SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. (AP) — A Spotsylvania woman has pleaded guilty to charges that she abducted her friend's infant son.
Nineteen-year-old Ashley Herrell is scheduled to be sentenced July 8. She pleaded guilty Tuesday in Spotsylvania County Circuit Court to abduction and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
In exchange for the plea, prosecutor Crystal Montague agreed to drop a child abuse charge.
According to the plea agreement, Herrell abducted the 1-month-old boy on Sept. 18 while visiting her friend in Spotsylvania. She took the baby to Lynchburg.
She was a student at Liberty University for one semester but no longer attends the school, said LU spokesman Johnnie Moore.
Herrell turned the baby over to Lynchburg authorities later that night.
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