Couple Face Prison for Taking Children by Force
OREGON
After making emotional statements in court that everything they had done had been for their children, Ruth and Brian Christine were each sentenced in a Roseburg court to seven years in prison for taking their three daughters at gunpoint from child welfare workers.
Brian Christine must serve an additional five years for holding a pistol on two welfare workers before driving off in a state van with his children to flee to Montana.
According to testimony, police took custody of Bethany, then 5, Lydia, 3, and Miriam, 2, after an anonymous caller reported they appeared malnourished.
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