Boy kidnapped for his name

notifying police of his whereabouts by telephone.
“She dreamt of having a boy named Ilya,” acting regional police chief Andrei Podolyan said at a Press conference. He did not elaborate, but said the kidnapper, who was 20, “possibly has kids.”
The boy followed the unnamed kidnapper because she told him his mother was ill, Podolyan said. He added that the boy was well treated and given some toys, but not let outside the woman’s house.
Kindergarten employees did not prevent Yaropolov from being taken away because the teacher responsible was absent on the day of the kidnapping, Komsomolskaya Pravda daily said. Two employees were sacked over the incident. The woman returned the boy at the insistence of her boyfriend, a 60-year-old man who saw an appeal notice for Ilya’s return in a bus, the report said. A sweeping search operation took place in the region after the boy’s disappearance. The woman’s boyfriend had served a term for child abuse and stored child pornography at home, the daily added, though police said the boy had no access to them. The duo and their friend who was aware of the kidnapping were not put under arrest. — RIA Novosti.