New Excuse To Play The Race Card?

by: Louise

Thu May 28, 2009 at 07:00:14 AM EDT

An Amber Alert was issued earlier this week for a Pennsylvania mother Bonnie Sweeten,38, and her 9 year old daughter Julie, who were allegedly kidnapped:

According to WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, authorities are still searching for missing Bonnie Sweeten and her daughter, Julia Rakoczy, after what appears to be a carjacking and kidnapping in the middle of the afternoon.

Pennsylvania State Police issued an Amber Alert early Wednesday morning (May 27) for missing 8-year-old Julia Rakoczy after receiving several 911 calls from her mother, Bonnie Sweeten, who claimed to be calling from the trunk of a car. Sweeten said that she and her daughter had been forced into the trunk of vehicle after being rear-ended in a traffic accident.

The bizarre tale began when Bonnie Sweeten called the Philadelphia police around 2 p.m. Tuesday to report an accident. Her GMC Yukon Denali had been rear-ended by a black 1990's-style Cadillac.

When police arrived on the scene, according to Blink On Crime, witnesses informed them that two black men had forced a woman into the trunk of the Cadillac. The little girl had been placed in the back of the Yukon.

But neither vehicle supposedly involved was to be found.

But Bonnie Sweeten continued to make 911 calls. In all, Sweeten made seven 911 calls, a couple for an extended length of time. One of her first calls revealed that she believed that the kidnappers had also taken her vehicle, which was consistent with what police found at the scene of the accident. Sweeten's vehicle was later found early Wednesday morning, a parking ticket on the windshield.

But it seems that the story is far more bizarre... more below.

First clue: the pair were seen hours after the "abduction" on airport surveillance cameras in Philadelphia.

A security camera reportedly showed Sweeten and Rakoczy at Philadelphia International Airport, just hours after Sweeten made at least two 911 calls by cell phone saying she was locked in the trunk of a dark-colored 1990s Cadillac.

"It's a terrifying thing for a local community to hear that allegedly two black men in a Cadillac took a woman and her daughter," (Bucks County DA Michelle) Henry told reporters at a press conference Wednesday night.

"The fact that she would accuse anybody of doing something ... was a total fabrication on her part," Henry said.

Investigators uncovered that Sweeten allegedly was involved in stealing about $300,000 from her former employer.

Why would this mother do all of this?

Try this one: so she can take her kid to Disney World.

A suburban mother tracked to Disney World after claiming she and her young daughter had been abducted by two black men and stuffed into a car trunk will be extradited from Florida and charged with making false reports and identity theft, a prosecutor said.

Bonnie Sweeten and her daughter, Julia Rakoczy, were taken into custody Wednesday night at the Grand Floridian Hotel in Orlando, Bucks County District Attorney Michelle Henry said.

Henry told reporters that Sweeten borrowed a co-worker's driver's license and presented it as her own when she bought an airline ticket in Philadelphia and flew to Orlando with her 9-year-old daughter.

They had minimal luggage and the hotel was paid through Friday, Henry said. Sweeten had withdrawn about $12,000 from several bank accounts over recent days, but authorities were investigating whether that money had been stolen.

"We believe that there were some domestic concerns with her husband and some financial concerns as well," Henry said.

In the frantic 911 calls, Sweeten said two men had bumped her 2005 GMC Denali, carjacked her and stuffed her in the trunk of a dark Cadillac. She implied that her daughter was with her in the trunk, according to Philadelphia police Lt. Frank Vanore, who listened to tapes of the calls.

Sweeten, who is white, described her assailants as black but otherwise gave few details about their appearance, Vanore said.

Sweeten has two other daughters, a 15-year-old from a prior marriage and an 8-month-old with her current husband, a landscaper. Julia Rakoczy attended elementary school in Bensalem until she was withdrawn from classes May 1, said Susan Harder, an administrative assistant with the Bensalem Township School District.

Her ex-husband and the 9-year-old girl's father, Tony Rakoczy, described Sweeten on NBC's "Today" show as a good mother. He declined to comment to The Associated Press.

No, a "good mother" she is NOT- thank goodness her daughter is okay and the race card employed wasn't as horrendous as in the past...