Couple who kidnapped and sexually abused Amish girls jailed for a total of almost 900 years

A man and a woman who kidnapped and sexually abused two Amish girls in northern New York last year were sentenced on Thursday to a total of 880 years in federal prison. Nicole Vaisey admitted in May that she and her boyfriend Stephen Howells had sexually exploited the two girls, aged just six and 11, as well as four other children, who were drugged and recorded during sex acts.

Judge Glenn Suddaby sentenced both to the maximum possible terms, which prosecutors recommended – 580 years for Howells on 21 charges and 300 years for Vaisey on 10 counts.

Vaisey, 26, and Howells, 39, were caught in August 2014 after they used a puppy to lure the two young Amish girls away from their family’s roadside farm stand, where they were selling vegetables.

They then kept them captive for the next 24 hours, handcuffing them so they couldn’t run away from Howell’s home in upstate New York.

Howells sexually assaulted the children as Vaisey watched and filmed them. The couple were arrested after the girls were released the next day and left on the side of the road.

When questioned, Vaisey told police she and Howells had been out on a ‘shopping trip’ for slaves when they kidnapped the sisters that summer night.

Judge Glenn Suddaby gave the couple no credit for the release, accepting prosecutors’ theory they would have kept the girls as sex slaves if a soundproof cell in their home had been completed.

Howells told the judge that he took advantage of the inexperienced Vaisey and ‘twisted her around’ for his own sexual gratification, the Syracuse Post-Standard reported.
‘The evil that I’ve done is my own,’ he said.

Source: Daily mail