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Robert Lowery, the vice president of the Missing Children Division at the Virginia-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, says a “stereotypical infant abduction” often involves “a female abductor and the murder of the mother.”
Fieramusca allegedly abducted both mother and daughter on the morning of Dec. 12.
She was charged Friday morning with two counts of kidnapping and one count of tampering with a corpse, according to a spokesperson from the Travis County District Attorney’s Office. Murder charges have not been filed in this case.
Speaking generally about child abduction cases, Lowery says, “The motivation of these women who want an infant is almost always to preserve a relationship. They presented themselves as pregnant to a husband or boyfriend who they may be in a rocky relationship with to solidify their relationship, in most cases.”
Magen Fieramusca.Courtesy of Humble Police
By and large, these sorts of abductions are always from residences, Lowery says.
Lowery says the fact that Fieramusca is accused of kidnapping Broussard as well as Margot is unusual.
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Lowery also says that in most cases, the alleged abductor is a stranger.
“Typically, they’re strangers that do this, or someone who knew the woman passively and they would disappear with the child, take the child out of state and raise the child as their own,” he says.
source: people.com
