A karate instructor named Jeff Doucet in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had abducted an 11-year-old boy in June of 1983 and taken him to California.
When Jody was rescued and returned to his family, his father Gary Plauche was coping with reports that his son had been sexually assaulted.
According to reports, Doucet had been molesting and abusing the boy for at least a year prior to the kidnapping. Police found Doucet and Jody in a motel and arrested him on a raid.
