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A Virginia woman and her boyfriend were charged Monday with the kidnapping of a 2-year-old boy from a small-town church nursery – a disappearance that sparked a widespread search by the FBI and state and local law enforcement and ended just over 24 hours later with the child s safe recovery.
At a press conference Monday afternoon, Giles County Sheriff Morgan Millirons announced that a first arrest had been made in the abduction of 2-year-old Noah Gabriel Trout. Nancy Renee Fridley, 44, of Clifton Forge, Virginia, is charged with one count of abduction and one count of felony child endangerment.
May 4, 2021
A two-year-old abducted from a church nursery in Virginia on Sunday has been found safe and a man and a woman have been charged with felony abduction and child endangerment.
44-year-old Nancy Fridley was taken into custody Monday. Later in the day, authorities confirmed that her boyfriend, Bobby Lee Taylor, had also been arrested and charged with one count of abduction. Investigators have not determined a motive.
After receiving information about the missing child, police located the boy at a home in Clifton Forge. He was unharmed and released to his family afters being checked out at a local hospital.
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PEARISBURG â Two-year-old Noah Gabriel Trout seemed lost â snatched from the nursery of a Ripplemead church â then a day later was found, the Giles County Sheriffâs Office announced Monday.
The happy outcome of the search for the toddler, who Virginia State Police said Sunday was thought to be in extreme danger, came after an array of local, state and federal agencies joined forces. Investigators identified a possible suspect and officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Virginia State Police swooped in on an Alleghany County location to recover Noah and arrest a Clifton Forge woman, Sheriff Morgan Millirons said.
Nancy Fridley, 44, has been arrested and charged with abducting a toddler
Two-year-old Noah Gabriel Trout was seen leaving nursery of Riverview Baptist Church with Fridley on Sunday, according to Giles County Sheriff s Office
Police said Fridley drove Noah 75 miles away to her home in Alleghany County
Fridley and her boyfriend, Bobby Lee Taylor, were arrested after police found Noah safe at the home on Monday afternoon
Noah was reunited with is family; it s unclear if his family knows Fridley or Taylor