Former U.S. Marine to Face Abduction Charges
A former U.S. Marine was extradited from Germany to Britain to face charges of child abduction and inciting a child to an act of gross indecency in a case involving a 12-year-old girl he met on the Internet.
Toby Studabaker, 31, was arrested in Frankfurt on July 16, four days after he and the girl flew from Britain to France. Studabaker, of Constantine, Mich., did not contest his extradition. He said that he did not have sex with the girl and that he thought she was 18. She told her parents that she was not being kept against her will.
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