Section A·Page 6 The University Daily Kansan Wednesday, September 2, 199 $ ^{a} $ We Buy, Sell, Trade & Consign USED & New Sports Equipment 928 Mass. Downtown 843-0611 KANSAS UNION 4th Floor Gallery TODAY-FRI 9-5pm ZIK Child abductors pleaded guilty, face prison time Kidnappers receive sentence The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A 19-year woman who said she just wanted someone to love her and not leave like everybody else was sentenced yesterday to nearly six years in prison for kidnapping a newborn baby girl from a hospital. Amanda Tull pleaded guilty to kidnapping on June 1. Her boyfriend, Buddy Hall, 31, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to kidnapping. He also was sentenced to two years and three months in prison. Neither Tull nor Hall, both of Sheridan, Mo., will be eligible for parole under the sentences handed down by U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratiol. Both defendants have received psychological treatment in the past. Vratil recommended that they serve their time at a federal medical facility. The final decision will be made by the federal Bureau of Prisons. Tull had faced life in prison on the kidnapping charge, and Hall could have been sentenced to 15 years. Vrattl also sentenced Tull to five years supervised release after her sentence is served and Hall to three years following his sentence. The baby's mother, Trish Nicole Shockey, was in court yesterday with seven-months-old Carlie. "To me, the sentences are not long enough. They put us through a lot," Shockev said. in exchange for the guilty pleas, the government agreed not to oppose a request that the couple be sentenced at the low end of the sentencing guidelines. Those guidelines allow the defendants to be given a lesser prison sentence if a kidnapping victim is released within 24 hours of being taken. The government had objected to the rule being applied to this case because the baby was not released but tracked down by the FBI 23 hours after the kidnapping. Vratil overruled the government's objection and said she would allow the reduction in sentence. However, Vratil sentenced the defendants on the higher end of the sentencing guidelines because she said it would allow them more time to get the treatment they needed. Tull told the judge that she took the baby from the University of Kansas Medical Center Jan. 28 because she wanted someone to love her without question. Tull was on probation for a misdemeanor conviction at the time of the kidnapping. Mike Harris, a federal public defender representing Tull, said his client had received extensive counseling from the time she was 12 into her mid-teens because she had been sexually abused. He said Tull wanted a baby so that she could create the loving family that she never had as a child. Hall's attorney, Carl Cornwell, hall his client has psychological problems. He spent almost a year in 1986 being treated for anger control at the state hospital at St. Joseph. Cornwell said Hall was afraid of Tull and was persuaded into taking part in the kidnapping. Both defendants had been given psychiatric examinations and were found competent to stand trial before they entered their guilty pleas. "I've got no problem with the sentence," Harris said. "Buddy is comfortable with it, too. He's just wants to get help and put this thing behind him." Prosecutors said that Tull was the mastermind behind the kidnapping and that she told Hall to wait in the delivery waiting room of the hospital while she took the baby. Hall drove Tull and the baby to St. Joseph, where they bought gasoline and baby supplies and then drove to their residence in Sheridan. The next day, they drove to her mother's home in High Ridge, Mo., south of St. Louis, where FBI agents, alerted by a tip, arrested them. Ouch A First Management truck driven by Lawrence resident Josh Gammill overturned at the intersection of Haskell and 11th streets. The truck dumped cardboard boxes and wood scraps onto the sidewalk. Photo by Dan Elavsky/KANSAN California fires start dry season The Associated Press NUEVO, Calif. Wildfires started by lightning and stiff wind burned untamed throughout California yesterday after destroying dozens of homes and charring nearly 30,000 acres of brush and timber. The blaze covered 6,000 acres in the Juniper Flats area of Riverside County, destroying 100 structures, including 26 homes. "We could just look out our front door and see the fire. All of the brushes near us were on fire," said Ethel Mier as she stroked her husband's hand after their escape Monday night. "All we were able to grab was a picture of her and her father," Don Mier said. The blaze was 20 percent contained by fire lines yesterday and was being fought by nearly 600 people. There were no reports of injuries in the Juniper Flats fire about 80 miles east of Los Angeles. However, a jail inmate was killed and a firefighter was seriously injured Monday at Palmdale, in Los Angeles County, when a truck went out of work and overturned as it carried at least 11 prisoners to help fight a fire. The National Weather Service warned that the risk of fires will continue to climb, with high temperatures and thunderstorms expected to continue this week in Southern California. 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