Police: Alleged Kidnapping Turns Out to be True Love

When Simpsonville Police were recently called to a local apartment by a fearful mother in response to an alleged kidnapping, they found something altogether different.

Police were dispatched last week to a Simpsonville apartment complex by a mother who stated that her daughter had just been kidnapped by an ex-boyfriend, a police report said.

The mother told police that the 35-year-old boyfriend had shown up outside the apartments and that her daughter went out to speak to him. The mother said the man told her daughter to get in the car whereupon the couple promptly sped off, the report said.

While police were on site, a family member called the supposed victim, the report said. An officer spoke with the victim who, it turns out, was only a victim of love. 

"She advised me that she left willingly and on her own free will and was not forced to go," the officer stated in the report. [She] stated 'I love him and want to be with him." [She] did not sound to be in any distress or upset…."

"I advised the [mother] that [her daughter] was old enough to make her own choices and… according to her she left on her own," the officer stetted in the report. "Nothing further."