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Family abducts, beats, abducts 9-month-old baby over legal CBD tea


 Raymond Cheley Sykes, 34, and Kaila Boulware, 27, were passing through North Carolina on their thanks to visiting friends in Florida earlier this month once they were targeted by police in an exceeding traffic stop. During the stop, Sykes was violently beaten with a baton before his family and their vehicle sought for two hours. At the top of the stop, Sykes was bloody and facing charges, Boulware was given a traffic ticket, and their 9-month old son, Truth, kidnapped by the state.


In a recent interview with NJ Advance Media, Sykes and Boulware recounted their horrifying experience and said they’ve been fighting for weeks to urge back their baby. They said they need no idea why cops started escalating as they complied with all their orders.

“Yahweh, please protect me,” Sykes said he shouted, consistent with NJ.com, hands in an exceeding prayer formation within the air as he walked toward the hood of the deputy’s car. “Don’t let these people hurt me.”

The official story differs from what Sykes and Boulware tell but since there was no dash camera footage and no body camera footage, it's their word against the states. we all know who wins these situations.

According to police, the officer alleged that the vehicle was driving “suspiciously” so he pulled the family over. During the stop, he presupposed to have smelled marijuana inside the car. The officer then claimed that Sykes punched him and that they had no other choice but to reply with violence.

The official police story falls apart, however, because they claim Sykes wasn’t injured during the beating. Sykes, on the opposite hand, has photos of his injuries proving them wrong.

“Neither Sykes nor Boulware were injured during their arrest and that they failed to request medical attention,” Montgomery Sheriff Chris Watkins said defending the violence apportioned by his officers that night.

However, Sykes’ injuries are in step with his version of events. in keeping with Sykes, when the officer was forcibly removing him from the car — after he questioned the reasoning behind an inquiry — Sykes put up his arms. That’s when the baton blows started flying which is why Sykes had severe bruising under his arms.

According to the couple, they were handcuffed and placed in separate vehicles because the cops kept bearing on their baby as “it.”

“He says ‘you’re never visiting see it again,’” Skyes told NJ Advance Media.

Both parents would likely endure more beatings to induce their son back, but thanks to archaic laws that make plants illegal, they don’t know when that may happen.

According to NJ.com, the 2 now face misdemeanor possession of marijuana and paraphernalia charges. However, no marijuana was found within the vehicle, only “paraphernalia.”

What’s more, the couple’s attorney, Jason Keith, said the officers found CBD tea, which might smell and appearance like marijuana, and, which is entirely legal.

Boulware also faces minor traffic violations stemming from the stop, and Sykes faces charges of resisting a public officer and assault of a government official, both misdemeanors in North Carolina.

“Every day that we’re not with him could be a tragedy,” Boulware said through tears. “I still have hope and faith in our heart….so we awaken and that we can go acquire our son and come back.”

To set the record straight, Boulware and Sykes don't seem to be criminals. per NJ.com, they're college-educated professionals who add photography and food distribution programs in New Brunswick. They also founded an educational program that rehomes dogs in New Jersey.

For now, however, because the state could be a violent machine that lays waste to people’s lives over arbitrary substances they deem illegal, this couple lives in a very hotel in North Carolina fighting to induce back their baby.

Friends have started a GoFundMe for the couple to acquire legal fees and court costs in their fight for Truth

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