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ROCKEFELLER Remanded in Custody, Court Orders
Clark Rockefeller, accused of abducting his own 7 year-old daughter, who was found safe and well two days ago, has been refused bail by a Boston Court and must be held in custody, a judge rules.
Rockefeller was ordered held without bail during his arriagnment in Boston Municipal Court on kidnapping and assault charges.
An emotionless Rockefeller, still wearing the rumpled khaki pants and blue shirt he has been seen in for two days, stared at the floor.
During a 20-minute argument, Deakin alleged that the combination of Rockefeller’s mysterious past, easy access to loads of money and violent nature of the kidnapping justified holding him without bail.
Deakin said Rockefeller had been planning a possible escape with Reigh as early as late 2006 - before his divorce from Reigh’s mother - when he started making trips to Baltimore to check out property.
Deakin called Rockefeller’s elaborate kidnapping ploy “astonishing.”
Plans to kidnap Reigh on July 27, the date Rockefeller spent time with Reigh during a parental visit in the Back Bay, had been laid for weeks, Deakin alleged. Deakin said that Rockefeller forced Reigh, who had been riding on his shoulders, into a waiting SUV and knocked down the supervising social worker as they walked on Marlborough Street. In the process, Reigh struck her head on the door and she began crying as she sat inside the car, he said.
“He used not only trickery, but violence to achieve his ends,” Deakin said.
Deakin said Rockefeller has refused to tell police when he was born, whether he is a U.S. citizen, who his parents are or where he was born.
“He is in fact a mystery man,” he said. “We simply do not know who this man is.”



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