Plea hearing set for alleged kidnapper October 15, 2008 9:03 AM
WHEELING, W.Va.
A Kentucky man accused of abducting and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl from Wheeling is scheduled for a federal plea hearing.
Twenty-nine-year-old Joshua Ridings of Owensboro, Ky., was scheduled to be in court in Wheeling on Wednesday afternoon. Details of the plea agreement weren't immediately available.
Ridings allegedly grabbed the girl from her North Wheeling neighborhood in February 2007 and took her into Belmont County, Ohio, where she was sexually assaulted.
Ridings escaped from Indiana's Warrick County jail early this year but was captured in Kentucky after two days on the lam.
Kentucky authorities have charged him in a 2007 attack on a woman there.
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