Parents kidnap daughter to make her have abortion

A US COUPLE accused of kidnapping their daughter to force her to have an abortion have reached a plea agreement in which they will serve no time behind bars, the couple’s lawyer said.

But their daughter has vowed to voice her opposition to this. Nicholas and Lola Kampf, of Maine, agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanour assault and disorderly conduct charges to resolve the case, said Thomas Hallett, Mr Kampf’s attorney.

The Kampfs’ daughter Katelyn, 20, said she would be in court to voice her opposition to the decision to drop kidnapping charges.

“What I’ve been looking for is some sort of justice,” she said. The Kampfs were accused of tying up their daughter, forcing her into their car and heading towards New York for an abortion. Breaking her silence on the ordeal, Katelyn Kampf described a harrowing experience that ensued on September 15, 2006, after her parents learned she was pregnant with a mixed-race baby.

Kampf is white. Johnson, her boyfriend at the time, is black.

Kampf said her mother referred to the baby she was carrying as a “science project” before the episode unfolded.

Kampf, who gave birth in January to a son, D’Andre Johnson, said it is hard to imagine reconciliation with her parents. “Honestly, I don’t think that I could ever face my parents again after what we went through.”