The ex-husband of Bonnie Sweeten, the woman who faked her abduction and took their 9-year-old daughter to Disney World, said this morning he still believes she is a good mother who just had a “bad time.”
“She got herself in over her head a little bit,” Anthony Rakoczy said on ABC’s Good Morning America program. "... and kind of lost it."
Rakoczy, who is flying to Florida today to bring his daughter Julia home, said the little girl was a “little upset” but that she “sounds great.”
“When something like this happens you never know if you’re going to hear that little voice again,” he said. “I was elated to hear her voice again.”
He said he hopes his wife can get the help she needs and returns to being a mother so that one day they’ll look back as if nothing happened.
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Mondesire's comments in the other story are laughable...no offense, but as a white suburbanite, when I switch on the local news, 80% of all violent crimes seem to involve black males ages 18-25. It's great to point the finger at people like this whackjob for adhering to the stereotype, but can you blame her. As a black leader, once you have managed to clean up your community, only then can you start looking at other targets.— Justanothervoice- Here we go. Where did you get your statistics from? What does being a 'white suburbanite' have to do with anything? I am not going to waste anymore time with your comments, but it is obvious that you wear your narrow-minded thinking with a badge of honor. And I am sorry for that.— EP_Represent
- Justanothervoice, I think you were being conservative with your 80% estimate. In Philadelphia and its border towns (within 2 miles from the city limits), it's probably closer to 95%. It would have been more improbable, and certainly would have raised more suspicions with the police, had Sweeten alleged that she was carjacked by several white men.— delaina
Comment removed.- I used to not understand how or why so many white ppl hated blacks so much during all the craziness that took place during & b4 the civil rights movement. But the hate hasn't left, laws just changed. Of course not all whites feell that hate, that's obvious. Im talking to Mr. & Mrs. Racist. What's your problem???? "Blacks make up this percentage of this and they just violent and animals and the jail population is this...." Bunch of whack jobs. It must be taught throughout your life at home & by peers & the media because nobody's born racist. Stop being followers and believing anything you hear, like you probably believed this lady's B.S. story. You wake up. Coward Followers. Story of your life.— XmarksTheSpot
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- I'd probably have a jacked up view of the world also if I were raised by cowards too though, so it aint all your fault you're racist. I blame the cowards who raised you.— XmarksTheSpot
- it does seem more believable though that two black males kidnapped them over two white males. Its not being racist its just more believable.— lj23
- I'm a white guy and I agree that this racist nutcase should be charged with a hate crime. DHS really needs to look at this whole situation to determine if this child remains at risk in custody of either the mom or the dad. They both sound pretty unstable.— feudi
- Anybody who uses the word "black" is a RACIST!!!— EnoughAlready
- Oh really get back to as if nothing happened, I think all of my African American brothers and sisters should go to her house and protest! Unbelievable, out of all the lies to say you blame it on 2 black men who put you in the trunk of a car, give me a break! Yeah she needs help because that was totally uncalled for. If you are unhappy in your marriage then leave but to make up a story like that is unnecessary. She should be charged with hate crimes and anything else they can toss at her. If this was a black woman blaming 2 white males kidnapped her it wouldve made every national newspaper! I didnt believe this story for a minute I knew it was a lie, what kidnapper throws you in the trunk with your cell phone!— 215girl
- The whole story is awful, but I'm sick of these "abduction" stories and it's always that they're black. It's so racist and just horrible and it makes me sick to my stomach. I'm just glad the little girl is okay although she's losing her mother because she'd going to jail.— bd1979
- ok, if she should be charged with a HATE CRIME, then the black girl who accused the entire Duke Lacrosse team of raping her should be too.. what's fair is fair, right?? I guess that slipped Mondesire and the NAACP's mind.— sean77
- 1 in every 100 americans are locked up. 1 in every 9 black americans are locked up.so to make it more believable she said 2 black americans kidnapped her. its not being racist its just a more probable story— lj23
- Fact is, she was dumb in a lot of ways, but to invoke black men was another mistake because it inflamed a lot of unnecessary feelings. She should have said it was Osama bin Laden, then people would have pointed at George W. Bush.— Bake McBride
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