Cali Mum Convicted After Son Was Nabbed, Cuffed & Taken To Missouri Christian School

Scary story about the the sketchy world that often exists in "faith based" education . . . 

A California woman will spend three years in federal prison for plotting to have her estranged son kidnapped and taken to the now-shuttered Agape Boarding School in southwest Missouri.

Despite her son’s restraining order against her, Shana Gaviola arranged in 2021 for her son to be taken against his will from a Fresno, California, ice-skating rink to the Christian reform school for troubled boys. Two people acting on Gaviola’s behalf abducted her son, then 16, and drove him 27 hours in handcuffs to Stockton, Missouri, according to federal prosecutors.

The teenager was “detained” at the school — which closed in 2023 amid findings of abuse — for about eight days until he was released to his father, prosecutors said.

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She sent her son to a Missouri boarding school in handcuffs. Now she'll serve prison time