...DICTIONARY) the crime of kidnapping is labeled as abduction when the victim is a woman. In the modern usage kidnapping or abduction of a child is often called child stealing particularly when done not to collect a ransom, but to a child permanently (often in case where parents are divorced or legally separated, where upon the parent does not have a legal custody; will commit the act; then also known as ‘child napping’). The word ‘kidnapping’ was originally “kid-nabbing” in other words slang used for child stealing but it is no longer restricted to the case of a child victim.[1] Cases: 1. Lodged In Arthur Road Prison vs. Sewree Police Station on 8 September, 2008. 2. Amar Mishra vs. State Of Delhi on 23 September, 2011 Section 359 Kidnapping □ Under federal and state law, kidnapping is commonly defined as the taking of a person from one place to another against his will or her will, or the confining of a person to a controlled space. Some kidnapping laws require extortion or the facilitation of a crime. A parent without legal custody rights may be charged with kidnapping for taking his or her own child, in certain circumstances. In Badlu Shah vs. Emperor[2] it was held that Kidnapping and abduction do not include the offence of wrongful confinement or keeping, in confinement, a kidnapped person[3]. The words ‘kidnapping’ and ‘abduction’ do not include the offence...
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...CJ230: Criminal Law for Criminal Justice 06/29/13 The Case I chose for my scenario is the Elizabeth Smart case from Salt Lake City, Idaho. Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home around 1 a.m. on June 5, 2002, a man with a knife entered the bedroom of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart and her nine-year-old sister Mary Katherine and forced Elizabeth to leave the house and walk into the woods four miles behind her Salt Lake City home to a secluded campsite. Nine months later, Elizabeth Smart was found in nearby Sandy, Utah after spending months at the campsite, traveling to California, and returning to Utah with her captors. Brain David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, were charged with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, and aggravated burglary. The giving rise to the criminal prosecution in Elizabeth Smart case was that she testified step by step what she went through, in nine month of hell, she was taking across Stateline to California and all of the evidence that was collected while police investigation was going on, like the link of cable, the knife, the wig that was purchased to disguise Elizabeth Smart, sunglasses, etc. The legal definition of "kidnapping" under federal law is when someone unlawfully and willfully seizes, kidnaps, or abducts another person over state lines. Carrying someone away and holding him/her for ransom also qualifies as kidnapping. If the kidnapping never crosses state lines or affects interstate commerce, then it's not a federal...
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...1007/s11417-007-9040-1 Kidnap for Ransom in South East Asia The Case for a Regional Recording Standard Mohd Kassim Noor Mohamed Received: 27 July 2007 / Accepted: 5 November 2007 / Published online: 15 December 2007 # Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2007 Abstract Kidnapping for ransom is not a new phenomenon. According to the Control Risk Group, an international risk consultancy, kidnappings of foreign nationals globally have increased by 275% over the past 10 years. High profile incidents such as the tourist kidnappings in 2000 by the Abu Sayyaf group, operating out of the troubled southern region of the Philippines, show that South East Asia has its own regionalised kidnapping hotspots. It is suspected that a high proportion of kidnappings are perpetrated by economically motivated crime groups but it is not possible to estimate with any degree of accuracy what percentage can be attributed to organised crime. This article will provide an overview of the problem, drawing upon existing literature available in the public domain. A typological discussion will show the critical differences between the various categories of kidnapping. The reliability of existing statistics, categorisation and recording of kidnapping for ransom will also be scrutinised, in particular for their variability across the region, to see whether this presents a barrier to a better understanding of the size and seriousness of the problem. As kidnapping for ransom incidents are becoming increasingly transnational...
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...Lindbergh Kidnapping It was considered the “Crime of the Century” that is still captivating people. What truly happened on the night of March 1, 1932 in Hopewell, New Jersey is still being talked about decades later. Even though one man was tried and convicted for this crime, there are still many conspiracy theories that surround this case. Was it an inside job that had been carefully planned? Was it the result of skillful fabrication done by investigators and police to wrongfully accuse one man? Or was the verdict correct and it was all done by one man alone? The question still remains, who kidnapped the Lindbergh baby? Due to the considerable evidence against Bruno Hauptmann, it is believed that Mr. Hauptmann was the one to kidnap...
