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 The man involved, 23-year-old Nathan Firoved of Troy, a rural town
outside St Louis, has also been arrested and charged with felony
kidnapping and other crimes, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office
said in a statement.
The boy, who was not named, got off the school bus on Monday and
Firoved lured him into a pickup truck, told him he would never "see
his mommy again," and he would be "nailed to the wall of a shed,"
the office said.
According to the Sheriff's department, the boy's aunt, 38-year-old
Denise Kroutil, mother, Elizabeth Hupp, 25, and grandmother, Rose
Brewer, 58, wanted to teach the boy a life lesson and asked Firoved
to help them.
 The boy later told school officials what happened to him, and he has
been placed in protective custody. The four accused parties are in
jail under a $250,000 cash-only bond.
During the alleged kidnapping, which lasted an estimated four hours,
Firoved showed the boy a gun and told him he would be harmed if he
didn't stop crying, bound his hands and feet with plastic bags and
covered his face with a jacket, the sheriff's office said.
Firoved took the boy to a basement, where his aunt removed his pants
and told him he would be "sold into sex slavery," the statement
said.
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Some time later, the boy was untied and taken upstairs where his
family lectured him about "stranger danger."
"Family members told investigators their primary intent was to
educate the victim and felt they did nothing wrong," the statement
said.
(Reporting by Fiona Ortiz in Chicago; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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