Trial Date Set For Couple Accused Of Kidnapping Amish Girls
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) - A December trial date has been set for the northern New York couple charged in the kidnapping two Amish girls from their family's roadside stand last summer.
Local media report that a federal magistrate on Tuesday scheduled the trial to begin Dec. 15 in Syracuse.
Prosecutors say 25-year-old Nicole Vaisey and her boyfriend, 37-year-old Stephen Howells, are charged with sexually exploiting three children between September 2013 and August 2014 and Howells is additionally charged with six counts involving four children at other times.
The charges against the couple from Hermon in St. Lawrence County include kidnapping and sexually abuse charges stemming from the August abduction of 7- and 12-year-old Amish girls from their family farm stand in rural Oswegatchie, near the Canadian border.
The girls were set free by the couple the next day.
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