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...How To Avoid Kidnapping ? You are in danger at any place and at any time. Thus, it is necessary to exercise safety everywhere you go and even at your home. | Here are some of the ways in which you can exercise safety and can avoid being kidnapped: Tips on How To Avoid Kidnapping ?: * Take different routes at different times from home to work and vice-versa. Make sure that all the members of your family practice this, especially children. Make changes in your routine in such a way that you go unnoticed by the perpetrator. * Avoid wearing expensive accessories (jewelry) that would reflect your wealth and identify you as a person from a rich family or an employee of a wealthy company. * Avoid traveling alone, safety comes with numbers. If you use public transportation, be extremely careful. Drive in cabs of reliable companies. Note down the license plate number of the taxi. If you use a private car, make sure that your car is in a good condition and the fuel tank is at least half full. Chauffer driven car is the best option. * If you experience an erratic behavior from a stranger, seek to a safer place, an environment that is crowded like a store or a bank that is around. * Do not open doors until you know who is on the other side. It is advisable to exercise more safety if you are alone at the house. * Keep all your personal items safe and secure. Take special care about your money, travel documents, passports, identity cards and laptops. Keep...
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...Stu Dent v. State Sentencing Proposal The sentencing stage is the last part of the criminal trial. In the Stu Dent v. State case the outcome of the sentencing can very from charge to charge. The prosecution and Defense attorneys have rested their cases and the decision has been made in this case. The judge now take the arguments in to consideration and pass down a judgment on the sentence the defendant will face. The defendant is charged with Homicide, kidnapping, burglary, assault of a police officer, and possession of drugs. The facts that lead to homicide are Uma Opee was stabbed 13 times and the skin particles under the victim’s nails matched the DNA to Stu Dents. The facts leading to the assault on a police officer comes when he punched Officer T. Chur in the face and yelled "Alien". Kidnapping comes from the fact that Mr. Dents used rope to tie the victim and he stuffed her mouth with cloth. Burglary charges are result of Mr. Dents entering the victim’s apartment without permission to be there and having the intent to commit a crime within that residence. Mr. Dents is also charged with possession of drugs because in his house was drugs that were found, the same drug ecstasy with the "thumbs-up" imprint found at the victim's apartment. In the State v. Stu Dent case the charge of Homicide carries the most weight of any of the charges. Mr. Dents is charged with Murder due the fact that the victim was stabbed 13 times and evidence supported the fact that Mr. Dent was...
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...What “REALLY” happened to Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.? Patience Smith Intro to CJ System CJ101-02 Prof. Dan Bilodeau On June 22, 1930, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was born to the infamous “Lucky Lindy” and his wife, Anne. When he was a mere 20 months old, he was kidnapped from his crib in the house where parents and staff were in the house beneath him. The kidnapping occurred from a second story window in a rainstorm where no one heard a thing! Here in lie the questions that we will discuss in this paper. The police suspected an inside job from the beginning. Whomever carried out the abduction knew the whereabouts of the nursery and the parent’s plans for the particular evening in questions. With the residence being in Morrow, New Jersey where the family stayed during the week then having a home in Hopewell where they stayed on the weekends. The abduction took place on a Tuesday night when the family had decided to stay longer in Hopewell because the baby came down with a fever and cold. The main question that appears here is that without an insider involved, how would the abductor have known that the baby was still in Hopewell. The first question asked is how the courts, police and corrections apply to the disappearance of the baby. The investigation was shoddy at best. The main concerns were that there was very little evidence to be found. Even though it was proven to be raining, there were no footprints left in the child’s bedroom where he was lifted...
