Kody Kaplon Helped Himself
March 4, 2009 by Jaded
…to a 3-year-old girl.
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Yreka, CA–A parent’s worst nightmare became reality for Ryan Collins and his wife, April Smith. At around 4:30 Monday morning, the couple awoke to the sound of their 3-year-old daughter, Francis, screaming. They ran to the child’s room and found her bed empty. The sound of a car starting could be heard…Collins ran outside and saw a man pulling out of the driveway, with Francis in the back seat of his car.
That man was 22-year-old Kody Kaplon. The parents say Kaplon is a family acquaintance and they’ve known him for years. They said he was staying at their apartment after having an argument with his wife. They never believed he could do something like this. After all, he is a parent himself. An Amber Alert was issued.
Kaplon had seen the alert and at about 2:00 p.m Monday, he called Yreka police through the Amber Alert line and asked why they were looking for him. Authorities located him in Hornbook and arrested him on suspicion of kidnapping.
A short time later, in the same general area, a group of friends found Francis walking down a service road about 15 miles out of Yreka. She was wearing nothing but a soaked T-shirt. As they were driving her out, they ran across a California Highway Patrol officer and the child was handed over to him. The girl was taken to Fairchild Medical Center in Yreka for treatment. After the child was treated and interviewed, it was discovered that she had been molested.
Kody Kaplon is now charged with kidnapping, attempted murder, false imprisonment, taking or holding a child without right of custody, willful cruelty to a child, committing a sexual crime against a child, burglary, and violation of probation. He is currently being held in the Siskiyou County Jail on $1 million bail.
CHP says the car Kaplon was driving got stuck in the mountains. He left the little girl alone, to fend for herself. Had she not been found, chances are, she wouldn’t have made it through the night.




















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