Parents use Facebook to prevent kidnapping of daughter
Jun 19, 2013, 11:20 AM | Updated: 11:32 am
Spokane parents used Facebook to turn the tables on a 30-year-old man suspected of trying to run off with their 15-year-old daughter. (AP Photo/file)
(AP Photo/file)
Spokane parents used Facebook to turn the tables on a 30-year-old man suspected of trying to run off with their 15-year-old daughter.
The parents found out that the girl had exchanged hundreds of messages with Jason Richards and that she’d met him in May.
The relationship between the Federal Way man and the girl began in April through a Facebook dating application called “Are You Interested?”
The parents blocked their daughter’s access to Facebook then her mother posed as the girl, setting up another meeting with the Federal Way man earlier this month.
The Spokesman-Review reports the father and two of his friends were waiting when Richards showed up. They held him for police.
Court records indicate that Richards gave the girl an engagement ring and discussed the idea that she would run away from home, change her name and live with him.
Richards is charged with child rape and attempted kidnapping. He is jailed on a $100,000 bond.
