"Everybody has their fifteen minutes of fame".
IMHO, this entire thread has given too much attention to something very trivial.
At worst, this parent is just another crap hole with an iPhone addition.
In fact, as I attempted to explain in an evidentiary manner, he likely isn't even responsible for "creating" the helicopter involved.
That hasn't stopped everyone from weighting in with doomsday scenarios about how he's an abusive parent. The rest of the nonsense about a child being kidnapped is mostly Chicken Little, "the sky is falling" histronics, engineered to cast the poster in a righteous light, and as a paragon of virtue.
The truth is, most child "kidnappings" are performed by people known to all the parties involved, estranged, bitter, parents, and the like.
Then too, a kidnapping for money has to involve a well to do family. It really is pointless a hold a child at ransom, who is from a family on public assistance.
Even if we assume that the family in question is quite wealthy, the answer would be a professional bodyguard, and a limo to a private school.
So, most of this thread is pure sensationalism, better suited to "Access Hollywood", than a technically oriented website.
Forgive me, I'm from a bygone era, when children walked themselves to school after being shown how. And know what, women even had healthy children without benefit of a couple thousand dollar ultrasound, the photos of which are passed around to show other parents how "cute" their babies are, as short term fetuses. I can't understand why nobody can afford health insurance, can you?
...[ ]....if your kid goes "cold", would you simply create another child?
Take this for what it's worth; in my neighborhood that's pretty much exactly what is done. And why not pop out another if an earlier attempt gets murdered, or is doing a stint in the state pen.
You have to find a way to see to it your social entitlements continue without let up.