JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman has pleaded guilty to three felony counts in a failed attempt to have two men kidnap her daughter from the child’s father.
The Joplin Globe reports Elise Deboutez of Nevada, Missouri, pleaded guilty Monday to arranging an attempted child kidnapping, first-degree burglary and armed criminal action.
The Jasper County prosecutor’s office says the plea deal would limit the 28-year-old woman’s prison time to 15 years.
Police say Deboutez recruited two Joplin men at a party last October to kidnap her 1-year-old daughter from the girl’s father, who had been given emergency temporary custody of the child.
The father hid in a bathroom with the girl when two intruders entered his home. Two shots were fired into the room before the men fled, but nobody was hit.