The State - News from Sept. 18, 1987

A judge told the parents of a teen-ager charged with kidnaping and armed robbery that they “should be ashamed” for refusing to testify against their daughter. Redwood City Municipal Judge Norris Goodwin then dropped charges against Genia Moore, 18, of Atherton, who was accused of kidnaping her parents, Barbara and Howard Moore, when she and Luke Collura, 17, went on a two-state crime spree. The girl and Collura have already been convicted and sentenced for crimes in Riverside County and face additional charges in Nevada. “You should be ashamed of yourselves,” Goodwin told the parents. He threatened them with contempt and said they were “frustrating the process in the . . . prosecution of a felony.” Prosecutors then asked that the charges be dismissed for lack of evidence.