When it comes to protecting your children, a couple of grandparents went over the line.

The couple, in an attempt to stop their daughter in law and their three grandchildren from testifying, offered to pay for a hitman to kill the four individuals.

The four individuals are expected to testify in the rape trial of the grandparents 31 year old son.

According to detectives, the 31 year old man's daughter and two step daughters are the victims of the crime.

Court records show that the man is being charged with 22 charges of sexual battery on a child, lewd and lascivious molestation and showing obscene material to a minor.