'Doomsday' mom in missing teen case believed world would end last weekend

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From an Alaskan jail cell, a Gilbert [AZ] mom is coming to grips with the fact her belief the world was ending last weekend was wrong, according to recorded court proceedings.

Spring Thibaudeau's alleged doomsday prophesy came to an end with her arrest Friday. Authorities located her, her brother, Brook Hale, her adult daughter, and her 16-year-old son who was listed as a missing person near the Alaska-Canada border. Spring and Brook had felony warrants for their arrest for custodial interference out of Arizona.

"She assumes the end of the world was going to happen this weekend, and obviously it's not," Ben said. "So they're all realizing that they've got to go back and reassess things that they've been reading."

Spring and Brook were taking [her teen son] Blaze to the wilderness to fulfill a role in the second coming of Christ, according to court records.

Judge: "whether [her beliefs] be spiritually based or organically based, she took extreme action to remove the child illegally from Arizona."


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On the plus side... world didn't end.
 

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@essentialsaltes , any links on why it was illegal? It was her son and her not-yet-ex hadn't filed for custody until the disappearance.

ETA: Appears it was the taking of the kid out of school without dad's permission, which implies that this was a legal requirement: MSN
 
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