Guilty pleas in naked abduction

LEDUC, Alta. — Three people in Alberta have pleaded guilty after being charged in a bizarre naked kidnapping case that might have involved hallucinogenic tea.

Two women and one man, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban, pleaded guilty in Leduc provincial court on Monday to unlawful confinement.

A 36-year-old woman pleaded guilty to dangerous driving.

Sentencing is scheduled to take place Dec. 20.

RCMP have said that three members of a family were forced against their will from a home south of Edmonton, and into a car with several naked people inside, on Nov. 6.

Officers were tipped to the drama after receiving a call about a crash between a car and a truck near Nisku, Alta.

Inside the truck, they found the three victims — a man, his adult daughter and her baby— who had apparently been rescued by the truck’s driver.

And inside the car were five people — four of them were naked. Two of those without clothes were youth. No one was hurt.

Two teenage sisters in the car were not charged. Their father told the Canadian Press at the time that the girls had been having breakfast with his exwife and a married couple. He said it’s believed the group unknowingly drank some hallucinogenic tea brought back from a recent overseas trip.

The father said the girls didn’t remember what happened.

The victims said last year that they knew the accused as neighbours and that they were all members of the same Jehovah’s Witnesses church.

They said that one of the female suspects had shown up at their front door, with her clothes on, acting frantic. But with her were four others who were naked.

The family said they were forced out of the home and into a BMW. The man was allegedly put in the trunk and his daughter and her baby into the car with the others.