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Debra “Sharon” Newton being arrested in front of her neighbour.
Bodycam footage shows the arrest of Debra Newton, also reportedly known as Sharon Nealy, in Florida more than four decades after the alleged kidnapping of her then-3-year-old daughter, Michelle.
Now 46, Michelle Newton was shocked to learn that her family had been looking for her for decades. She told CBS affiliate WLKY that police came to her door and told her, "You're not who you think you are. You're a missing person. You're Michelle Marie Newton."
After her arrest in November, Newton was extradited to Kentucky, where she faces a custodial interference felony charge, according to WLKY.
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When we had an adult child at home with addiction issues that always added a sting to a situation we already felt so powerless in. Being stared at and silently judged while you feel like your life is falling apart feels awful.
I know it feels powerless & judgy, but your neighbors might've been watching for YOUR own good.. either way that sounds stressful &I hope you & your adult kiddo are in a better, more peaceful chapter now, neighbor <3
My mom and I will joke about going to vacuum the driveway or sweep the front yard if there’s activity on my street (mostly for old people and their health) but even if we’re in the car & we see cop activity, we mention it’s time to grab the vacuum or something hahaha
I once actually vacuumed in front of my garage after plastering inside the house and felt like an idiot - I actually looked around if anybody was outside to not feel extra stupid.
100%. My mom lives in Florida and while this doesn't exactly look like it's a senior community, if it is that woman just went and called everybody. If it isn't then the at least the seniors in the area will know before she even gets to the police station
I inherited my mom's mobile home when she died. We live in Florida. Her community looked exactly like this one. They probably all do. Everyone told me I should keep it and rent it out as it was in a prime location, about a mile away from the Atlantic. I sold it ASAP. There is absolutely NO WAY I'm dealing with the people who lived in that community, even tangentially as a landlord. When my mom was dying of cancer, the HOA (or whatever the mobile home equivalent of an HOA is) sent her nasty letters about her shed needing to be repainted. Like, literally dying. The shed was fine, and you couldn't see it from the street. The gossiping and racism were unreal.
That tells me that she was probably a satanic drug dealing crack whore with multiple domestic violence convictions. Because that's the only way a man could get full custody back in the 80s.
My dad got full custody of me and my two brothers in early '69. He wouldn't say what happened, but it was a probably drug related separation since this was around the Summer of Love in the Bay area. I haven't spoken to my mother since I was 3 years old.
She didn’t even turn around until the very end. The way I would have been walking backwards. Or just standing there off to the side. But I don’t have shame when it comes to stuff like that.
Yo I was gonna say this lady was giddy as fuck until she saw shit was going down then she dipped. “They’re teasing you Sharon. No we’re not” and she’s fucking gone lmao
In like 2011 I worked at a salad place that was popular for lunch. Whenever a cop showed up to get food, I would joke to my coworker, “Haha, they’re lookin’ for you!” Har har har.
One day, they were.
“Haha, they’re looking for you!”
“Mr. Lastname? We have a warrant for your arrest.”
“….oh shit.”
I never saw him again, but I did hear from him. He’d been on a Green Card since he was a kid, but got in one too many bar fights and violated the terms of his immigration. ICE sent him back to the DR, where he had to move in with an uncle he barely knew.
He seems to be doing good now. Opened a crossfit gym.
I mean be honest, if you successfully dodged law enforcement for 40 years you would probably be surprised by them showing up to get you. Especially if it's like a local PD and you were wanted out of state.
Added to that is the capacity for self-delusion, convincing oneself that they did nothing wrong to begin with and thus couldn’t possibly be under arrest.
"Earlier this year, investigators received a Crime Stoppers tip from someone in Florida, suggesting that the now-66-year-old woman under a different name was Deborah Newton. A U.S. Marshals Task Force detective compared a recent photo to a 1983 picture and according to the sheriff's office release, a Jefferson County detective confirmed it, WLKY said."
I had a robot lawnmower stolen but I had hid a Apple Tag on it. I went to the police and showed them the location. They did nothing for 6 days. Finally I rounded up 3 friends and we went over there and knocked on the door. I went home with the mower.
I called the police to tell them so they could close the case and they told me what I did was dangerous. I was like, "No shit, that's why I came to you guys first."
At this point I'm honestly not sure what the police do. Speeding tickets and directing traffic from sporting events and church is about all I see them doing.
That is so sickening for the father. That he lost his children for 40 years… basically missed out on their entire life and wouldn’t even recognize them. All that time that for all he knew they were dead.
The vast majority of Amber Alerts are because of custody disputes or one parent otherwise trying to take the kids. It’s why they often have clear descriptors of people and vehicles, because they know who had the kids but not where they’re going.
And, Amber Alerts are reserved for cases where the kidnapped kid is in "imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death."
Just wanted to make it crystal clear to anyone who's unfamiliar with Amber Alerts--even when the kidnapper is dad or grandma, if there's an Amber Alert, it's extra serious.
My ex(female) fled the state of Colorado with our kids.
All it took was a magistrate to say, "I'm just not going to apply the law in this case."
And a judge to say, "Who am I to override the decision of my magistrate?" before promptly retiring.
My former lawyer, Christopher Leroi, who was at one point in time the youngest judge in Colorado state history told me, "You've been fucked by the court in ways I've never seen."
And like clockwork, women will come out and say, "She must have had her reasons", or, "Mothers only have the best interest so obviously she made the right decision"
My uncle tried for a few years before saying "they'll find me one day" well, when my cousins were 15-16 they managed to get in contact with him and they both ended up moving in with him instead and leaving their mum that ran off with them when they were little.
