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The Red and Black • Tuesday, April 17, 1990 • 5
Yager claims police just ‘want to shut me up’
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Faye Yager said
Monday she was arrested on kid
napping charges by authorities
who “want to shut me up” and close
her underground network, which
hides children she believes have
been abused by their fathers.
‘Tor once I was doing everything
to keep it as legal as possible, not
breaking the law," Yager said of
her efforts to help a Florida woman
and her two children — a girl, 8,
and a boy, 10 — who sought shelter
from the woman’s husband.
“It looks to me like if you do
things legally, you end up in jail,"
she said in a telephone interview
from a Southern Baptist mission in
Swainsboro, where she went to rest
following her release from jail.
Police Lt. Robert Pittman of sub
urban Cobb County, where Yager
and a friend were charged Sat
urday, said the Florida woman and
her children are staying in the At
lanta area temporarily while au
thorities investigate the case, but
he declined to disclose their where
abouts.
Yager, 41, a resident of Sandy
Springs north of Atlanta, is affil
iated with a controversial under
ground network that shelters
abused children.
She and Barbara Ann Mullis, 48,
of Millwood were arrested Sat
urday by Cobb police. Each was
charged with kidnapping and
cruelty to children and freed on
$15,000 bond.
Cobb police said Yager and
Mullis are accused of kidnapping
the Florida woman’s daughter
from a Cobb County motel. The
girl’s mother called police Sat
urday morning to report the inci
dent, they said.
Yager said the girl’s mother had
contacted her and asked her help
in getting the daughter and a son
away from her abusive husband.
Yager said she took the girl with
the mother’s permission last
Tuesday and had remained in daily
contact with the woman.
“I did not kidnap this child," she
said. "If I was going to kidnap
somebody’s kid, would I take them
to my house? Would I have had her
playing in my front yard?"
Yager’s history with Cobb
County authorities dates back to
1973, when the courts gave custody
of her own daughter to the child’s
father, 42-year-old Roger Lee
Jones. In 1986, Jones was indicted
on nine counts of child molestation
involving three minors in Venice,
Fla.
In May 1988, the FBI placed
Jones on its 10 Most Wanted List.
He was arrested last year in Butte,
Mont.
For the past three years, Yager,
now married to an Atlanta physi
cian, has spent most of her time
trying to help children who she be
lieves have been molested. She
said her network stretches into
every state as well as into other
countries. She estimated she has
helped about 500 families.
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