INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana State Police (ISP) detectives have arrested three women for kidnapping a seven-year-old from Indianapolis. The child was located in Texas and is safe. The youngster is currently with child protective services awaiting reunification with the father.
On Monday at 7 p.m., ISP in the Indianapolis District was contacted about an alleged child abduction. The case was complex and spanned several jurisdictions. Investigators began following leads provided by the child’s father. Detectives worked through the night and eventually determined the seven-year-old was with their biological mother in Ft. Worth, Texas. She does not have legal custody. State police coordinated directly with Ft. Worth Police who located the child and arrested the mother, Brandy Clark, 43.
Detectives learned two adult half-sisters to the child supposedly conspired with the mother to plan and conduct the abduction. The two women, Sydney Rochez, 26, and Symone Bailey, 25, convinced their father, also the seven-year-old’s father, that they were taking the child to an amusement park in southern Indiana. The two women picked up the child from their father’s house in Indianapolis on June 19 and were supposed to visit the park the next day. Detectives were able to determine that Rochez and Bailey instead drove to Missouri. The child then boarded a plane with Brandy Clark (mother) and flew to Texas.
When the child’s father contacted Rochez and Bailey, they told him that while they were at the amusement park the child’s mother arrived and took the child from them. They told their dad they believed the mother had seen a post on social media alerting her that the child was at the park. It was discovered that the social media post was part of their abduction plan. They created a fictitious post about being at the park and Brandy Clark was in on it.
Clark was taken into custody in Texas and faces Kidnapping Charges. Rochez and Bailey were arrested in Indiana by ISP troopers on the preliminary charges of kidnapping.
