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02-27-2007, 04:48 PM
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FBI Leads Search for Missouri Dad Who Took 3 Kids to El Salvador
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
By Liza Porteus
The FBI is leading the hunt for a Missouri dad — described by family members as "delusional" — who methodically planned and carried out a scheme to snatch his three young kids and smuggle them out of the country, FOXNews.com has learned.
Authorities believe Joel Hundley, 34, took his children — ages 10 months, 2 and 4 years old — from the family's house on Feb. 19, and flew with them to El Salvador.
Family members told FOXNews.com that they believe Hundley is engaged in questionable sexual activities, and that they fear the children could become victims of a human trafficking or child prostitution ring.
"Either he's completely out of it … thinking he's only protecting his children by kidnapping them, taking them across borders and hiding them from authorities, or the other, which I'm really concerned about," Hundley's sister, Shelley Hundley, told FOXNews.com on Tuesday. "Definitely my main concern is, he has been involved in some online, really sketchy, really troubling sexual trade and tourism."
She added: "It's to me, inevitable … that they will end up in prostitution, whether it's five years or three months [from now] or whatever, they will end up in prostitution. There's no question. It will end up being sexual exploitation of children."
More at link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,255087,00.html
FBI Leads Search for Missouri Dad Who Took 3 Kids to El Salvador
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
By Liza Porteus
The FBI is leading the hunt for a Missouri dad — described by family members as "delusional" — who methodically planned and carried out a scheme to snatch his three young kids and smuggle them out of the country, FOXNews.com has learned.
Authorities believe Joel Hundley, 34, took his children — ages 10 months, 2 and 4 years old — from the family's house on Feb. 19, and flew with them to El Salvador.
Family members told FOXNews.com that they believe Hundley is engaged in questionable sexual activities, and that they fear the children could become victims of a human trafficking or child prostitution ring.
"Either he's completely out of it … thinking he's only protecting his children by kidnapping them, taking them across borders and hiding them from authorities, or the other, which I'm really concerned about," Hundley's sister, Shelley Hundley, told FOXNews.com on Tuesday. "Definitely my main concern is, he has been involved in some online, really sketchy, really troubling sexual trade and tourism."
She added: "It's to me, inevitable … that they will end up in prostitution, whether it's five years or three months [from now] or whatever, they will end up in prostitution. There's no question. It will end up being sexual exploitation of children."
More at link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,255087,00.html