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| A mother who hired an armed gang from New York to kidnap a 10-year-old boy has been jailed for 15 years. | A mother who hired an armed gang from New York to kidnap a 10-year-old boy has been jailed for 15 years. |
| Dawn Fields, of Clapham, south London, was found guilty of kidnap, false imprisonment and blackmail last week. | |
| Fields, 26, hired four men from Brooklyn to carry out the crime, Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court heard. | |
| The 10-year-old's ordeal began when £350,000 cash which had been wired from the US by Ms Fields' partner, Adonis Perez, was thought to have been stolen. | |
| The court heard the youngster's ordeal followed the theft of £350,000 that Fields' American boyfriend had sent to Britain to be laundered. | |
| Fields, who, according to her diary, initially prayed to God to have the money returned to her lover, turned to more violent means when the spiritual route proved unsuccessful. | |
| She launched an investigation and eventually identified a culprit, the court heard. | |
| Wrongly convinced he lived with the child's family, she then hired the three Americans, paid their flights to Heathrow and ordered them to return with either the money or the child. | |
| The gang tricked their way into the child's home and ransacked the property before forcing the child to kiss goodbye to his mother after being dragged away. | |
| His ordeal lasted two days before armed police rescued him from a locked bathroom after storming the place using flash and stun grenades. |