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By JAMES HANNAH Associated Press Writer

A pregnant Ohio attorney found in Georgia three days after she disappeared is resting and was not physically harmed, her husband said.

Karyn McConnell Hancock, the daughter of a Toledo, Ohio, judge, says she was kidnapped at gunpoint by two men and a woman because they wanted to punish her, the attorney's husband said Monday.

``They wanted her to suffer. It has something to do with a case my father-in-law had before he became a judge,'' said Lawrence Hancock, husband of Karyn McConnell Hancock.

The 35-year-old woman, who is six months pregnant with her second child, disappeared Wednesday from Toledo and was found Saturday behind the Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park near Atlanta. Her car was found nearby. Police said she was last seen outside a juvenile court building in Toledo and reported having been abducted. There were no immediate arrests.

Details about where she was during that time, descriptions of her alleged abductors and the vehicle they were driving were unclear. She boarded a plane Saturday and returned home.

The FBI and Toledo police interviewed Karyn McConnell Hancock on Monday while authorities in Georgia continued to process evidence from her car. Police said the case remained under investigation and all leads were being followed.

The woman's father is Toledo Municipal Court Judge C. Allen McConnell. Lawrence Hancock said he doesn't know anything about the case that may have triggered the abduction.

Several messages seeking comment were left for Judge McConnell. He told the ``Today'' show that the family needs more time to find out the details of his daughter's disappearance.

``We need a little time to figure out what happened, what went on, what went wrong and what happened with her,'' he said.

Lawrence Hancock, who is the bishop of Final Harvest Church in Toledo, said his wife told him one of the men who abducted her had a gun and she was forced to ride in a vehicle with her kidnappers. She said she never knew where she was because she was blindfolded. She said her kidnappers stopped and allowed her to eat once a day, but she never tried to escape because they threatened her with the gun.

``They told her, 'Don't try anything,''' Hancock said.

He said his wife called him from a restaurant pay phone Thursday afternoon.

``She told me that, 'They have me.' She told me she thought she was going to die,'' Hancock said. ``She told me don't let her son forget her and that she loved me.''

He said the kidnappers released her because the case was drawing a lot of media coverage.

Lawrence Hancock said his wife's debit card was used to withdraw $300 on Tuesday night, the day before she disappeared, and that he doesn't believe it was connected to the kidnapping.

The kidnappers dumped her out of a vehicle in Georgia on Saturday morning, and she wandered to a back gate at Six Flags in Austell, Ga., said Sgt. Dana Pierce, a spokesman for the Cobb County police. The woman flagged down a motorist, who called police.

Karyn McConnell Hancock is former city councilwoman in Toledo.

(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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