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"      At some point our parents have warned all of us not to talk to strangers, especially ones with candy. But this Missouri family&amp;#039;s attempt to teach one six-year-old boy that lesson got completely and cruelly out of control. Elizabeth Hupp, the boy&amp;#039;s 25-year-old mother, allegedly staged a plot to kidnap her son so he&amp;#039;d learn to stop being &amp;quot;so nice to people,&amp;quot; police told CNN. RELATED: Birth Certificates Ask Parents Controversial Question After getting off his school bus, the little boy was coaxed into a pickup truck by his aunt&amp;#039;s coworker, Nathan Wynn Firoved. His face was covered with a coat so he couldn&amp;#039;t see and he was taken to his mother&amp;#039;s basement. There he was tied up with plastic bags, his aunt removed his pants, and Nathan told him that he would never &amp;quot;see his mommy again,&amp;quot; according to the Lincoln County sheriff&amp;#039;s statement. When the boy started to cry, Firoved, 23, reportedly showed him a gun, and threatened to hurt him if he didn&amp;#039;t stop whimpering.  After being bound to the wall for a few hours, the child was told to go upstairs where his mother, grandmother, and aunt were waiting to lecture him about &amp;quot;stranger danger,&amp;quot; the police statement said.  Shockingly, the family thinks their actions were totally acceptable. &amp;quot;Family members told investigators their primary intent was to educate the victim and felt they did nothing wrong,&amp;quot; the press release said. RELATED: A 911 Operater Told a Distraught Teenager to &amp;#039;Stop Whining&amp;#039; His mother is charged with felony kidnapping, felony abuse and neglect of a child. His 58-year-old grandmother, Rose Brewer, the aunt, Denise Kroutil, and Firoved are also charged with felonies. The boy has been placed into protective custody.  This story originally appeared on RedbookMag.com. [H/T CNN] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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