You Can't Have That Baby

Couple from Maine accused of kidnapping daughter caught in Salem:

The parents of a 19-year-old pregnant woman were yesterday charged with kidnapping after they allegedly tied her up and began driving her from Maine to New York in an attempt to force her to get an abortion. Katelyn Kampf escaped at a shopping centre and called police, who arrested her parents, Nicholas, 54, and Lola, 53, of North Yarmouth, Maine. Investigators said rope, tape, scissors and a .22-calibre rifle were found in the Kampfs' car. According to a police affidavit, the Kampfs were upset that their daughter was pregnant by a man who is now in jail. When they found out, they had told her she had no choice but to get an abortion. Katelyn escaped in Salem, after persuading her parents to untie her so she could use a bathroom. After her father went into the men's room, she used a mobile phone to call for help then ran to a nearby store, where police found "a hysterical female hiding in the back of the store". Salem police sergeant Kristin Fili said: "They told us they did take her against her will, but they denied tying her up initially. What happened was a crime. She was taken against her will."

The young woman, Katelyn Kampf, a former honor student at Portland's private Waynflete School, went to her parents' house Friday morning and told them she was pregnant with boyfriend Reme Johnson's child, but Katelyn had been forbidden to see Johnson, she had just returned from college in Washington, D.C., to live with Johnson's mother in Portland, where she is staying.

Johnson is being held in the Androscoggin County jail on a charge of possession of a stolen firearm. Both families define disfunction-al.