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...different issues within the storyline itself that made for a very good and intriguing plot. I was very fascinated with how the main character, Gary Soneji, seemed to be so caught up and focused on the Lindenbergh kidnapping, which involved the kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindenbergh, Jr., who was the 20 month old son of aviator Charles Lindenbergh, Sr. and his wife (fbi.gov). Soneji was very consumed and borderline obsessed with the case, to the extent that he decided to carry out his own kidnapping. He kidnapped the daughter of a senator who was a student at Washington Day School, the private school where he was a math teacher. After the kidnapping, Soneji, who wore prosthetics while teaching, watched the news coverage of the kidnapping. When questioned about why he kidnapped the girl, Soneji admitted that at the age of 15, he had burned down a house. He stated that he did not get the response that he thought that he would, which was to end up on the news. Ultimately, he wanted attention and he wanted to feel as if he was someone important. While Soneji was the one who kidnapped the senators daughter, Jezzie, who worked for the Secret Service at the private school that Soneji taught at, was in on the kidnapping also. Her reasons for assisting with the kidnapping were greed and power. She resorted to murdering one of her co-workers in order to not be caught. The situation in the movie was very interesting to me because both of them played integral roles. The characteristics...
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...Introduction I find this question to be asked when bring the state law also the federal law into this matter to law enforcement. Is the fact that the laws do not state that being married is grounds for the laws to be broken with the law for kidnapping? Are more than guidelines for which the laws happened to made to protect anyone that happens to be kidnapped?, With the disregard for the laws being in black and white they are faulted to fail cause of the simple term used is marriage so the laws cannot be broken. My research topic is the misuse of the law for kidnapping when who are married. The terms I took a look at are of the five W's which are who, what, when, where, and why. The two states that I am going to be using are Florida and Louisiana...
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...Mostly, it punishment cannot last beyond a year in prison. A person who is involved in this kind of crime can also be charged with a kidnapping crime. This is so because the series of conduct can provide a basis for the two crimes. Though, kidnapping mostly requires some truths that the victim was shifted from a place to the crime area. Kidnapping can lead to a punishment of more than thirty years in prison as it is considered as a felony of the first degree. In some instances, it can lead to a life imprisonment. This mostly happens when a sexual act that is non-consensual occurs during the crime. Thus it is more heinous. A person charging a crime of false imprisonment can claim for a compensation due to the interference of his or her freedom of movement. Simple examples can be locking someone in a bedroom and intentionally refuse to open for them. If the sentence of only for the period of a year then the crime is a misdemeanor (Liu et al, 2008). But if it is punished as a felony...
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...The statue I choose for my research project is 720 ILCS 5/10-2 Aggravated Kidnapping. Aggravated Kidnapping is when there is a ransom involved, a weapon is involved, or the victim is under 13. This is a Class X felony under Illinois Law. Depending on the offence, aggravated kidnapping has a minimum of 6 years and can go up 30 years. In People v. Cole 172 Ill. 2d 85 (1996), Cole was sentence to death for his crimes. He was charged with two first degree murders, two home invasions, and one aggravated kidnapping. He murdered his ex-girlfriend’s mother, and the told her along with her 15-year-old brother to “go for a ride” with him while at gun point. Later shooting Shane. Later Cole stated that when the mother was shot, it was an accident, and that the sister, Stacey, had shot and killed her own brother. The Supreme court affirmed the decision for aggravated kidnapping according to Cole forcing Shane to get into the car against his will with a gun pointed at him. Aside from being sentence to death Cole received 30 years for the charge of aggravated kidnapping....
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...University of Phoenix Material Week Three Worksheet Match the items in the Case Summary column to the Options in the right column by entering the correct corresponding alphabetical letter next to the numbers in the first column. Not all options will be used. | | |Case Summary | |Options | | | | | | | | |D |Shaun is driving home at night from work on a six-lane road, |Murder | | | |under the speed limit. There are no streetlights. A man is |Voluntary manslaughter | | | |crossing the middle of the street, and Shaun does not see him. |Involuntary manslaughter | | | |Shaun hits the man and kills him. |Justifiable homicide | | | | |Excusable homicide | | | | |Statutory rape | | | | |Malice aforethought | | | | ...
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...The Lindbergh kidnapping was deemed the “Crime of the Century” in the 20th century much like how 9/11 was a very serious and detrimental terrorists attack in this century . It all started when Charles Lindbergh was an American pilot who made the first transatlantic non-stop flight from New York to France, which took about 33 and a half hours (James 1). Charles Lindbergh was staying at his home in Hopewell, New Jersey with his wife and 20 month old son Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. On the night of March 1, 1932, Charles Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped from his crib in the Hopewell house and was never seen until a bystander found the dead body on the side of the road years later. All of the evidence produced from the crime scene pointed to only...
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