Kidnap staged ‘to teach boy a lesson’

A six-year-old boy’s mother, grandmother, and aunt have been charged after officials said that they staged his kidnapping to teach him about possible danger from strangers.

The sheriff’s office in Lincoln County, Missouri, said the three enlisted help from the aunt’s co-worker, who lured the child into his truck after he got off a school bus.

Officials said the man told the boy he would not “see his mummy again”, and that he would be “nailed to the wall of a shed”, reported the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.