An Arkansas woman faces charges of staging a fake kidnapping of her disabled daughter to stop her from talking to strangers online.

Tamara "Tammi" Hamby, 59, was released from a Crawford County jail after she turned herself in to police on Wednesday. Authorities charged her and three other individuals with endangering an incompetent person. Tammi Hamby also faces conspiracy to commit kidnapping charges. According to an arrest warrant obtained by local CBS affiliate KFSM, Tammi Hamby allegedly devised the fake kidnapping to teach her 22-year-old daughter, who is mentally disabled, the dangers of talking to strangers online.

Jeffrey Hamby, Tammi Hamby's husband and the father of the woman, told the station that the family had been dealing with an online scammer for several months. Their da

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