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NY Woman Nabbed For Bizarre Toronto Casting Call Kidnapping

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Portrait of a kidnapper as a sexy princess (via MySpace).
And this is why our children will never be in pictures! A New York actress living in Toronto is being charged with kidnapping an Indian infant from a bogus casting call she set up on December 30. Michelle Marie Gopaul allegedly set up the call for a Bollywood-style shoot looking for an infant of Indian descent. When a baby she liked (and its parents) arrived, she asked to take it into another room for something and never returned. The baby turned up at a police station four hours later.

Gopaul, an aspiring actress and musician, had apparently been telling friends she was pregnant in the months before the kidnapping. The Globe and Mail recaps her actions before the kidnapping, which paints the picture of a very sad young woman in a very large hat.

The baby, who we suspect will never again be let out of the sight of her parents, is doing fine. Gopaul, who is being charged with the abduction of a person under 14, has had her bail denied.

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  • LazyNanny

    Who the hell brings their infant to an audition at 930pm?

  • Real people don't use myspace anymore,

  • ddhboy

    I'd love to learn about the series of events that lead up to this.

    I bet there was a boyfriend who left, and to save face she made up this whole pregnancy thing.

  • Waiting for the first, "I'd let her kidnap me" comment...

  • langleycollyer

    I'd let her kidnap me.

    Okay?

  • Gothamist commenters! They always come through.

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