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Boardman man pleads guilty to abduction

Plea deal agrees to probation in case involving daughter

YOUNGSTOWN — Kahlil L. Sheridan, 24, of Cook Avenue in Boardman, pleaded guilty Tuesday to the June 25 abduction of his daughter, Nova, who is now 1.

Sheridan pleaded guilty to a felony that could result in a sentence of up to three years in prison.

But the plea agreement worked out between Mahoning County prosecutors and the defense is for him to get three years of probation. Prosecutors will ask that Sheridan have no contact with the child, said Kaitlyn Andrews, assistant prosecutor.

Attorney Paul Conn, who represents Sheridan, will argue at sentencing before Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court that Sheridan have contact with his daughter.

Youngstown police issued an Amber Alert after Sheridan took the child from her mother’s house on Moherman Avenue. Sheridan and the child’s mother did not live together.

Police from Youngstown and other agencies located the girl about 12 hours later at a residence in the 1600 block of Tanglewood Avenue in Liberty. She was not injured.

Prosecutors expected Sheridan to enter a guilty plea and receive his sentence Tuesday. The child’s mother, however, brought the child to Sheridan’s hearing.

Court officials said the sentencing portion of the hearing could not take place because the child’s mother did not bring someone else with her to watch Nova outside of the courtroom during the hearing.

Sheridan, Nova and Nova’s mother talked pleasantly while they waited for the hearing. Before the hearing started, Nova and her mother had to leave the courtroom.

erunyan@tribtoday.com

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