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Parents’ Kidnapping
Charges Are Dropped
Prosecutors withdrew charges that a couple kidnapped their children from state social workers at gunpoint in Grants Pass but said the parents would face new charges.
Prosecutor Rick Wesenberg said in Roseburg he would instead file charges alleging the two social workers driving the three girls back to a foster home were the kidnapping victims.
Defense attorney Edgar Steele has maintained that Ruth and Brian Christine were rescuing their children from an out-of-control state agency when Brian Christine took them in August.
Judge William Lasswell will hear the motion today.
Wesenberg said one of the girls might be called to testify, but Steele said it would be too traumatic.
The Christines, both 29, face charges of kidnapping, robbery, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and custodial interference.
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