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Kidnapped children found alive after 20 years
Posted: February 5th, 2009, 11:51 am
by macgulley
There's got to be a lot more to this story. I'm glad they were found alive. I can't imagine what the parents went through for twenty years.
Parents Mark and Debbie Baskin hope to be reunited soon with their grown children located Monday in California after being abducted 20 years ago.
http://www.murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=15245
Posted: February 5th, 2009, 1:01 pm
by Full Quiver
I think I know this family. I worked with a Brian Baskin that looks remarkably like this young man.
Posted: February 5th, 2009, 1:10 pm
by MacUser
Wow.. interesting story. The parents are pastors and yet the story goes deeper.. see some of the replies.
"I'm an acquaintance of Jennifer's and it's serious business for the Maples to just cut off contact with their own daughter, Baskin, so they had good reason to flee with their grandchildren, Jennifer and Jonathan.
No brainwashing was involved. Jennifer remembers the abuse they suffered in detail and has absolutely no interest in seeing her parents ever again. It's from her own personal memories, before leaving with the Maples in 89, that the abuse memories derive.
Jennifer and Jonathan stand by their grandfather and are now seeking legal council for him. They know Maples is their grandfather, but chose to call him Dad.
The truth will come out for all to see and for the Baskins to have to contend with morally, spiritually and hopefully legally.
Posted: February 5th, 2009, 1:11 pm
by MacUser
also..
"When Mark Baskin decided to obtain his master’s degree at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the late 1980s in Louisville, Ky., the Maples kept Christy and Bobby while Baskin, his wife, and youngest son, Michael, settled in. But when the parents wanted their children back, the Maples accused them of sexually abusing Christie and Bobby.
The children remained with the Maples during several months of an investigation and court proceedings. During that time, Baskin became so frustrated he called the Department of Children’s Services and accused the Maples of abusing his children, asking the children be put into a foster home while the case was settled.
Just before the court cleared the Baskins, the Maples’ disappeared in March 1989"