Michael Devlin, 42, pleaded guilty in October to charges he forced Shawn Hornbeck, who was 11 when he was snatched in October 2002 while riding his bike, to commit sex acts so that he could photograph them.
ST. LOUIS, Missouri (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday sentenced a Missouri man to 170 years in prison for abducting two boys, including one he held and sexually assaulted for more than four years.
Michael Devlin, 42, pleaded guilty in October to charges he forced Shawn Hornbeck, who was 11 when he was snatched in October 2002 while riding his bike, to commit sex acts so that he could photograph them.
Devlin also admitted to videotaping himself having sex with the boy. He was sentenced for transporting a minor for a criminal sex act and producing child pornography.
Prosecutors had recommended a 30-year sentence on top of the 74 life sentences Devlin previously received on state charges.
!ADVERTISEMENT!U.S. District Judge Jean C. Hamilton handed him a sentence nearly six times as long.
"This federal sentence insures that, if Mr. Devlin is ever paroled from the state penitentiary, he will go directly to the federal penitentiary and stay there the rest of his life," said U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway.
Hornbeck was finally rescued in January after Devlin kidnapped another boy, 13-year-old William Ownby, and clues from that abduction led police to Devlin's suburban St. Louis apartment, where the children were discovered.
(Reporting by Carey Gillam; Editing by Xavier Briand)
