PA Amber Alert

[Peg]

Thanks for the update!

[qsducks]

Originally Posted by Peg

Thanks for the update!

If you go to 6abc.com the article is on there.

[Peg]

Apparently, they weren't abducted.

[Odie]

stupid mother!


the worry, the panic -----------the not knowing!






Posted: Wednesday, 27 May 2009 9:53PM

'Missing' Mother in Custody in Florida



by KYW's Jim Melwert and Ian Bush

It looks as though it was all a lie. The car crash. The abduction. The being locked in a trunk.

And now, a 38-year-old Bucks County woman is facing multiple charges after authorities found her and her little girl unharmed at a Disney World resort hotel.

Bucks County District Attorney Michelle Henry:

"Bonnie Sweeten was taken into custody in Orlando, Florida. She was taken into custody at the Grand Floridian Hotel, a Disney World resort. She was with, at the time, her nine-year-old daughter, who is safe."

The Feasterville woman is charged with false reports and identity theft.

Sweeten is alleged to have taken her co-worker's driver's license to purchase a plane ticket to Florida on Tuesday.

She'll be extradited to Bucks County to face charges. Her daughter, Julia Rakoczy, was to be picked up by her biological father.

There's no firm word on a motive, but authorities say Sweeten may have had financial concerns as well as problems at home.

Law enforcement sources tell KYW Newsradio that Sweeten's abduction story began to unravel Wednesday morning when her abandoned SUV was found near 15th and Chestnut Streets.

Surveillance video from the area apparently captured the 38-year-old mother and her Julia Rakoczy, with another woman. Sources say mother and daughter also were captured on surveillance video at Philadelphia International Airport.

There were also other inconsistencies in Sweeten's story that came to light as the investigation unfolded. Sweeten told a 911 operator that she was calling from Bucks County, but cell phone records indicate that call came from Center City. Also, there was a parking ticket on the SUV found downtown, written a half hour after the call.

Sweeten called 911 Tuesday afternoon to report that she and her daughter had been abducted following a fender-bender at one of the busiest intersections in Bucks County. She told the 911 operator they'd been kidnapped by two men after an accident on Street Road, near Second Street Pike and stuffed in the trunk of a black Cadillac (see related story).

[Peg]

Thanks for posting that Odie. My computer started acting up and I gave up and went to bed.

[Odie]

Originally Posted by Peg

Thanks for posting that Odie. My computer started acting up and I gave up and went to bed.

I had just then seen it.....I hadn't even seen your post..........


I just posted, I was that upset!

[Peg]

I'm glad they are okay. I just wonder what made the mother so desperate that she did this. I wonder why she took only one child with her. We may never have answers.

[Odie]

Originally Posted by Peg

I'm glad they are okay. I just wonder what made the mother so desperate that she did this. I wonder why she took only one child with her. We may never have answers.

I feel sorry for the daughter now......she will have no mother.



makes me wonder to Peg, why just the one child, and why that one?

[qsducks]

Originally Posted by Peg

Apparently, they weren't abducted.

Yes! She made the entire thing up and is now being charged with a few misdemeanors, etc. the daughter is reunited with her father and mom is in deep shyte.

[Sunshine]

Gotta wonder, What was she thinking?
Was she trying to run away an kidnapping her own daughter? Why the phone call about being kidnapped? None of this makes any sense.