Sheriff: Race a factor in kidnapping case...

[marmar]

Sheriff: Race a factor in kidnap case By KATHARINE WEBSTER, Associated Press Writer
28 minutes ago



SALEM, N.H. - A Maine couple accused of tying up their 19-year-old daughter, throwing her in their car and driving her out of state to get an abortion were upset because the baby's father is black, a Maine sheriff said Tuesday.

Katelyn Kampf, who is white, told Cumberland County Sheriff Mark Dion that her mother "was pretty irate at the fact that the child's father was black, and she had made a number of disparaging remarks about that," he said.

Katelyn Kampf escaped Friday at a Salem shopping center and called police, who arrested her parents, Nicholas Kampf, 54, and Lola, 53, both real estate developers from North Yarmouth, Maine.

The Kampfs were apparently taking their daughter to New York to try to force her to get an abortion there, police said.

The parents were arraigned Monday on kidnapping charges. The judge set bail at $100,000 each and ordered the Kampfs to have no contact with their daughter. They posted bail Tuesday afternoon.

If convicted of kidnapping, the Kampfs face 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison. Dion said he expects to bring charges in Maine also, after investigators consult with the district attorney Wednesday.

Defense attorney Mark Sisti said Tuesday that a sworn statement by Salem police who interviewed both Katelyn Kampf and her parents said nothing about the father's race.

"This whole race-card thing is ridiculous and objectionable," said Sisti, who represented both of the Kampfs for their arraignment Monday, but is now representing only Lola Kampf. "There wasn't any mention in the sworn affidavit to the court about race being a factor in any way, shape or form."

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[truthisfreedom]

1. erm... mr. Sisti, i dont think anyone is listening.

and why did the father drop you as his lawyer?

[Erika]

2. Perhaps the parents have the Black baby Bill Bennett

Syndrome. This article sickens me.

Anyone who thinks racism in America has been eradicated is nuts.

[greccogirl]

8. And, unfortunately,

it probably never will be. As long as humans are flawed, and we are.

[Miss Chybil]

3. This is appalling on so many levels...

I hope they get the max.

[MissB]

4. Mein Kampf?

Sorry. Tasteless, I know.

[sofa king]

7. Or Kulturkampf.

Kampf live with it, Kampf live without it.

[oncall247]

12. What nationality name is Kampf? Is it German?

I bet they are Republicans and hypocritical anti-abortionists.

[Erika]

5. Right wingers posted this article on conservative sites

until it came out the father is black. Then it just completely disappeared from the conservative sites. I guess being supposedly "pro life" depends on ethnicity with them.

[marmar]

6. Just listen to Michael Savage and John Gibson...

Amurka needs more white babies! Most of the babies being born are Latino, black or Asian. :scared:

[Erika]

9. Did they say why we need more white babies vs any baby?

They are pro life just for white babies?

[marmar]

10. The latter, naturally.

Michael Savage is a blatant racist, and John Gibson pretends not to be but he's so f..king stupid that he lets it out time and time again.

[Crunchy Frog]

11. I hope they do maximum time in prison.

Pro-choice means pro-choice. I can't imagine that there are any abortion providers out there who would do a forced abortion on a non-consenting person. That would be just about the worst kind of assault imaginable.

[NorthernSpy]

13. They had a gun; perhaps they meant to force the doc to operate at gunpoint

A lot of us have wondered how the Kampfs planned to convince a doctor to perform an abortion on a shackled and protesting woman.

Thing is, Nicholas Kampf brought along a gun and ammo. We've all heard of shotgun weddings. Maybe this was to be the first shotgun abortion?

Either that, or perhaps they were headed for New York because they knew someone there who had agreed to help them carry out their plan. After all, New York is where they used to live before they chose to inflict themselves on the state of Maine.

Who knows?