Second Man Convicted in Abduction of Girl
A second man was convicted in the kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl who chewed through duct tape to escape a squalid basement last summer.
The jury, which deliberated for four hours over two days, found James Burns, 30, guilty of Erica Pratt’s abduction.
Burns was at the wheel of a getaway car when Edward Johnson, 24, snatched Erica from the sidewalk outside her grandmother’s southwest Philadelphia home, prosecutors said.
Burns faces 35 to 71 years in prison. Johnson, who pleaded guilty days before the trial but did not testify against Burns, faces 32 to 64 years in prison.
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