Babysitter only realizes he's looking after abducted child when he reads Amber Alert on Facebook

John Truong thought he was helping his sister have a nice night out with her boyfriend. Instead, he ended up an unknowing accomplice to a bizarre abduction.

 

Police arrested Truong's sister Alyssa Chang this week after she allegedly helped kidnap 2-year-old Ronnie Tran and his mother, with the child's grandmother, 65-year-old Vien Nguyen.

Authorities say Chang and Nguyen incapacitated the child's mother at her home in Des Moines, Washington, bound her with plastic ties and then took the two to another home in Fife. Chang and the grandmother then took off the the toddler, leaving the mother locked in a cupboard.

An Amber Alert was issued for the boy Tuesday night, after the mother managed to escape and find help.

That same night, Truong says his sister asked him to babysit the toddler he had never met before, saying it was her boyfriend's son and they wanted to go out on a date night.

She promised to pick up the boy in the morning, but she never returned and eventually stopped answering her brother's messages. 

It wasn't until the next day that Truong realized he was harboring an abducted child when he read an Amber Alert on online. 

'I'm eating my breakfast, I'm checking my Facebook, all of a sudden I see this Amber Alert for this child,' Truong recounted to KOMO. 'And it looks like this child in my bed, and I'm like, "Oh my God! What's going on?"'

Truong then called police to report that he was watching the boy, who they found safe, sound an unhurt at his home.

He says the boy appeared fine the night before, enjoying a quiet night in watching movies and eating popcorn. 

'He was a great kid. He didn't cry much or anything. He enjoyed my dog's company and my children's company,' Tuong said.

Truong says he was completely taken aback by his sister's arrest in the bizarre kidnapping. 

'I feel like she was just helping her boyfriend out and just got into this horrible situation,' he said. 'We're family people, this is definitely not like this. Honestly I'm at a loss for words right now. It's just crazy.'

Source:Daily Mail