GRANITE CITY, Ill. (AP) - A southwest Illinois man has been sentenced to six years in prison for kidnapping a teenage relative and her newborn son.
The Belleville News-Democrat reports that a Madison County judge sentenced 40-year-old Christopher Derleth last month.
Investigator say the Granite City man took the teen and baby from a rural Illinois foster home in September 2016. He was charged with aggravated kidnapping and child abduction after the three were found at a makeshift campsite in West Virginia a week later.
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Derleth’s public defender didn’t respond to the newspaper’s request for comment Monday.
In October, Derleth was sentenced to 45 years in prison in a Bond County case on sex abuse and perjury charges. The Madison County sentence means he’s been ordered to serve a total of 51 years in prison.
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