has been sentenced to life in just one of the four
jurisdictions involved...I read the book “I Know My Name
Is Steven” about a similar case in which a man kidnapped
a boy and held him for seven years... THAT guy is back on
the streets, IIRC (and the victim died in a motorcycle
crash later, with much of his short life stolen from him)
...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Stayner
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/midwest/view.bg?articleid=1036715
>>UNION, Mo. - A former pizza parlor manager was sentenced to life in prison Monday for the kidnapping of one of two boys he is accused of holding captive in his apartment.
Michael Devlin, 41, pleaded guilty to one charge of child kidnapping and one charge of armed-criminal action in the January abduction of 13-year-old William “Ben” Ownby.
>>It was the first in a series of hearings this week in four jurisdictions where Devlin faces more than 80 counts in the kidnappings and sexual abuse of Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck. He is expected to plead guilty to all of the charges against him, a prosecutor and a relative of the boys has said.
oops, I’ll amend that; Steven Stayner’s abductor isn’t
back on the streets. Wikipedia:
>>Parnell was convicted on February 9, 2004, on the charges of attempting to purchase a child and attempted child molestation, even though the child in question was nonexistent. Parnell was sentenced to 25 years to life under California’s “three strikes” law. ...prosecutor Tim Wellman said that Parnell “was looking for one last hurrah. One last Steven Stayner, one last Timmy White.”