October 13, 2016
Source: stltoday.com
A Madison County man captured in West Virginia last month and accused of abducting his 13-year-old stepdaughter and her infant son has been brought back to Illinois.
Christopher M. Derleth, 39, was being held in the Madison County Jail on Wednesday morning.
Authorities say Derleth was found by authorities in a rural part of West Virginia last month with his stepdaughter Katherine Derleth and her 3-week-old son. He waived extradition there and was returned to Illinois.
Derleth is being held in Madison County in lieu of $200,000 bail on charges of aggravated kidnapping and parental abduction.
Katherine and her baby had been reported missing from a foster home in rural Madison County on Sept. 17.
The next week, West Virginia police and Madison County deputies tracked down Derleth after he used a credit card at a convenience store. Katherine and the baby were with him. They were found on Sept. 24 in a remote campsite near Kayford, a small rural mining community more than 500 miles east of St. Louis.
Two weeks before the son was born, Christopher Derleth was barred by a court order from seeing his stepdaughter pending a criminal investigation in Bond County. His stepdaughter had lived with him before the order.
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