{"id":1531,"date":"2009-08-29T12:29:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T17:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forthelost.wordpress.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T21:15:22","slug":"luca-principali-refreshing-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/29\/luca-principali-refreshing-honesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Luca Principali &#8211; refreshing honesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been closely following the abduction of Luca Principali from his Idaho home. He was taken while being looked after by a baby-sitter. She answered the door and there was a bearded man there who stated he was there with Luca&#8217;s mother. (His parents are seperated; his mother has not seen him in a year and a half.) Neighbors heard a scream and an Amber Alert was issued. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idahostatesman.com\/1453\/story\/880933.html\">This article<\/a> shows the planning involved in the abduction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A slashed car tire delayed Luca Principali&#8217;s father just long enough for his mother and an accomplice to nab him from his Boise home, investigators said last week to persuade a judge to issue a warrant for her arrest for kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>The half-hour it took Anthony Principali to change his tire bought the time the kidnappers needed to nab the boy and leave a 14-year-old baby sitter so scared she didn&#8217;t call police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is elaborate, of course, but not overly so for a parental kidnapper. What I found refreshing was his mother&#8217;s admission of her motive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About two hours after Luca was abducted on Aug. 19, Ekaterina Principali called Anthony Principali and told him she took the boy to teach the father a lesson and that she would return the boy later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very few abductors admit at the start they are doing it to spite the other parent. I would actually rather see this than someone blathering on about how the kid&#8217;s better off with the abductor.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the divorce papers Anthony Principali filed that day asked for joint custody of Luca. It was only after the kidnapping that he asked this to be changed to sole custody.<\/p>\n<p>I sincerely hope that Luca is found before he&#8217;s eligible for our site.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been closely following the abduction of Luca Principali from his Idaho home. He was taken while being looked after by a baby-sitter. She answered the door and there was a bearded man there who stated he was there with Luca&#8217;s mother. (His parents are seperated; his mother has not seen him in a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-abductions","category-missing-people-in-the-news","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29960,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/29960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}