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MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. - An 18-year-old Norfork woman arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a Mountain Home toddler may have taken the boy as a means to start a relationship with an old boyfriend, an investigator said.
Police arrested Samantha Ann House-Baser in the kidnapping of 16-month-old Aiden Chase Mullin, who was taken from the Open Arms Learning Center on Monday morning. Mountain Home Police Department Criminal Investigator Nevin Barnes said officers arrested House-Baser after getting a tip from a man who saw her with the young boy.
After taking Aiden, House-Baser called a former boyfriend and told him she had his baby, according to Barnes. The detective said getting the former boyfriend's attention might be part of the motive for the abduction.
"I think she's got a troubled past and I think all that just came into play," Barnes told Mountain Home radio station KTLO. "I think she was trying to possibly get an old boyfriend back."
The boy's parents didn't know their son had been abducted until his mother went to Open Arms Learning Center to pick him up Monday afternoon. A woman, who told employees of the facility she was a family member, had taken the boy around 11:30 a.m. on the pretense of a family emergency.
Barnes says they don't know why Aiden was targeted by the suspect. He says police can find no relationship between her and the Mullin family.
House-Baser was being held Tuesday afternoon at the Baxter County jail on $500,000 bond.
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