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Man in tangled kidnap case/beating to stand trial

...than is so far in the media. Bell may have have gotten off too easy when the family responded.

The guy's story sounds a bit fishy to me. I am glad he is going to stand trial.

I must say, however, that I think the beating was wrong, too. Perhaps we will eventually have two trials.

with all the drinking and partying going on how could any reasonable parent expect to keep check of their children. there is a lot of blame to go around here. the children are victimes of the men that took them into their home and also the parents that allowed it by not checking on them. where alchol and drugs lurk, so does the Devil and his helpers.

I wonder how close to the smart kidnapping the mom is gonna make this look...pathetic excuse to cover up her own negligence.

Kraft is trying to draw attention away from the facts of the case by using the media. He is attempting to create a situation that does not exist. This is just wrong---and he should be ashamed of himself.

If the neighbor, in fact, removed the children from their home, he acted inappropriately. What I don't understand is how the children's adult family members can break into the home of their neighbor's, beat them to the point of requiring hospitalization and surgery, and not have charges brought against them.

Any person knows it is wrong to take a child out of their home without parent's permission, especially in the middle of the night. If Bell had good intentions he would have offered to the parents of the children to have the kids come stay on his couch. How did his couch turn into his bedroom? The children were not found on the couch! I could care less if the guy was gay or strait, the guy had bad intentions and anyone suggesting otherwise is looking through rose colored glasses.
Beeting the man to a bloody pulp is not right either. Nor his breaking into his house to do so. Sadly this trial would be open and closed if a beeting didn't occur. However, I tell you now, if someone ever took my child out of my home and into theirs in the middle of the night without my consent, the trial wouldn't be a kidnapping one, but one for murder. I wouldn't have stopped at a bloody pulp!