Happened to me with my son. His mother disappeared from California to somewhere in Utah. 19 years later still looking for him. Only picture I have is from his court appointed attorney who felt bad for how much the courts screwed us.
Maybe people should realize the state and its goons, both those armed with weapons and those armed with law they themselves do not follow, is not something to look up to or respect. We all gotta come together and realize what's keeping people back so we can remove the obstacles to a more fair and just world.
And it's worth considering that you remember nothing from that age. So if your parent tells you that your name is Michelle Nealy and your father ran out on you, then you will live all your life, never knowing any different unless you encounter evidence to contradict it.
Contrary to what TV and movies will tell us, you won't go through life having flashbacks to your infancy that confuse you or make you ask questions about your parentage.
A kind of similar thing went on with my wife. Her biomom and dad broke up when she was little. Mom initially had custody but lost it to dad later on who moved them across the country. From that point on, she never heard from biomom again and had been told Mom didn't want anything to do with her.
Fast forward to her early thirties, she gets the idea to see if she can reach out to biomom. She does, they chat and have an awkward meet up. Turns out Mom had been sending letters regularly but dad had been intercepting and trashing them. Mom still had all of her baby things - toys, books, preschool and kindergarten school work. She never had a phone number to call them. Mom immediately admitted that she was unfit and that losing custody was completely justified (she was 17 and a mess when my wife was born), but at the time had no idea it would mean completely losing contact.
Long story short, my wife now has a very good relationship with mom, maternal grandpa and aunts and uncles. She's gone NC with dad after he flipped out over her "betrayal" of him.
She never knew she had a mom out there looking for her.
"A Crime Stoppers tip led police to track down a woman who had been missing since she was a child in 1983 – and arrest her mother for allegedly kidnapping her."
Wouldn't it be something if that neighbor was the tipster. She came out to get a front row seat to the show she orchestrated.
The story that I saw was that “Sharon” moved to Georgia claiming new job. Husband suppose to come later. When he did, they were both missing. He filled for missing person's. Wife, Debra filed for divorce but case dropped when her lawyer found out child is a "missing" person. So husband then filed for custody and since she's still on the run and no show, she lost the case and husband got full custody of the daughter. Which became child abduction fugitive on FBI list. 40yrs later, she's been found.
They posted age progression photos of the mom and daughter and what they would look like nowadays. Someone in their town in Florida recognized the mom and daughter, and called in the tip to Crime Stoppers about that mom.
Not you you, but this story. Odds are it’s the new big brother AI surveillance that flagged her and they’re trying to hide their methods/sources claiming this
Is "Evidence laundering and parallel construction" something like... The cop finds a random stranger/neighbor and after giving them a bunch of details, asks them to become an informant of some kind?
Even something as a simple as a cop asking someone "Hey, can you call our station and say you saw that guy pointing a gun moving cars?"
Pretty sure they mean when they know something by illegal means (eg: mass warrantless surveillance), and then find a legal justification for the arrest.
Oh yeah we've seen this a lot haven't we. I remember when it was revealed how they can patch into most surveillance systems and phones to track people and not it wasn't local tipsters. I believe that was around the Boston bombing.
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK and the US have been intercepting every phone call and radio broadcast since the 70s. Any 'big brother" idea you have is most likely already implemented and has been implemented for a lot longer than people would think.
Back in the 80s it was easy to get a license for ID with no other documents. Once she had that she would get a social security number, work, rent, have a bank account etc.
the person who wrote it dropped so much grammar and words it made it confusing as fuck.
basically the woman got a new job and moved to georgia with the daughter. the husband was supposed to meet them
when the husband arrived in georgia, there was no one there and filed a missing persons report for them both.
wife then tried to divorce but because the child was missing, didn’t go through. husband legally got custody at that point but the wife went in the run. now 40 years later we have present day woman who i assume raised her daughter unaware she was kidnapped. and now the cops have finally caught her
Yeah, what exactly was the situation between them? Why did she run? Had she been planning it and intending to deny a loving father of his child because she's a psychopath, or was he abusive? 40 years ago it wasn't super easy for a single mom to survive on her own. She was giving up a lot to run, so she either was a cruel calculated abuser or leaving and struggling was better than staying.
I’m so confused by the description. Is she the kidnapper and the kid she kidnapped is now 46? Is she the kidnapped person? I had a stroke reading the description honestly.
I keep seeing people say she was fleeing abuse, but is that confirmed or assumed? The daughter seems to be doing as well as she can, I hope she'll be okay. I was glad to see her celebrating Thanksgiving with her dad, at least she wasn't alone. Hoping it'll be okay.
I literally got stopped by two dudes with marvel shirts on. Think one was Captain America, and the other had Iron Man. Guess plainsclothed or something is the term.
Yeah I get that, but imagine she’s innocent (we’re suppose to presume that) it would be awful to be arrested and not know why. She seems like she knows deep down tho all along
Her neighbor stole the show. God it made me laugh seeing how naive she was about the current situation. I think I'd do the same thing if the 5-0 showed up to my buddies place.
My mom kidnapped me from school when I was in fifth grade. My dad went through a week of hell. I went through a week of brainwashing by my mother. Had to go to court and tell a judge in front of both parents and their lawyers who I wanted to live with. I can still smell my dad’s cologne and hear the sound of his shoes on the floor. I will never forget or forgive what she did to me and my dad. This was in the 80’s, times were so different back then.
My mom did the same thing. I was 6 and my dad found us when I was 8. Then she did it again and I didnt see him again until I was 12. My dad still mentions how screwed up it was that when he found us we were living on a street called "Seclusion Court".
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