What lengths would you go to keep your child, if you had lost custody in the divorce? One father in St. Louis went a step too far, if you ask me. Jeffrey Stone kidnapped his five-year-old son, Porter Stone, who was awaiting a heart transplant. Porter’s parents have been involved in a bitter custody battle. Porter vanished after he was discharged with a backpack containing a medical intravenous pump and medication that would last only 48 hours. He was next on the transplant list to receive a life-saving surgery.
Luckily, authorities found Porter and his father the next day.
I don’t know what I would do if faced with the thought of losing custody of my children and not being able to see them again. I am pretty sure that if they were awaiting a life saving transplant surgery I would not take them away from their medication and the hospital that had them next on the list.
We've all heard of parents who have gone to extremes to be able to be with their children and who can blame them, aside from their ex-spouse and the law? I've heard in the news about parents kidnapping and taking their child out of the state, the country, changing the kid’s entire look just to be able to parent their child. Or is it just to make the other parent miserable? I’m not sure, perhaps, a little of both.
Then there are parents who have gone completely off the deep end and go to the extreme of actually killing their child under the thought process that if I can’t have you, no one can. Luckily, this is not how it turned out for little Porter Stone, though it very easily could have if the authorities did not find him and his father.
What lengths would you go to see your child if you lost custody?
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Have you considered that there may have been a reason there was a nasty custody battle? Clearly, the father was unstable.
They don't just go stripping parents of custody and visitation rights for no reason.
"If I can't have my kid, no will will." Sounds like this story here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57421209-504083/security-questions-after-infants-stabbing-at-baltimore-social-services-building
It's about a woman who stabs her infant in the neck during a supervised visit. She too said those same words.
This story should definitely be posted here.
^ That story is horrible and should have a trigger warning at the top of the post.
If he was willing to risk his son's life to keep him for himself, I say it wasn't a matter of wanting the child, I say it was a matter of revenge against the ex-wife.
Not ALL custody stripping is the fault of the parent. I've seen some CPS cases go horribly wrong and good parents be stripped of custody. However, this man displays CLEAR lack of stability by endangering his child's life, and it's therefore clear why he didn't have custody - he does not have the decision making skills required to be responsible for a child.
I watched this story play out since I, like the little boy, am from the Kansas City area. It was very hard to watch. And, like the little boy, I also suffer from cardiomyopathy. It hits close to home for me.
I would go to great lengths to have my son (I've never been at risk of NOT having him, so I haven't had to worry about it, but he is my whole world. I'd be devastated if I couldn't see him). But, I would also do whatever was best for him, and taking him away from that center is the worst possible thing that could have happened.