kidnapper
kid na per
- n someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
- Another possibility explored was that a desperate childless couple paid a professional kidnapper to find a child.
- Since the judge determined that the kidnapper had acted with "deliberate cruelty," the rules allowed the judge to add 37 months to the 53-month sentence.
- The crisis of conscience was short-lived, but it was significant enough for the kidnapper to recall later in a confession he penned in jail.