16
April
CALIFORNIA MAN GETS LIFE SENTENCE
Newsday/Nation Briefs
Kenneth Parnell, 72, kidnapped 7 year old Steven Staynor 30 years ago as he walked home fromschool. Parnell was arrested in January 2003 for allegedly trying to buy a 4 year old child for$500. He was convicted in 1980 of kidnapping Steven and a 5 year old boy and served 5 years and 1month in prison for the crimes, less time than Steven was kept from his family. The 1972 kidnappingof Steven and his return to his family years later was chronicled in the book and 1989 movie IKnow