Christi Baskin and her brother Bobby were snatched by their maternal grandparents when they were 8 and 7 years old respectively
Christi Baskin and her brother Bobby were snatched by their maternal grandparents when they were 8 and 7 years old respectively
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Bobby Baskin was seven when he was kidnapped. He is now married with children. pics/ap |
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Christi Baskin is now an ad executive |
A US couple is hoping to be reunited with their son and daughter who were kidnapped 20 years ago. According to police, Christi and Bobby Baskin were snatched by their grandparents, Marvin and Sandra Maple, in 1989 when the girl was eight and the boy seven.
The siblings have been living in San Jose, California, under the names Jennifer and Jonathan Bunting. She is now an ad executive, while her brother is believed to be married with children.
Their parents, Debbie and Mark Baskin, are now flying to the city in the hope of being reunited with them.
Mark said, "I'm a little bit fearful of what they think about us, because they have been brainwashed for 20 years." His tearful wife added, "It's a blessing to know that they were alive and well."
Granny's dead
Police closed in on Marvin Maple (73) on Monday after a conversation about the abduction was overheard in a San Jose restaurant. His wife, the victims' grandmother, died in March 2006.
The police lieutenant in the town where the Baskins stay said, "Maple was angry about a news report about the kidnapping and how it portrayed him."
Debbie added, "I can't imagine ever hurting my children, so what they've done to me has just been... I've never been able to understand it."
Speaking about her father, she said, "I know he's not a nice person, but he's still my father, and my heart is breaking. He is demented for what he did."
