Kidnapped 9-year-old reunited with father; mother charged

? A 9-year-old boy who was abducted from his father’s home in the middle of the night by two men has been reunited with his father, authorities said Saturday.

“He’s very exhausted from the whole ordeal,” said Lisa McConnell, a spokeswoman for the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. “He seemed very happy to be back with Dad last night.”

Debra Rose, center, is led by Riverside County deputies to a Palm Desert police car on her way to jail. She was charged Saturday in the kidnapping of her 9-year-old son, Nicholas. The boy was reunited with his father Saturday.

Nicholas Farber was found Friday at a campground in Jamul, about 20 miles east of San Diego. His mother, Debra Rose, and a man with her, Michael J. Riley, were taken into custody, authorities said.

Rose, 38, and Riley, 48, were both booked into the Riverside County Jail. Rose was charged with felony child abduction. Sheriff’s Deputy Lisa McConnell said more charges are pending against Rose, Colorado Springs, Colo., who is suspected of orchestrating the boy’s violent abduction from the house he shares with his father.

Federal authorities also are expected to file charges against Rose.

Riley was booked on suspicion of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Bail for each was set at $1 million.

Riley was not one of the two assailants who abducted Nicholas at gunpoint from his Palm Desert home Wednesday after beating the boy’s father, Michael Farber.