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PORTLAND (AP) – A prosecutor said no additional charges were likely to be filed Thursday in the case of a North Yarmouth couple accused of abducting their pregnant daughter.

Cumberland County District Attorney Stephanie Anderson commented before a planned meeting with police on the case of Nicholas and Lola Kampf.

“I am meeting with (investigators) to go over a mound of information,” she said. She said she does not intend to rush her review of voluminous materials from multiple agencies to decide if additional charges are warranted.

Anderson has told police to say nothing further about the case and said she planned to say nothing further Thursday unless charges were filed.

The Kampfs, who are real estate developers, are accused of forcing their 19-year-old daughter Katelyn into their Lexus and tying her up with rope last weekend to drive her to New York for an abortion.

Katelyn Kampf escaped and called police during a restroom break in Salem, N.H., where the parents were arrested and charged with kidnapping. The parents were released Tuesday after posting bail of $100,000 each in New Hampshire.

Judges in New Hampshire and Maine have barred the couple from contacting their daughter.

To get the Maine order, Katelyn Kampf said she was in immediate danger of physical abuse. In paperwork filed in Portland District Court, she said she and her parents fought after she told them she was 20 weeks pregnant.

“My father and mother restrained me, bound my hands and feet with rope, then forced me into their car,” she wrote. “They said they were going to force me to have an abortion in New York and threatened to kill me and themselves.”

New York has a more liberal abortion law than Maine, allowing abortions until the 24th week of pregnancy. Maine strictly limits abortions once the fetus can survive outside the womb, which can be as early as 20 weeks, state health officials say.

Kampf’s parents confirmed much of her version of events, police say. Police found rope, duct tape and a gun in the car.

Sheriff Mark Dion said previously that Katelyn Kampf, who is white, told him her parents were upset that the baby’s father is black. He is Reme Johnson, 22, who is serving a 6-month sentence in the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn for theft.

Lola Kampf’s lawyer, Mark Sisti, said everything made public so far is based on Katelyn Kampf’s statements to police.

The public’s perception of the story will change once more evidence is revealed. “This was a very personal family problem, period,” he said.

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