The mother of a young boy she says was kidnapped by Randall Hopley four years ago is horrified by news that he may have abducted a three-year-old B.C. boy.
The Kelowna woman, who cannot be identified because her child is in foster care, says that when she heard about the disappearance of Kienan Hebert on Wednesday, it was almost too much to take.
"Words cannot describe how I felt, and it was like re-living the nightmare all over again," she told CTV News.
Along with a break-and-enter charge Hopley pleaded guilty to in 2008, he was also originally charged with unlawful confinement and abduction of a person under the age of 14. Those charges were stayed.
The boy in that case told his mother that he was molested by Hopley on at least two occasions.
"I said, ‘Buddy we've got to talk.' He said, ‘OK Mom, it was Randy Hopley.' And he told his sister and he told me every graphic detail," she said.
"He said mommy, he had me halfway dragged out that window, but they caught him."
She says her son has struggled since his ordeal, but he's doing better now.
When Hopley returned to Sparwood this summer after serving time in prison, she says she tried to warn neighbours and police.
"I told people, ‘You know, he's going to strike again. He's going to strike again.' But no one believed me. Well, I guess now they do," she said.
Now that Hopley is suspected in Hebert's disappearance, she just wishes there was something she could do to help the little boy and his family.
"I really pray to God they find that little boy," she said.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Kent Molgat
