5-year-old safe after accused kidnapper takes him from SE OKC school; school security under scrutiny

A metro mother lived out her worst nightmare after learning her child was abducted by a stranger. Gabrielle Elix accused school staff of allowing her five-year-old son to walk away with a man from Santa Fe South Shidler Elementary in southeast Oklahoma City.

Elix wants other parents to be aware of how easily Kerry Nelson, 37, allegedly walked away with her son, and for the school to be held accountable.

“It’s like a Lifetime movie thing,” said Gabrielle Elix, son kidnapped from school. “You don’t think that stuff is real.”

Elix said the screenshot from school security footage of Nelson leading her son away from the school sent chills down her spine…

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