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A twelve-year-old girl and her ten-year-old sister are accused of kidnapping a baby for ransom in northern Oklahoma.
No special treatment for the Enid, Oklahoma, girls. The sisters are handcuffed and going to juvenile jail, accused of kidnapping the one-year-old boy from his home.
"Im kind of wondering if maybe if it had something to do with maybe revenge," says Sheila Wells, the kidnapped childs mother.
Wells recently banned her other kids from playing with the accused girls because of a stolen purse, and says twice theyve broken into her home coming in the side door. This time, they took her baby boy.
"At first its like, how can a 10-year-old girl get charged with all these crimes, but shes done something very serious, and I mean, we didnt know if something had happened to my little boy," Wells says.
Wells son Brandon is just fine, but she says she didnt even know he was gone until one of the girls came over to say theyd found him on the corner. She went to their home and got her son then found a ransom note on her couch. It said, "If you want to see your son again, then you wont call police and report him missing, and you will leave $200,000 on the sofa tonight, and we will return your son back safe." It was signed, "the kidnappers."
Officers found Brandons diapers, some of his clothes and a stroller in the girls backyard. The boys father, Daniel Wells, blames the girls parents for not watching them more closely.
"The parents dont discipline very much, and what they do call discipline I wouldnt, you cant just have your kids roaming free. I mean, parents need to have something on their back, or they need to at least learn their lesson somehow," Wells says.
Enid police say this is a first in this department.
"Detectives interviewed them ask them why, where did you get the notion to do this, or where did you come up with this, and they really couldnt answer that. And at first, they really thought it was kind of funny until they actually got arrested," says Captain Dean Grassino with the Enid Police Department.
A judge has ordered the two girls held in a juvenile center on charges of kidnapping, extortion and first degree burglary.
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