A mother was arrested last week for allegedly plotting to kidnap her own daughter, who has a developmental disability, as a ‘scare tactic’ to teach her about online safety. She and three others were charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
Tammi Hamby, the former chair of the Crawford County library board who demanded the libraries banned LGBTQ+ books to protect children from “grooming”, allegedly staged the kidnapping on 17 November to stop her 22-year-old daughter Jami from talking to strangers online.
Hamby’s husband, Jeffery, told 5News on 4 December that they had become concerned about Jami’s safety after she began talking to someone online that claimed to be country singer Luke Bryan and “developed a relationship” with him.
Hamby recruited David Quach, Nico Austria and Jami’s in-home nursing assistant, Shannon Yazmin Yvonne Childers, to help her stage the kidnapping. Posing as people who worked for Bryan, Quach and Austria lurked Jami from her home and drove her to a fi...
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