Summer Inman Missing: Family and friends hold vigil for Ohio mom
(CBS/WBNS) LOGAN, Ohio - Family and friends of Summer Inman, the Ohio mother of three who was allegedly kidnapped by her estranged husband and his parents more than a week ago, came together on Monday night for a vigil to pray for her safety.
Pictures: Missing Ohio woman Summer Inman
Inman has been missing since last Tuesday.
Almost everyone who lives in Logan, a town a few miles southeast of Columbus, came out for the vigil - whether they knew Inman or not. The vigil organizers said they created the event to show Inman's family that the community cares, reports CBS affiliate WBNS.
"It's been very tough," said Inman's cousin, Kimberly Tripp, to the station. "I have held on the fact that they have her somewhere and she is fighting to get home with her kids and her family because her kids are her world."
Tripp says they have been trying to keep Summer's children on a daily routine to restore some normalcy to their lives. Tripp hopes that the vigil would serve as a reminder for everyone in the community to do what they can to help bring Inman home, the station reports.
Pictures: Missing Ohio woman Summer Inman
Inman's estranged husband, William A. Inman, 26, and his parents, William A. Inman, 47, and Sandra Inman, 46 remain in the Southeast Ohio Regional Jail after their arrests last week, reports the station.
In court documents pertaining to William and Summer Inman's divorce, Summer claimed her husband "threatened to kill" her if she ever "took the children from him." She also said her husband would take her car keys, wallet and cell phone to leave her "captive" in their own home, the station reports.
She also stated in the documents that her in-laws would "gang up on me to just work things out," reports the station.
A judge granted Inman a civil protection order in November.
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