{"id":289630,"date":"2026-04-28T12:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289630\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:19:17","slug":"a-mother-was-sentenced-to-3-years-in-prison-for-kidnapping-her-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289630\/","title":{"rendered":"A mother was sentenced to 3 years in prison for kidnapping her son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman was sentenced to three years in prison for kidnapping her son while being prohibited from contacting him.<\/p>\n<p>A district attorney announced that 39-year-old Shana Gaviola from Fresno was sentenced to 3 years in prison for kidnapping her 16-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred back in 2020, when Gaviola and her son began living apart, and her son was living with another family.<\/p>\n<p>He petitioned for emancipation from Gaviola and obtained a domestic violence protection order against Gaviola from the Fresno County Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>The order prevented Gaviola from harassing, blocking the movements of, or contacting her son in any way, including directly or indirectly.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, she arranged plans to have him forcibly transported from California to Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>People working for Gaviola abducted the minor from an ice-skating rink in Fresno, handcuffed him, and forced him into a car.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/middle-school-track-coach-arrested-for-possession-of-child-porn-in-merced-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Middle school track coach arrested for possession of child porn in Merced County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He remained in handcuffs for more than 24 hours while they drove to Stockton, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>He was then held at a youth facility until his father was able to free him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman was sentenced to three years in prison for kidnapping her son while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-289630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}