Baltimore police have reversed a decision not to investigate the reported abduction of a 15-year-old girl unless her parents consented to allowing detectives to interview the teen alone, her parents said."We heard from a detective who said he would meet with us and was interested in the case," said Dornita Scott, the girl's mother said Saturday. "He said he would meet with us next week." Last week, the Baltimore teen said she was ordered into a black Mercury sedan by a man wearing a chef's outfiit, as she walked to a bus stop in Noortheast Baltimore. The ordeal ended in Northwest Baltimore when the teen's abductor ordered her to pick up some cash at a house. The teen then escaped and called police, who did not show up until a second call by the teenager more than an hour later.
Police eventually picked up the teen, but dropped her off outside her grandmother's home without taking a report, calling her parents, or confirming that her grandmother was home. Later, police said it was departmental policy to interview juvenile victims without their parents present. After Scott and her husband refused to allow their daughter to be interviewed without them, police ruled the abduction "unfounded."
This is Baltimore policing at its finest. What parent would let the police interview their child without them being there?
The police closed the books as "unfounded" so that the crime, if it occurred, would not be listed as a crime, thus lowering the crime stats.
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