Family of Kidnapped Bethany Arceneaux Will Not Face Charges for Shooting

Police have announced that the family of Bethany Arceneaux will not face charges in connection with the shooting death of her kidnapper. It’s not that the police are letting an act of vigilantism go unpunished. Rather, the police have determined that Mrs. Arceneaux faced immediate threat to her life as her kidnapper had begun to stab her with a knife prompting the use of deadly force by her family who had tracked down her whereabouts in the town of Duson, Louisiana.

The kidnapper was none other than Mrs. Arceneaux’s baby daddy, Scott Thomas, and when he began to savage her with a knife, her cousin opened fire. The photograph of a bloodied Bethany Arceneaux shows her being carried in the arms of her uncle. Police have ruled that her cousin acted lawfully in accordance with state laws permitting deadly force to protect someone from physical harm.

“She’s shook up, she’s sliced up, but she’s all right,” said Ryan Arceneaux, the woman’s brother. He and another brother, Kaylyn Alfred, were among the family members who entered the house. “We found her. We went and got her in that house. We kicked doors down. It was like a movie unfolding.”

It took roughly 48 hours for her family to track her down to the abandoned home where her captive held her. The family then kicked down the door in a scene they said could easily have been depicted in a film. Her kidnapper truly picked the wrong family to harass. Mrs. Arceneaux is now recovering from her wounds in a hospital.

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