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A Texas woman was arrested for allegedly kidnapping the 18-month son of a Honduran migrant mother, and then attempting to ransom the boy back to her.
Jenna Leigh Roark, 45, faces charges for taking the boy hostage last May, for holding him captive for five months, and for aiding and abetting in the scheme.
According to a criminal complaint, Roark had offered the woman a ride to an El Paso bus station, only to take the child hostage and then demand $8,000 for his return.
If convicted on the charges, Roark could face life in prison.
But Roark tells a completely different story, insisting that her husband had gotten into trouble with a Mexican gang and that she was then forced to take care of the child until the Honduran mother paid the gang a sum of money.
Jenna Leigh Roark, 45, faces charges for taking the boy hostage last May, for holding him captive for five months, and for aiding and abetting in the scheme
Roak was arrested in El Paso, Texas. If convicted on the charges, Roark could face life in prison
Roark was first apprehended with the child on September 16 when she was pulled over by the Texas highway patrol with three illegal immigrants in the backseat of her car.
Her 15-year-old daughter was sitting in the front seat with the boy in her lap, and when officers asked who he was she told them it was her other daughter's son, that his name was Aiden Smith, and that he was born on May 19, 2021.
Officers called Roark's other daughter to the scene, and when she arrived she said the boy was
