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Giles County authorities are asking the public to be on the lookout for a 2-year-old boy who was reportedly abducted from a church in Ripplemead on Sunday.
The county Sheriffâs Office said Noah Gabriel Trout was taken from a nursery at Riverview Baptist Church by an unidentified woman sometime in the afternoon. Virginia State Police issued an Amber Alert and said the boy is believed to be in âextreme danger.â
The woman left in a dark-colored van or SUV from the church in the 200 block of Big Stony Creek Road, according to the sheriffâs office. Authorities did not have any information about who the suspect may be.
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Kidnapping of Giles County 2-year-old was done by a complete stranger, authorities say
His abduction led to an Amber Alert being issued
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The woman charged in connection with his abduction, Nancy Fridley, was a complete stranger to Noah Trout and the entire Trout family and he was chosen by her at random, according to the Giles County Sheriff’s Office.
“This was a calculated attempt the random was a calculated attempt to pull off one of these acts, and she had been in the area for a couple of weeks, I think that that shows some dedication,” Giles County Chief Deputy Scott Moye said.
HEATHER ROUSSEAU photos, The Roanoke Times
Verletta White, superintendent of Roanoke City Public Schools,
answers questions during a news conference Monday announcing a
three-part âEquity in Action Program.â A display board shows the
plan to build a new technical education center on the campus of
William Fleming High School, purchase The Roanoke Times building in
downtown Roanoke and move the school divisionâs administrative
offices there, and repurpose the current school central office
space into the Booker T. Washington Center for Community
Empowerment & Education.
HEATHER ROUSSEAU, The Roanoke Times
Kathy Duncan, principal of the Roanoke Technical Education
Center (ROTEC) and also career and technical education director for