Mother Finds Kidnapped Children On Facebook

[Tom Goldman]

Mother Finds Kidnapped Children On Facebook

Thanks to Facebook, a mother was able to find her two children that were kidnapped fifteen years ago.

Believe it or not, Facebook can be useful for more than inane status updates about bacon and hassling people to give you virtual gifts. A California mother was able to reunite with her kidnapped children after successfully searching for them on the social network.

The mother, who was not named, lost contact with her 3-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son when they were kidnapped by her husband Faustino Utrera 15 years ago. She never gave up the hunt, and discovered that the now teenagers were living in Central Florida when she searched for and found her daughter on Facebook. I guess we know who the favorite child is.

After first finding her daughter, she requested a FarmVille ostrich topiary in exchange for an apple tree. After receiving the topiary, she contacted police, who were able to locate Utrera and the children in Florida. Did you really expect a Facebook story without a FarmVille mention?

Utrera is now in jail, and the children are back in custody of the mother. Sadly, even though proper justice was served here, it'll likely be tough for both parties involved to rebuild the relationship that was severed for 15 years. Facebook and other social networks have plenty of downfalls, this situation shows the power that they have to do good in this crazy world.

Source: Gizmodo [http://www.wesh.com/news/23716131/detail.html]

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[uppitycracker]

Good thing the kids didn't jump on the Quit Facebook day bandwagon.

 

[Rainboq]

Oh, oh wow...

Facebook, I think you deserve a cookie, for once...

 

[cainx10a]

They probably bonded with the father more by now, well, good job destroying that relation Mrs.

 

[Sir Kemper]

Warms my heart a little.

Best of luck to them and hopefully they'll be able to rebuild they're family.


Also, isin't a bit odd that the father would let his two KIDNAPPED kids on facebook?

 

[khaimera]

So farmville does do some good. I always wondered. I thought facebook was a site for people who like to tell other people that they are having their morning coffee, having a bad day, or posting supid pics of your kids, and for nobody else. I hate facebook.

 

[oppp7]

Good to see Facebook getting some positive publicity.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

inane status updates about bacon

That. Hurt. I demand an apology!

But yeah, I don't really know how good this is, I mean the kids were allowed Facebook and were obviously happy enough to not be searching for their mother, so now she just got rid of their main role model and took his place, with no choice for the kids to stay with the guy.

 

[awsome117]

Warms my heart a little.

Best of luck to them and hopefully they'll be able to rebuild they're family.


Also, isin't a bit odd that the father would let his two KIDNAPPED kids on facebook?

I assume that he thought the mother would give up by then. I mean 15 years is a long time. And plus I bet the children had the facebook without the father's knowledge.

 

[Galaxy613]

Frankly, stories like this give us no information to go on. Hooray I guess? Did the Dad kidnap them for a good reason and now the two teenagers are gonna go through living hell, legally justified living hell?

 

[DeeTee]

They probably bonded with the father more by now, well, good job destroying that relation Mrs.

What? It's the fault of the woman who lost her children, not of the father that kidnapped them? What should she have done, washed her hands of them? That's like blaming the cop that arrested you for ruining your life, not yourself for committing the crime.

 

[MGlBlaze]

Warms my heart a little.

Best of luck to them and hopefully they'll be able to rebuild they're family.


Also, isin't a bit odd that the father would let his two KIDNAPPED kids on facebook?

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Also, both kids would be into their late teens. I think it's reasonable to assume that they, if the father hadn't thought he was in the clear, gotten an account without his permission. Computers aren't hard to access, after all.

Anyway, I think Facebook deserves a salute or something for once. I wonder if the kids realised they were kidnapped before then?

 

[Blimey]

Warms my heart a little.

Best of luck to them and hopefully they'll be able to rebuild they're family.


Also, isin't a bit odd that the father would let his two KIDNAPPED kids on facebook?

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Anyway, I think Facebook deserves a salute or something for once. I wonder if the kids realised they were kidnapped?

I guarantee that if they were taken when they were very young, then they probably had no read idea what happened.

 

[Matt_LRR]

Yeah, this story is really grey for me. The father and mother were split, adn the father ran off with the kids, denying his former wife's custody.

But he was ostensibly a good father who cared for the kids, and raised them.

So now this woman, who holds a legal claim, finds them and takes them back after 15 years, severing their relationship with their father, and leaving them in the custody of a woman they probably don't even remember, and have no relationship with?

If I were the kids, I'd probably be furious with her.

So yeah, legal justice was served, but are the kids "better off" for it? Unlikely.

-m

 

[Pandalisk]

The Husband had an Awesome name, how dare she take those children away from a man they can tell there friends is called Faustino!.

Also..from Florida to California?.. ouch.. In my opinion, bad trade.
But thats a tourist opinion.

 

[dududf]

The Dad kidnapped the children when they were so young that they couldn't even remember their mother...


He has been their father for their entire lives, and have bonded and loved his father. Now this women that is apparently their mother has sent their father to jail, and are forced to live with the mother.


I can't actually see what is the bigger evil. It'd depend on the circumstances as to why the father took them, and the father and childrens living conditions, and we already know that they kids were in an average living condition, if they have time to waste on Farmville, it means they have power, a working computer and not under chains.


The Law was served.

And has shattered a family.

This mothers a bit of a ***** in my opinion.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Oh, oh wow...

Facebook, I think you deserve a cookie, for once...

Only one cookie.

 

[IHaveNoCoolness]

To all the people who are wondering about the guy and how she probably ruined their relationship, etc, etc...

The guy is a kidnapper who took the children illegally. How much of a decent guy can he be?