Clark Rockefeller, who was accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter, was charged with felony custodial kidnapping, assault and battery, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, after he was detained Saturday in Baltimore.
The girl, Reigh Boss, was found inside his apartment. According to Noreen Gleason, FBI's assistant special agent in charge of the Boston division, "Her first words were she was very happy to see very nice people ... she was ecstatic."
Although the little girl is now safe and sound, she may never have confidence in an adult person, specialists say. In line with Dr. William Pollack, a psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont and a member of Harvard Medical School’s faculty, “Children who are abducted have experienced traumatic disruption, and a loss of faith and sense of security in the adult world, the world that is supposed to protect them.” Kidnapping a child is a traumatic act for him because he doesn’t even think about it. “The child feels that people who should be trusted cannot be trusted,” Pollack said.
Children who underwent abduction never put out of their mind their suffering, said Dr. Sam Kelley, child psychiatrist and medical director of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Police officers also found in the housing unit 300 1-ounce gold coins worth an estimated $278,000, as well as $12,000 in cash. Many questions have been raised regarding this large amount of money. “It is clear he had arranged for a readily exchangeable currency,” said Suffolk Prosecutor David Deakin said. “The evidence of premeditation . . . is overwhelming.”
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said the investigation continued and police were still trying to find out the man's real identity and if he had an accomplice in the abduction.