Kidnapped boy and mom found safe
Posted June 17th, 2008 by minortopics | via abcnews.go.comA Florida woman and her son, allegedly kidnapped by the child’s father, have been found safe.
Rashell Renee Pennell was found locked inside a gas station bathroom in Lexington, S.C., early Monday morning. The woman told investigators that 45-year-old Robert William Custer, her former boyfriend and the father of her child, put a handkerchief to her nose and mouth Sunday evening and forced her into his conversion van in Ocala, Fla., at an arranged meeting to pick up their son at the end of a visitation.
“The father walked up to the vehicle, had a handkerchief or some type of cloth, and put it to the mother’s mouth and nose, causing her to pass out,” Lexington County Sheriff James Metts said at a news conference Monday.