The offender was found guilty by a jury of assaulting an unrelated child and attempting to abduct his own child, whom he had not seen in over a year.
The offender, who suffers from mental illness and represented himself at trial, mistakenly grabbed the unrelated child before grabbing and pulling his own child towards a car.
The court applied the Kienapple principle to stay two other findings of guilt, and sentenced the offender to 12 months in custody (net 4 months after pre-sentence credit) followed by three years of probation.
