A man who kidnapped his stepdaughter for 19 years and fathered nine children with her in Mexico and elsewhere, faces life in prison after pleading guilty earlier this month.
Henri Michelle Piette was indicted in 2017 for the kidnapping of Rosalynn Michelle McGinnis, who he took from her Oklahoma home in 1997 when she was just 11-years-old.
A jury found Piette guilty 6 June on federal charges of kidnapping and travel with intent to engage in sexual acts with a juvenile, according to federal court records in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Federal prosecutors said she gave birth to the first child in 2000, when she was just 15-years-old.
She conceived two children with Piette while she was younger than 18 and another seven after she turned 18, officials said.
The victim later managed to escape from Piette with her children in July 2016 and went to the US Consular General’s Office in Nogales, Mexico, where she secured passports for herself and the children so they could enter the US.
Piette was dating the victim’s mother at the time of the kidnapping.
He still faces state charges of first-degree rape of a victim under age 14, child abuse by injury and two counts of lewd molestation, according to Wagoner County court records.
A hearing in that case is scheduled 7 August.
No sentencing date has been made public, but Piette faces up to life in prison on the kidnapping conviction.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
