A US couple upset that their 19-year-old daughter was pregnant tied her up, loaded her in their car and began driving to New York to force her to get an abortion, police said.
The daughter, Katelyn Kampf, escaped on Friday at a shopping centre and called police, who arrested her parents, Nicholas Kampf, 54, and Lola, 53, of North Yarmouth, Maine.
They were jailed on a kidnapping charge and were being held on $100,000 (€78,900) bail each.
“Her parents chased her out into the yard, grabbed and tied her hands and feet together,” Salem Police Officer Sean Marino wrote in a court affidavit.
“Katelyn states that her father then carried her to their car and they headed toward New Hampshire.”
Investigators said rope, duct tape, scissors and a .22-calibre rifle were found in the Kampfs’ Lexus and Nicholas Kampf had a loaded .22-calibre magazine clip in his trousers pocket.
The Kampfs were upset that their daughter was pregnant by a man who is now in jail, police said, and before leaving Maine on Friday they had an argument at the parents’ home.
Katelyn Kampf escaped from her parents in Salem after persuading them to untie her so she could use a Kmart store toilet.