Kidnap suspect statements 'concerning'

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Court documents provide some answers on a possible motive behind the kidnapping of a 3-year-old girl.  

As 24 Hour News 8 reported Jan. 25, the child, who has special needs, was taken from her bus on Jan. 14 by a former neighbor -- a woman the girl's parents say they've never met. The girl was released unharmed within two hours of the kidnapping.

A statement from detectives that was used to get an arrest warrant for 26-year-old Marian Moussa sheds some light on why it happened.
 
In the statement, a Grand Rapids police detective detailed how Moussa allegedly convinced the child's bus driver that she had permission to take the girl off the bus.

The detective said Moussa put the child in her car and drove away from the apartment complex off of Camelot Drive SE.
 
Once officers located Moussa and the girl, the detective told a judge that Moussa made several statements that "were concerning about mental health issues, had the kid's backpack because she thought there was a bomb in it, things like that."
 
It is still unclear why Moussa chose the 3-year-old. Moussa's apartment is near where the girl and her family lived up until late December 2012. That appears to be the only connection.
 
The court document also confirms the girl and her parents do not know Moussa, which the victim's father told 24 Hour News 8 through an interpreter Friday.

"He didn't ever know her. Never spoke to her," said the father.

Moussa, whose Facebook page indicated she was studying at Cooley Law School, is out on bond and was given permission to return with her parents to her home in New Jersey to await her next court appearance.
   
The girl was not supposed to be dropped off at that location. The family had submitted the correct paperwork for the new drop-off address. Her father said the girl's morning bus driver picked her up at the new address, but it appears her afternoon driver went to the old home.  

School officials said Moussa may have used a name similar to one on a list of people who had permission to pick up the girl. They are investigating the bus driver's actions.