Neighbor of mom accused of kidnapping her daughter
- 42 years ago - assumed arresting cops were joking...
This pretty funny video (see below) shows the moment an unassuming mom was busted for kidnapping her daughter 42 years ago - with a neighbor laughing and joking with the cops, assuming they couldn’t really be arresting her friend.
Debra Newton, 66, was chatting to her pal while walking her dog on Nov. 24 outside her home in Villages when several Marion County Sheriff’s deputies rolled up on them.
The neighbor immediately starts kidding around with them, clearly never expecting them to be about to arrest Newton, whom she knew as Sharon Nearly, the alias the fugitive mom had been using.
“They don’t want me!” Newton replies, before turning to ask nervously: “What’s up?” “We’re here for you, ma’am. definitely here for you,” a lead officer then notes, telling her they have a warrant for her arrest.
Newton was wanted for allegedly kidnapping her daughter, Michelle Marie Newton, in 1983 — who had no idea about her past when she was found living in Kentucky under a different name. The mom moved her and her daughter from Louisville, Kentucky, to Georgia under the pretense of starting a new job and setting up their new home - but disappeared by the time her husband, Joseph Newton, got there.
It’s not exactly clear when the mother abandoned her daughter, but Michelle, now 46, was raised under a different name and was none the wiser for her whole life.
Her mother, now 66, started going by “Sharon” and started the new life in Florida - here in The Villages. See? Ya never know what kinda hardened criminals and ne'er-do-wells might be living right next door to ya...
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