Kara Beth Borden & David Ludwig

Cause for Concern

Kara Beth Borden

Lately, though, by all accounts, the Bordens had started to worry about Kara. The young girl, often described by friends and neighbors as a bubbly and vivacious teen, a girl, who true to her upbringing listed Jesus at the top of her list of favorite things, had been going through some changes. She was spending an inordinate amount of time on the Internet, among other things.

Michael and Cathryn had become convinced, it would later be reported, that much of the change in Kara could be traced to her relationship with David Ludwig. The relationship troubled them. It wasn't that Ludwig came from a bad family. He didn't. In fact, like Kara, he was raised in a solid Christian home, and like Kara he had been tutored at home. In fact they had met at an outing for home-schooled children.

But he was older, 18, far too old to be dallying with an impressionable young girl like Kara, they reportedly believed. They had tried to put a stop to it, by all accounts, at one point even cutting off her access to the Internet. But that hadn't seemed to work.

The family, people who had always believed in tackling issues head on, decided that the time had come to confront the young people directly.