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. <br />When Jody was rescued and returned to his family, his father Gary Plauche was coping with reports that his son had been sexually assaulted. <br />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.
