Child Abduction Emergency: South Carolina

[GoddessOfGuinness]

Happened on this when I went to check the weather, and thought it best to post it here where it would be quickly seen...


RELAYED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
405 PM EST FRI MAR 9 2007

...CHILD ABDUCTION EMERGENCY...

WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED THIS IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING AN
ABDUCTED CHILD IN SPARTANBURG.

THE SOUTH CAROLINA STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT DIVISION IS LOOKING FOR
NATHAN ROBIN CHRISTEN...A MALE...AGE 11...HEIGHT AND WEIGHT
UNKNOWN...HAIR AND EYE COLOR ALSO UNKNOWN...RACE...WHITE. THE
CHILD WAS LAST SEEN AT 1216 JOHN B. WHITE SR. BLVD IN SPARTANBURG
SOUTH CAROLINA. THE CHILD WAS LAST SEEN WEARING AN ORANGE SHIRT...
AND BLUE JEANS.

AUTHORITIES ADVISE THE CHILD WAS LIKELY ABDUCTED BY ANTHONY
ROBIN CHRISTEN...A WHITE MALE WITH BROWN HAIR AND BROWN EYES.
THEY MAY BE TRAVELING IN A 2003 OLDSMOBILE ALERO...DARK GREY
COLOR...TAG NUMBER 113-VPT...DIRECTION OF TRAVEL UNKNOWN.

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION REGARDING THIS ABDUCTION...PLEASE
CALL LAW ENFORCEMENT IMMEDIATELY.

THE PRECEDING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE SOUTH
CAROLINA LAW ENFORCEMENT DIVISION.

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=gsp&wwa=child%20abduction%20emergency

[Megahurtz]

1. Frightnening. n/t

[High Plains]

2. Sounds like it was the kid's father. Happens every day.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. It does, but this father was pretty nutso...

He held his ex at knifepoint the morning before he took the child.

[tblue37]

12. Yeah, but sometimes the fathers do kill the kids.

I am thinking, for example, of that guy who, just a few days ago, took his 8-year-old daughter up in a small plane and then deliberately crashed it into hs ex-mother-in-law's house as a way of getting at his ex-wife.

[youngdem]

3. Whoa...That kid looks JUST like an anteater. Should make him much easier to find.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. Missing local boy found in Simpsonville (SC)

The Associated Press
Published March 9, 2007

An 11-year-old boy believed abducted from school by his father was found Friday night at a church some 33 miles from where the two were last seen. The boy was not harmed, and the father was still on the loose, said Spartanburg County Sheriff's Maj. Dan Johnson.

Anthony Robin Christen, 38, had taken his son from school at about 9 a.m., according to the school principal.

The boy was found at a church in Simpsonville about nine hours later, officials said. The abduction took place the morning after Christen held his estranged wife at knifepoint in her home, authorities said.

State police had issued an Amber Alert for the boy, Nathaniel Christen.

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20070309/NEWS/70309007/1062

[rasputin1952]

9. THank God this young man was found unharmed...

[rebel with a cause]

5. Parent abductions of children are usually not as dangerous as stranger abductions

Except when the parent happens to be a lunatic that kills the children, or a sexual abuser who has molested the child in the past and takes them to continue that practice.

I handled the visits of one such father many years ago, and was advised on how to handle a possible abduction try. I was told to let him go and immediately call the police. They never told me what to do if he tried to kill me. ;-) Luckily he never did try anything when I was over the visits, but a year after that he did take her from her school. Traveled across the country with her and was finally captured on the west coast. He had done just what they were afraid he would do with her if he took her. He went to prison and she went back with her mother. That was around ten years ago and hopefully she is okay.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. The abduction took place the morning after Christen held his estranged wife at knifepoint

in her home, authorities said.

This guy sure sounded looney...

[rebel with a cause]

8. Yes, he sounds like someone that I would be afraid would

harm the child, even if it was just to get even with the mother. But then I don't know his case history, or their family history, so I couldn't say for sure. It could just be a case where he was angry that he had no control over the son and just wanted to take him. It could even be, and I am not saying it is, that the father thought the mother was not a good guardian and the father wanted to save the boy.

Divorce is a painful time and some people can just not handle the breakup of the family. Holding a knife on someone is not the answer, but sometimes a person is not in control of their emotions or their actions and although they would not stab a person, they would try to intimidate them with a knife. His not actually stabbing her makes me think he might be that person.

The man that I had experience with held a gun on the girl's teacher and classmates, but he did not shoot anyone. He was a sex offender and a control freak, but he did not kill anyone. The last I heard his wife, a woman from the middle east and not the girls mother, was still saying he was innocent and trying to get him out of prison. Oh, did I mention he was a member of a world wide organization of Satan worshipers. (not a rumor, a fact)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Oh man...

His wife needs serious help.

I'm sure we don't hear about the majority of these cases, simply because violence is not involved. But here in the DC area, there have been a number of incidents where an angry parent gets even with the ex by harming the kids. It really turns my stomach.

[rebel with a cause]

11. Yeah, it is sickening what people do to their children.

I got pretty hardened to it when I worked in child welfare, but you never get use to them killing the kids. The abuse is hard enough to handle, and there were times I wanted to just not deal with these parents, but I had no choice in the matter. Unfortunately, at that time Illinois had the family reunifacation program, but I don't know what they have now. No matter what the parent had done to the child, the idea was to keep the family unit still somehow connected. I'm sorry, but when you have a parent who sexually abuses a small child that child does not need to have continued contact with them. These parents should have no rights. JMHO

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. I agree...

The child's safety needs to come first.

[stonebone]

14. kick